Small Business Liaison Officer / Sourcing Partner

Overview

Manage small business sourcing, contracts, compliance, and supplier relationships.

Key Responsibilities

• smartsheet management
• supplier oversight
• purchase orders
• contract negotiation
• spend validation
• sourcing process

Tasks

-Maintains Smartsheet database of diverse suppliers and conducts frequent audits to ensure accurate diversity classification records. -Provide oversight to large suppliers or Business Process Outsourcing. Ensure Business Process Outsourcing compliance with SLAs and act as the primary point of contact on all service level issues and resolution. -Coordinate with Finance for quarter/year end closing activities. -Develop a working knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulations 19.704 & 52.219-9, relative to utilization of small businesses and submission of small business subcontracting plans. -Collect and validate small business spend and upload ISR’s and SSR’s in accordance with the Small Business filing requirements. -Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with low risks and resource requirements. Explains information; developing skills to bring team members to consensus around topics within field. Conveys performance expectations and may handle sensitive issues. -Issue purchase orders to outside suppliers as needed. -Develop and disseminate training materials and information to bring internal awareness to government small business subcontracting requirements and procedures, and internal sourcing procedures. -Collaborate with other GE Vernova sites and Global Commodity Leaders as needed to understand corporate commitments, customer needs, and to achieve best results for GE Vernova. -Negotiating and finalizing contracts with suppliers, ensuring favorable terms and conditions, pricing, and delivery schedules. -Ensure sourcing procedures are followed from identifying supplier base, executing request for quotes, terms negotiations, purchase order creation and management, and accounts payable resolution.

Requirements

• sourcing
• procurement
• project management
• oracle
• smartsheet
• bachelor's

What You Bring

-Demonstrated success in working with cross-functional teams. -Must be detail-oriented and data-driven. -Uses some judgment and has the ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters to address more complicated, day-to-day problems. Has ability to prioritize information for data analysis. Uses technical experience and analytical thinking. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions. -Sourcing experience in both strategic and procurement functions and well as indirect sourcing. -Demonstrated strong project management skills. -Proactive supplier management (supplier adds, modifications, etc.) as required. -Strong quantitative and analytical skills. -For roles outside of the USA- This role requires advanced experience in the Sourcing & Supplier Management. Knowledge level is comparable to a Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college ( or a high school diploma with relevant experience). -Excellent interpersonal communication and facilitation skills with ability to influence others. -For roles in USA - Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 6 years of experience Sourcing. -Utilizes in-depth knowledge of a discipline and analytical thinking to execute policy/strategy. Basic knowledge of related job disciplines. -Experience with Federal procurement compliance and small business preferred. -Strong oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills. -Previous experience in leading teams. -Strong PC, database management skills; experience with Oracle Purchasing and Smartsheet is a plus.

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Benefits

-The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas.

About Ge Vernova

-Traces roots back to Edison and Alstom, merging power, renewable, digital & financial wings. -Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, crafts large-scale gas turbines, SMRs, wind turbines, hydro and grid tech to fuel economies. -On the nuclear front, advancing small modular reactors (like BWRX‑300) in partnership with utilities and supporting semiconductor projects. -Wind prowess spans onshore, offshore and blade making—with key sites like Dogger Bank offshore and blade plants in Spain. -Electrification arm tackles grid stability: HVDC, transformers, storage, conversion, plus GridOS software powering smarter infrastructure. -Weaves finance and consulting through energy-infrastructure investments, funding solar farms to pipelines via GE Energy Financial Services.

Sector Specialisms

Security Clearance

-any offer of employment is conditioned upon successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).