Indirect Material and Services - Commodity Buyer

Rugby, England, United Kingdom

5/12/2025

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova’s Power Conversion business provides electrification systems that are critical to customers’ power and energy needs for their high-performance applications. We work with some of the world’s major energy, maritime and industrial organizations, helping to enable a transition to energy efficiency and decarbonization, including through our specialist motors, drives and control technologies.

Job Description

Role Summary.

Working cross-functionally within the Internal cross functional teams as Indirect commodity Buyer ,responsible for full Purchasing process for commodities/families including (but not limited to) Indirect materials and services.

Responsibilities.

• Execute across the purchase base, with full accountability for meeting deflation (savings), usage, cash and preferred supplier targets, limiting/ mitigating erosions. (overspends)
• Ensure business compliance is followed, authorisations, processes, controls.
• Own the day-to-day execution of the transactional procurement process including approving, converting purchase requisitions/Eng requirements into purchase orders. Managing purchase orders, expediting, supplier monitoring, delivery schedules (NCR’s/Invoice Queries etc)
• Manage the operational relationship with suppliers.
• Expected to resolve problems through the application of experiences and expertise.
• Identify review and propose new suppliers.
• Support escalation issues for invoice payment issue resolution.
  
  

Qualifications / Requirements.

• CIPS (desirable, not essential).
• Good level of exposure and relevant experience within transactional purchasing (SAP), expediting, supply chain management. (manufacturing / engineering background preferred)
• Ability to understand purchasing contract legal terms and chair negotiations.
• Ability to review understand engineering requirements and cost/budget sub-con manufacture.
• Ability and willingness to travel if required.
• Efficient with SAP and AP systems.
  
  

Desired Characteristics;

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills.
• PC and database proficiency.
• Strong oral and written communication skills. (negotiations)
• Strong interpersonal and Influencing skills,
• Analytic capabilities and operating rigor.
• Hands-on and ability to handle multiple priorities in a high demanding environment.
• Cross-functional openness and Team-player attitude.
• Flexible can do attitude.