Senior Director Program Management

Dubai Internet City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Job Description



Job Title Senior Director Program

Description

Summary GE Gas Power
Welcome to tomorrow's energy-today!
https://www.ge.com/gas-power

Access to affordable, reliable, flexible, and sustainable power is fundamental to modern life. As the world is shifting towards a lower carbon future, GE Gas Power is ready to be your partner in leveraging the role of natural gas for powering the world today and tomorrow. GE's foundations were laid by Thomas Edison nearly 130 years ago to provide innovative solutions for a wide range of critical problems around the world. GE's deep-rooted culture serves as the backbone for every step we've taken at GE Gas Power. With more than 300,000 employees and operations in over 170 countries, GE employees reflect both the local communities we serve and the people with whom we do business.

Diversity at GE
We believe diversity makes us more competitive and creates value for our customers, shareholders, and employees. We believe in the value of each person's unique identity, background, and experiences and are committed to fostering an inclusive culture, where everyone feels empowered to do their best work because they feel accepted, respected, and that they belong. By embracing diverse teams and perspectives, we are better equipped to build a world that works.

Our approach to diversity will be based on the following objectives:

  • Our employees - to continue to strive to ensure that our workforce is as diverse as the communities we serve, while always upholding the importance of merit.
  • Our workplace - to foster an inclusive culture that recognizes employees' unique needs, helps them reach their full potential, and nurtures their diverse talents.
  • Our community - to strive for diversity in suppliers and partners and engage with the communities in which we operate to support diversity.


The Senior Director- Program Management will be responsible for defining and delivering on the Digital Technology (DT) strategy for repair shops across GE Gas Power, including but not limited to digital thread. This role will be responsible for all DT program execution leadership for Supply Chain enterprise systems incl. LPM, SmartShop, Kronos, ERP and Lean program MGPP and deployment. Additionally, the leader will coordinate and lead with the CTO and CISO teams the connected machine strategy/OT strategy for contemporary repair sites. The IT leader is responsible for the delivery of highly complex cross disciplined programs that span multiple organizations, various stakeholders. This person will lead, develop the global DT team in support of the overall Supply Chain SQDC targets. Additionally, this role will also lead the digital transformation of the shop floor automation and be responsible for driving the product discovery and product delivery of the overall IT software development strategy for the GSC IT ecosystem.

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:
  • Work with the Value Stream Lean, Quality and Engineering leaders to define and execute the transformation and productivity roadmap
  • Work with the Senior Leadership teams of the factories in scope
  • Define, Plan, and Implement the Manufacturing 4.0 digital strategy leveraging cloud and cloud native strategies
  • Define and Execute the Shopfloor Digitization Program with special focus on GSC Mfg ecosystem and connected Repair lines
  • Identifies the customer need and the larger business objectives that a product or feature will fulfill; create strategic roadmap and translates business strategy into product strategy & work with customers/stakeholders to prioritize needs
  • Articulates what success looks like for a product and rallies a team to turn that vision into a reality
  • Collaborate with software development teams to establish standard software delivery processes and rigor, implementing lean and agile in parallel
  • Establish and Operationalize a framework that encourages innovation in all digital solutions development and deployments
  • Evangelize new opportunities possible with technology investment; challenge status quo and drive data/digital disruption
  • Lead and Coach the product discovery and delivery managers and teams
  • Support the daily operations, maintenance and continuous improvement of the Repair sites' digital products/solutions
  • Work with the Regional CTO Leaders to ensure infrastructure and equipment that's needed for repair shops and the supply chain user base
  • Plan and track budget needed for operations and investment to support the above mentioned priorities
  • Control and ensure the compliance of the vendor management that's needed to deliver the priorities
  • Lead cross-discipline, global teams to establish an integrated plan to deliver team commitments
  • Leverage your domain expertise; you are expected to further the knowledge and improve productivity of your colleagues with activities such as creating learning content, sharing best practices across sites digital products and processes, and supporting a continuous learning culture.
Required Qualifications/Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
  • A minimum of 10 years of experience along with established leadership credentials across disciplines such as ERP, MES, Supply Chain digitization, IT Transformation, and IT Project/ Program Management.
  • Significant years of professional experience in Software Development Project Management including large portfolio leading cross functional initiatives and organizations
  • Willingness and ability to travel
  • Must be willing to work out of key GE office located in the country/region
Desired Qualifications
  • Demonstrated ability of working with executive-level stakeholders to define, lead, and implement process and tools strategy to drive process improvement changes.
  • GE Leadership Program Graduates will get credit towards relevant work experience, commensurate to the program they have completed
  • Strong track record of understanding and interest in current and emerging technologies demonstrated through training, job experience and / or industry activities
  • Demonstrated customer focus - evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer, builds strong customer relationships, creates processes with customer viewpoint and partners with customers to help shape their future initiatives
  • Demonstrated ability to establish operational performance metrics and drive continuous efficiencies and improvements for systems, processes, and resources
  • Proven leadership experience managing large global teams across multiple functional disciplines.
  • Ability to develop partnership with cross functional teams and develop an inclusive & collaborative environment.
  • Applies knowledge to coach and mentor others
  • Change oriented - actively generates process improvements, champions and drives change initiatives, confronts difficult circumstances in creative ways, balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly
  • Track record of driving DT innovation and technology-driven business outcomes
  • Experience managing budgets including annual budgets and large-scale projects
  • Excellent influencing, interpersonal and communications skills (both written and verbal) with all levels of an organization. Ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
  • Uses critical thinking skills and disciplined approaches to help leaders and leadership teams resolve issues and define solutions
  • Influences and energizes others toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal in the face of unfavorable odds and setbacks
  • Demonstrated experience to positively lead teams through significant change
  • Strong analytical and strong problem-solving skills; communicates in a clear and succinct manner and effectively evaluates information / data to make decisions, anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve, creates actionable strategies and operational plans
  • Six Sigma certified
  • PMP, Scrum Master or related Project Management certification
  • Commitment, Perseverance, Passion
Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1465058
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Dubai Internet City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Education
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