[Hiring] Logistics Portfolio Manager @GE Vernova

Role Description

The Logistics Portfolio Manager is responsible for leading transportation strategy, sourcing, governance, resource planning, and logistics execution across an assigned portfolio of domestic and international projects. This role supports the ITO Project Logistics Leads in developing logistics concepts, budgetary freight estimates, transportation schedules, sourcing strategies, risk assessments, and tender assumptions.

The Logistics Portfolio Manager reviews and challenges proposed logistics solutions to help ensure they are commercially competitive, operationally feasible, and aligned with project execution requirements. Following project award, the Logistics Portfolio Manager ensures the effective transition of logistics strategies, budgets, schedules, assumptions, risks, and contractual commitments from Inquiry-to-Order (ITO) to Order-to-Remittance (OTR).

The role maintains portfolio-level oversight of logistics execution, project priorities, supplier performance, transportation capacity, cost, schedule, risk, and resource requirements through final delivery. The Logistics Portfolio Manager directly leads and develops the Project Logistics Managers, Logistics Specialists, and Logistics Coordinators assigned to the portfolio.

People-leadership responsibilities include:

• Resource planning
• Workload balancing
• Coaching
• Performance management
• Capability development
• Talent planning
• Succession planning

The Logistics Portfolio Manager develops portfolio-wide transportation sourcing strategies by consolidating shipment demand across multiple projects to optimize capacity, leverage buying power, improve cost competitiveness, and strengthen the carrier network. The role oversees transportation procurement activities, including:

• RFQ development
• Carrier bid analysis
• Commercial evaluation
• Supplier capability and risk assessment
• Negotiations
• Statements of Work
• Purchase orders
• Contract performance

The position partners closely with various teams to align logistics activities with customer commitments and business objectives. Periodic domestic and international travel is required to support supplier assessments, logistics feasibility reviews, transportation planning, execution-readiness evaluations, and visits to fabrication facilities, ports, warehouses, rail facilities, and project jobsites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Minimum of 10–12 years of progressive experience in project logistics, transportation, supply chain, or a related field.
• Demonstrated people-leadership experience, including direct responsibility for employee performance, development, workload management, and resource allocation.
• Experience supporting large-scale industrial, infrastructure, energy, utility, data-center, or capital-project environments.
• Experience managing domestic and international multimodal transportation activities.
• Demonstrated experience with transportation sourcing, carrier negotiations, contract development, supplier management, and logistics execution.
• Experience managing multiple complex projects or a portfolio of projects with competing priorities, risks, and resource requirements.
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally based on business and project requirements.

Requirements

• Experience managing a portfolio of complex projects involving significant transportation spend, multiple stakeholders, and competing resource requirements.
• Strong knowledge of heavy haul, superloads, over-dimensional cargo, breakbulk ocean, rail, port operations, and multimodal transportation.
• Knowledge of customs procedures, international trade compliance, Incoterms, import and export requirements, and dangerous-goods transportation.
• Experience developing transportation strategies, carrier networks, sourcing programs, logistics budgets, and project-execution plans.
• Demonstrated ability to develop strategy and drive execution within a complex, matrixed organization.
• Proven ability to lead teams, manage performance, develop talent, and allocate resources across multiple projects and priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change, establish operating rhythms, and drive continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Strong commercial judgment and experience reviewing logistics budgets, estimates, bids, contracts, and supplier proposals.
• Strong negotiation, analytical, quantitative, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Proven project and portfolio management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results within budget and schedule requirements.
• Strong customer focus and experience supporting internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to establish, manage, forecast, and maintain operational and project logistics budgets.
• Flexible ability to travel based on business and project requirements.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• Access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling, and referral services
• GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions
• Access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants
• Tuition assistance
• Adoption assistance
• Paid parental leave
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance
• 12 paid holidays
• Permissive time off