Principal Program Manager – Contract Margin & Cost Productivity

Job Description SummaryAs a Principal Program Manager CMR and Cost Productivity you will be responsible to lead a strategic transformation program enabling the vision of real-time Contract Margin Assessment and Cost Productivity for the Gas Power Contractual Services business line. This role will drive a cross-functional roadmap spanning business process simplification, data quality, systems integration, and workflow automation to improve margin visibility, reduce non-value added hours, and support faster, better operational and financial decisions.
This is a high-impact leadership role requiring strong partnership across IT, Finance, CSA Risk, Services Cost & Productivity, Services Operations, Commercial, and CS Business line teams. The leader will help move the organization from reactive, manual cost administration to proactive, intelligence-driven cost management and margin control.

Job DescriptionRoles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Lead the end-to-end program roadmap for real-time contract margin and cost productivity.

• Drive the vision of Integrated CS Platform by partnering with CS Value Stream and IT Product/Process Leads.

• Align business and IT stakeholders on priorities, scope, milestones, and measurable outcomes.

• Drive simplification and digitization of margin review, event cost management, commentary, and related workflows.

• Improve data quality and integration across key platforms supporting contract, event, cost, billing, and inventory processes.

• Establish strong governance, execution rigor, dependency management, and executive reporting.

• Deliver measurable improvements in productivity, margin transparency, cycle time, and manual effort reduction.

• Partners with IT Development team to ensure healthy development process.

• Mentors junior team members.

• Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organization.

• Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others.

Scope of Impact

This role will directly influence strategic initiatives tied to:

• Near real-time contract margin assessment (Advanced Modelling Platform)

• Margin review prework automation

• Event and outage cost productivity

• ConFIRM and cost classification transformation

• Commentary simplification and intelligence generation

• PIPO, BLD, and CS Inventory/parts integration

• Event data quality and contract/master data alignment

• Billing and forecasting signal improvement

• Cross-functional operating model simplification across Global Services - Finance, Risk, and Operations

Education Qualification

For roles outside USA:

Bachelor's Degree in with significant experience.

For roles in USA: Bachelor's Degree in STEM (Computer Science, IT, Math or Engineering) with minimum 10 years of experience

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college.

• Significant experience in IT program management, product/program delivery, business transformation, or enterprise systems implementation.

• Experience leading large, cross-functional, business-critical IT transformation programs in a complex matrixed environment.

• Demonstrated experience partnering across business, finance, operations, and IT organizations.

• Strong understanding of program governance, roadmap planning, dependency management, risk management, and executive stakeholder communication.

• Strong knowledge of contract margin, cost, forecasting, billing, service operations, or contract-driven business processes.

• Experience with digital transformation involving enterprise platforms, data integration, workflow automation, and analytics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in industrial, energy, services, field operations, finance transformation, or ERP-connected operational ecosystems.

• Familiarity with Contractual services applications like AMP, ConFIRM, Catalog, MyFleet, BLD and Escalation Factor

• Familiarity with SAP/Alpha ERP-connected processes, operational finance, event/project costing, and service execution workflows.

• Experience working with AI-enabled business processes, intelligent automation, or data/analytics-led process redesign.

• PMP, PgMP, Agile, Lean, or related program/project certifications are a plus.

Personal and Leadership Attributes

• Enterprise thinking: Can connect business process, data, architecture, and operating model decisions.

• Business acumen: Understands margin, cost, forecasting, and operational productivity drivers.

• Execution rigor: Turns ambiguous strategy into structured delivery with measurable outcomes.

• Influence without authority: Aligns senior stakeholders across functions with competing priorities.

• Customer mindset: Focuses on reducing frontline administrative burden and enabling better decisions at point of execution.

• Data-driven leadership: Uses metrics, controls, and facts to drive prioritization and accountability.

• Change leadership: Builds adoption and drives durable process and behavior change.

Note

Note:
To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years’ experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.
This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

Additional Information

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $135,800.00 and $226,300.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.

Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.

This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on July 08, 2026.

Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.

GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.