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Commercial Excellence Manager

Employer
GE Aviation
Location
London
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
16 May 2021

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Clearance Level
SC, None / Undisclosed
Sector
Aerospace
Job Type
Permanent
Job Description Summary In this role, the Commercial Excellence Manager will drive all aspects of the Commercial Excellence framework. They will work closely with Regional Sales Representatives, Sales Managers, and Commercial Leadership to optimize commercial processes and identify opportunities to leverage analytics and digital tools to increase sales productivity and growth. They will also partner with key technology and engineering teams to develop and build strategic roadmaps for the next generation of Commercial Excellence tools and capabilities. This role will also be expected to provide strategic viewpoints and actions to leadership, in partnership with marketing, finance, and other functional teams to drive change and growth.

Job Description GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world. 

ResponsibilitiesIn this role, you will:
  • Develop deep commercial expertise across one or more regions, business units, markets, sales processes, and/or customer groups. Uses prior experience and acquired commercial expertise to execute on strategic imperatives and deliver outcomes
  • Partner with sales managers, field sales personnel, and sales enablement leaders to evaluate and define gold standard in functional processes using Lean methodology
  • Assist in the roll-out of new concepts and processes for strategic initiatives
  • Leverage expertise and communication skills to drive deployments and oversee initiatives to the regions
  • Work closely with stakeholders and partners to define, measure, and improve Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to drive improvement of processes and digital tool value
  • Act as a strategic partner to Commercial Leadership and digital engineering teams to provide process and voice of customer (VoC) insights and defined actions, based upon interactions with field end users and interpretation of data
  • Utilize available reporting stack (Salesforce.com, Einstein Analytics) to design/utilize reports and dashboards to provide commercial intelligence and insight, in partnership with Digital engineering & technical product management teams
  • Act as a key subject matter expert for how the business utilizes commercial tools that are in your scope.
  • Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs. Engage frequently with end users & stakeholders to provide solutions aligned to persona needs
  • Provides informal guidance to new team members. Explains complex information to others in straightforward manner
  • Demonstrate expert level skill in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity
  • Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer/stakeholders, technical product managers, and development team
  • Demonstrate excelling business acumen, know latest industry trends, and is considered an internal expert on the processes and products as well as the associated competitive landscape
  • Actively measure and review adoption/usage for key products and partner with technical product managers to ensure feature/product alignment to business process & benefit/outcome. Drive measurement of these outcomes through W2W product lifecycle
  • Mentor junior team members

Qualifications/Requirements
  • Advanced experience in Sales & Commercial Excellence.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a business administration related computer field
  • Excellent problem solving/analytical capabilities
  • Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
  • Must be willing to travel (Approx. 25%)
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office software
  • Experience working with Commercial tools such as Salesforce.com and Apttus
  • Experience with Business Intelligence or Data Visualization tools
  • Experience working with a field sales force and/or with Commercial processes
  • Experience with Aha, Rally or similar tools
  • Familiar with Agile Methodology

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
  • Certified Lean Expert, Black Belt or Master Black Belt (and/or experience working with Lean principles)
  • Proven ability to be both strategic and tactical
  • Aptitude in critical thinking and problem solving
  • Strong teamwork and collaboration skills
  • Background in influencing cross-functional teams toward execution of a strategic initiative
  • Independent, self-directed, with a strong attention to detail
  • In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. Ability to understand how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the overall initiative success
  • Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate approaches to solving problems; able to think creatively to find solutions
  • Skilled in breaking down problems and documenting problem statements in easy to understand form

Business Acumen:
  • Background in influencing cross-functional teams toward execution of a strategic initiative.  Experience working with a field sales force
  • Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders/partners and communicate a single synthesized perspective to technical teams. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders

Leadership:
  • Relentlessly pursues a better way; adopts Lean mindset to constantly look for improvement & optimization opportunities within product space and broader
  • Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making. Understands when change is needed. Participates in functional and business strategy planning
  • Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

Personal Attributes:  
  • Able to effectively direct others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices
  • Influences and energizes others toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
  • Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work

GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. 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.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you'd expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you'll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, under the applicable UK immigration rules as may be in place from time to time, it may be that candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled candidate who does not require sponsorship is available to take up the post. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

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Additional Information Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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