Global Business Manager - Travel, Fleet & Meetings

Job Description Summary

The Global Business Manager will play a critical role within GE Vernova’s Sourcing organization, supporting the effective global management of Corporate Travel, Fleet, and Meetings & Events. These categories are essential enablers for our engineering, field operations, commercial teams, and project deployment activities around the world.

In support of GE Vernova’s mission to electrify and decarbonize the world, this role will drive functional excellence, deliver meaningful insights, enhance governance, and strengthen operational performance across global programs. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical capability, advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, exceptional communication, and the ability to operate with a lean, structured roadmap. Proven experience in presenting to senior leadership, up to C-suite level, is essential.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Business Operations

• Lead global business management activities for Travel, Fleet, and Meetings & Events, ensuring alignment to GE Vernova’s operational strategy, sourcing priorities, and GE Vernova way principles.
• Manage a disciplined, lean roadmap of initiatives that focus on productivity, compliance, safety, simplification, and sustainability.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, providing concise insights, trend analysis, and recommendations that support strong operational outcomes across GE Vernova’s businesses.

Analytics, Reporting & Executive Storytelling

• Build and maintain analytics tools and dashboards using advanced Excel (modelling, Power Query, automation) to track financial performance, operational KPIs, and sustainability metrics such as travel emissions and fleet efficiency.
• Develop high-quality, executive-ready PowerPoint presentations for reviews with the Global Leadership Team, Enterprise leaders, and other C-suite stakeholders.
• Support governance cycles, including QBRs, MBRs, CFO reviews, and productivity tracking.

Project & Program Management

• Lead or support global cross-functional projects that enhance GE Vernova’s mobility and meetings programs, including digital enablement, policy harmonization, supplier performance, and process improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate efforts across regions, business units, and functional partners to ensure consistent execution and measurable performance.
• Drive disciplined project management, including charters, risk assessments, milestones, and stakeholder communication.

Stakeholder & Supplier Engagement

• Partner closely with leaders across GE Vernova—including Finance, EHS, HR, Operations, Treasury, and IT—to ensure business needs are met across all categories.
• Support supplier management activities, ensuring alignment with GE Vernova’s standards for safety, ESG, operational reliability, and performance.
• Represent the Travel, Fleet & Meetings function in global forums, leadership reviews, and supplier engagements.

Skills & Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in Sourcing, Procurement, Business Management, or Program Management, preferably within a global industrial, energy, or engineering organization.
• 8-10years experience with indirect commodity management (travel, fleet, mobility, or meetings categories) in a global setting.
• Direct experience managing complex global change management initiatives.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel (data modelling, advanced formulas, Power Query, automation).
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint, with proven success in creating senior leadership–level presentations.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to drive a lean roadmap and deliver results across multiple initiatives to meet agreed deadlines.
• Exceptional communication, written and verbal, with ability to influence at all levels.
• Comfortable working in a global environment with cross-functional stakeholders.
• A strong “can do” attitude and pro-active solutions approach.

Personal Attributes

• Operates with a founder’s mindset: bold, curious, and comfortable challenging convention.
• Strong analytical and critical thinker with the ability to simplify complexity.
• Collaborative, solutions-oriented, and effective in i