In this role; You'll be accountable for achieving commitments, orders, margin, convertibility, and cash flow targets while contributing to long-term business strategy and fostering team excellence.
This role will provide you with an opportunity to grow your strategic, commercial, operational and people leadership skill sets with an acute gas power technical expertise to support the contractual agreement strategicallyJob DescriptionKey Responsibilities:
Develop and implement comprehensive sales strategies aligned with company goals.
Identify market trends, opportunities, and threats to inform sales strategies.
Lead, mentor, and motivate the sales team to deliver on targets.
Attract, develop, coach and retain talent.
Champion the Vernova Way as the cultural north star within the sales organization.
Own and deliver on operational plans including commitments, orders, convertibility, cash, price expansion and contribution margin while managing GEV risk exposure.
Lead portfolio, account and market reviews to analyze installed base, ensure visibility to outage opportunities and commercial participation to identify areas of emerging opportunities, resource adequacy and competitive pressures.
Provide deal team leadership from strategy development through the evaluation, formulation, and delivery of winning proposals.
Cultivate long-term relationships with customers focused on mutual success and long-term impact.
Understand customers’ markets and business models, organization, decision making process and drivers.
Ensure customer satisfaction and issue resolution in close partnership with OTR peers
Utilize Lean tools and resources, lead continuous improvement efforts and support team in driving out waste.
Continuously evaluate and improve sales processes to ensure quality and on time delivery of commercial offerings and deliverables.
Lead account team activities, rally around & be accountable for customer satisfaction, issue resolution and responsiveness
Leverage customer network & customer knowledge to assist other GEV businesses with access, opportunity identification, strategy development and deal development.
Provide forecasts to fulfillment teams to ensure preparedness for market demand (SIOP process).
Continuously map customer Outages, KPI´s, priorities and update respective internal systems to ensure alignment and information flows across the business.
Provide feedback to Product and Business Lines regarding product improvement needs in the region including but not limited to new product development, product enhancements, increased service capabilities, resource adequacy and or commercial innovation.
Provide market feedback and collaborate with the Business Intelligence organization to enhance GEV market intelligence including competitive environment, win / loss insights and barriers / enablers to growth.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical discipline from an accredited university or college or equivalent knowledge/experience.
Minimum of 10 years of experience in the Power Generation industry with technical knowledge of power plant equipment - gas turbine, steam turbine, or generator.
Minimum of 5 years of commercial, marketing, or operational experience, preferably in the gas business
Minimum of 2 years of experience managing/leading experienced Industry professionals.
Other Eligibility: Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% of the time, or more as required. Relocation as needed within the USA / No sponsorship offered.
Desired Candidate & Characteristics:
If you are ...
Someone who is passionate, purpose-driven dedicated to our customers, markets, services and technology with the Energy to Change the World!
Enthusiastic advocate invested in our customers, who defines success over the long term and look for mutually beneficial outcomes.
Strategic bringing extensive commercial and operational leadership, leads by example with clear thinking, and ability to foresee & understand risks, prioritizes and proactively develops effective solutions.
A Leader with strong interpersonal skills, and a clear and effective communicator, with strong presentation and negotiation skills, capable of working at all levels of the organization, someone who is comfortable on the turbine deck and the board room.
Someone with experience in lean principles, standard work approach, Sales & opportunity management tools and previous Profit & Loss (P&L) experience, capable of short and long-term business planning.
A People Leader who has demonstrated experience working as one team, working cross functionally and beyond the scope of their direct responsibilities to deliver customer outcomes, while driving continuous improvement, and High-impact with impact with eliminating waste.
GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $151,400.00 and $252,200.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: sales incentive.
This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on September 12, 2026.
Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
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