Competitiveness Operational Leader

Job Description Summary

Vernova Purpose

Come and join our powerful force with the energy of change.
Our mission is big. Our transformation is key - bringing the right businesses together to lead the energy transition.

In Grid Automation, our mission is to enable the energy transition by providing the real time digital technology to monitor, protect and control increasingly complex electrical networks, and supporting our customer's Grid Modernization effort, Renewable integration acceleration, Industries electrification needs, and overall energy demand increase.

Job Description

Job available in multiple locations: India, others (Paris, London, Sao Paulo, Bilbao)

What impact you'll make

As a Competitiveness Operational Leader in Grid Automation, you will drive sustainable margin growth and operational excellence. You'll partner with leaders across Regions, R&D, Global Supply Chain, Product Lines, Sourcing, Lean, and more to identify, prioritize, and deliver high-impact cost and productivity initiatives that improve project execution, product margin expansion, and overall business performance.

The Competitiveness and Transformation function accelerates value creation by focusing on:

• Execution and operational efficiency - faster, leaner project/service delivery and major factory productivity gains
• Product and portfolio cost leadership - targeted optimization across solutions, software, and hardware through value engineering, should-cost modelling, and competitive teardowns
• Sourcing and supply chain deflation - consistent cost reductions and strategic supplier value capture
• Transformational change - high-impact programs that reshape cost structures and capabilities, while maintaining strict alignment with customer/shareholder priorities and Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC)

• Partnering closely with the Grid Automation Competitiveness leader to deploy and execute cross-functional competitiveness strategies and priorities across the Grid Automation organization.
• Developing robust financial models-including sensitivity analysis-and capacity planning tools to provide clear, data-driven guidance for high-stakes strategic decisions.
• Collaborating with the Grid Automation Operations team to align initiatives with business line vision, goals, and performance targets.
• Building and presenting compelling business cases that quantify trade-offs in ROI, capex, capacity utilization, risk, efficiency, resiliency, and flow-leveraging system optimization thinking to inform executive decisions.
• Leading or supporting program and project management efforts as needed to execute Grid Automation's strategic cost-out initiatives and deliver measurable savings.
• Establishing and continuously improving the Competitiveness team's standard work, strategy frameworks, and performance tools through rigorous data collection, analysis, and closed-loop feedback with cross-functional partners.
• Championing and embedding the GE Vernova Way-driving innovation, customer focus, lean mindset, One Team collaboration, and accountability-into all function practices and ways of working.

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited University or College in Engineering, Finance or Business Administration
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant Project Management, Cost-Out, Finance or Lean experience
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and working with and presenting to stakeholders at senior level.
• Strong interpersonal, influencing and leadership skills.
• Strong quantitative and data analysis skills, attention to details and real interest in exploring to make informative data driven decisions.
• Transformational change leader, who excels in change management.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to balance thought leadership, continuous learning, and improvement with demonstrated results.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to ~50% of the time.
• Excellent communication (oral/written) experience, working and influencing cross-culturally in large, matrixed organizations.

• Master's degree or business administration (MBA)
• Prior GE leadership program experience, such as OMLP, FMP, CAS
• Consulting expertise
• Lean expertise
• Strong project management and process improvement skills.
• Results-oriented and ability to energize and influence others challenging the status quo.