Key Responsibilities
S&M Cost & Headcount Management (Primary Focus)
- Own and manage S&M budgets and headcount (Sales, Marketing, Product Management) ensuring alignment with business priorities and growth objectives.
- Drive headcount planning, forecasting, and governance, including hiring plans, backfills, productivity assumptions, and workforce trade-offs.
- Track and analyze S&M spend and headcount versus budget and plan, providing clear visibility into run-rate, risks, and opportunities.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Product leaders to balance cost discipline with commercial effectiveness and capability needs.
- Lead S&M cost and headcount optimization initiatives, including span/layer reviews, role prioritization, and discretionary spend control.
- Support operating plan, forecast, and budget cycles, including labor, contractor, and discretionary spend.
G&A Financial and Headcount Support
- Provide financial and headcount planning support for G&A functions, ensuring consistent SG&A governance and reporting.
- Coordinate with Finance and HR to support workforce planning, approvals, and compliance with internal policies.
- Support enterprise-wide cost and headcount actions, including restructuring or productivity initiatives, as applicable.
Project Execution & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Lead and execute strategic and operational projects across S&M and G&A functions, from concept through implementation.
- Define project scope, milestones, timelines, and success metrics aligned with GRIDSW strategic objectives.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams (Sales, Marketing, Product, Finance, HR, IT) to ensure disciplined execution and timely delivery.
- Identify and manage project risks, dependencies, and change impacts.
Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Act as a trusted business partner to S&M and G&A leaders, providing data-driven insights on cost, headcount, and productivity.
- Prepare and present clear financial, workforce, and project updates to senior leadership.
- Support decision-making through scenario modeling, business cases, and impact analysis.
Governance & Continuous Improvement
- Establish and maintain governance mechanisms for SG&A cost and headcount management.
- Improve cost, headcount, and productivity transparency through enhanced reporting and dashboards.
- Drive continuous improvement in planning accuracy, forecasting, and execution discipline.
- Support change management to ensure sustainable adoption of new processes and tools.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5–8 years of experience in SG&A management, workforce planning, finance, operations, or project management.
- Proven experience managing budgets and headcount within Sales, Marketing, and/or Product organizations.
- Strong understanding of workforce planning concepts, labor cost drivers, and productivity metrics.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment.
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- MBA or Master’s degree.
- Experience in software, digital, energy, or industrial technology businesses.
- Project management or Agile certification (PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, Scrum).
- Experience supporting global, multi-region commercial organizations.
- SG&A cost and headcount governance
- Commercial and workforce planning acumen
- Project and change leadership
- Stakeholder partnership and influence
- Analytical problem-solving
- Continuous improvement mindset
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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What We Do
GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to decarbonize it.
If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different.
Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver.
GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life.
Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.
Why Work With Us
Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.
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