The Project Logistics Strategy Manager plays a critical role in driving efficiency, cost optimization, and resilience in the supply chain in ITO and OTR. Your responsibilities extend beyond daily operations to long-term strategy, innovation, and risk management.
A strategic logistics leader is not just about moving goods from point A to B; they are a key driver of business profitability, customer satisfaction, and supply chain resilience.
Responsibilities:
Essential functions/ responsibilities
The key roles and responsibilities include:
1. ITO Logistics Leadership & Governance
Provide leadership and oversight to ITO Logistics Specialists responsible for developing Level 1 logistics concepts, budgetary freight estimates, transportation schedules, and tender logistics assumptions.
Review, challenge, and approve logistics plans, freight estimates, schedules, and risk assessments to ensure solutions are commercially competitive, operationally feasible, and executable.
2. Transportation Procurement & Carrier Management
Partner with Project Execution teams to validate final shipment scope, transportation requirements, delivery schedules, and logistics execution requirements following project award.
Conduct bid tab analyses, commercial evaluations, and carrier assessments, including capability reviews, risk evaluations, and cost comparisons.
3. Execution Readiness & Logistics Transition
4. Carrier Network Development & Strategic Sourcing
Identify, evaluate, and onboard transportation providers supporting specialized project cargo, heavy haul, over-dimensional, breakbulk, and multimodal transportation requirements.
5. Cost Optimization, Risk Management & Performance
Monitor and report on key logistics performance indicators, including freight spend, carrier performance, on-time delivery, transit times, lead times, and service levels.
6. Digital Tools, Analytics & Continuous Improvement
Support standardization of logistics processes, planning tools, governance practices, and operational reporting.
7. Cross-Functional Leadership
Partner with Commercial, Engineering, Sourcing, Procurement, Project Management, Corporate Logistics, and Logistics Operations teams to align logistics activities with business objectives.
Support development of standardized logistics governance, KPI management, operational reporting, and best practices across logistics functions.
Qualifications/Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field.
Experience supporting large-scale industrial, infrastructure, energy, or capital project environments.
Experience supporting large-scale energy, utility, data center, or infrastructure program environments involving high transportation spend and complex project execution requirements.
Strong knowledge of heavy haul, super loads, over-dimensional, breakbulk, and multimodal transportation operations.
We deliver integrated project solutions to enable large scale electrification and support our customer needs.
Come bring your energy to change the world!
Grid Solutions, part of the GE Vernova portfolio of energy businesses, serves customers globally with over 12,000 employees. Grid Solutions provides equipment, systems, and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. We electrify the world with advanced grid technologies and accelerate the energy transition.
GE Vernova, a dynamic accelerator comprised of our Power, Renewable Energy, Digital and Energy Financial Services businesses, is focused on leading a new era of energy - electrifying the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it.
If you are ready to make a difference and usher in a new era of energy, come join us.
Why we come to work:
Grid Solutions is serving customers globally with over 20,000 employees in around 80 countries. Grid Solutions equips 90% of power utilities worldwide to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to the end power consumers. Grid Solutions offers advanced products and services ranging from power electronics, high voltage equipment, automation & protection, software solutions to projects & services. As part of Projects & Service, GS provides Turnkey Projects & Consulting, Electrical Balance of Plant, HV substations and maintenance & asset management. Currently GS has a $8B backlog (11,000 projects).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
#LI-Remote - This is a remote position
