**Job Description Summary**: Drive quality for assigned suppliers, including quality plan implementation. This person will be the interface between GE infrastructure department's internal customers and on-site suppliers such as cafeteria, vending machines, warehouse services, and other suppliers. Own supplier results, monitors KPIs, drive improvements utilizing supplier scorecards. Own supplier audits, ensuring compliance, and driving improvement plans where needed. In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
Person responsible for assuring the execution of supplier services on-site in accordance with the GE's quality standards and policies.
**Roles and Responsibilities**
- Manage supplier development including assisting key suppliers towards QA. Support suppliers in reaching optimum quality and industrial standards of excellence.
- Drive quality for assigned suppliers including cafeteria, warehouse, vending machines, security guards services among others.
- Developing in-depth knowledge of a discipline. Uses prior experience and acquired expertise to execute functional policy/strategy.
- A job at this level is likely to be an individual contributor, with proven interpersonal skills. Communication with direct colleagues and the business about design and coordination services rendered. Provides informal guidance to new team members. Explains complex information to others in straightforward situations.
- Impacts projects, processes and procedures in own field. The role operates with some autonomy, but is focused on execution of activities/provision of advice within an enabling discipline covered by standard functional practices and procedures. Activities require professional judgment, but may require more senior levels of guidance.
- Utilizes technical expertise and judgement to solve problems. Leverages technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems. May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.
**Required Qualifications**
- Proven experience managing suppliers
- Solid negotiation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Intermediate English communication
- This role requires advanced experience in the Supplier Quality Development.
- Bachelor's degree.
**Desired Characteristics**
- 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.
- Experience managing cafeterias' suppliers
- Project management skills
**Additional Information**:
**Relocation Assistance Provided**:No
