Serving customers globally with over 20,000 employees in around 80 countries. Equips 90% of power utilities worldwide to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to the end power consumers. They offer advanced products and services ranging from power electronics, high voltage equipment, automation & protection, software solutions to projects & services. As part of Projects & Service, GS provides Turnkey Projects & Consulting, Electrical Balance of Plant, HV substations and maintenance & asset management. Currently, GS has a $8B backlog (11,000 projects).
Overview:
The Solution Owner is accountable for the competitiveness of the reference solution, leads action plans, involving engineering teams, sourcing and procurement teams and operation teams to bring commercially and operationally quantifiable benefits to the specific solution.
A reference solution’ is a baselined design which encompasses the best practices from previous projects. The solution encompasses all elements of a converter station; strategic, technical, and commercial.
The ‘solution’ is not a prescriptive ‘one size only’ design but, rather, emphasises on selling and then building an overall solution that provides the lowest risk by focusing on known business abilities whilst both minimising and managing that which is new.
The solution encompasses the entire life cycle of a converter station from pre-tender to refurbishment/decommissioning. The Solution Owner will be expected to actively engage with external activities (Cigre, IEC, conferences, etc.) in order to promote GE and its capabilities aligned with the business unit.
Strategic:
Technical solution definition based on customer needs analysis
Monitor market expectations and competition actions/innovations
Understand portfolio related to the solution and freedom to operate
Recommend major R&D investments as necessary to follow market divergence
Technical gap management (make or buy) R&D requirements definition to maintain and/or develop the solution+ CI
Technical:
Chair technical change management reviews Drive co-ordination between business functions Product care liaison
Commercial:
Cost review and challenge scope definition between GE and partners Programme review and challenge
Personnel:
Build market-place visibility through external engagement