Platform Leader

Platform Leader - Emerging Sciences & Technologies - Aerospace Research

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The GE Aerospace Research Programs Office connects the business, product, and technology needs of GE Aerospace and its customers, including the U.S. Government, with the technical workforce within the research center to provide differentiated solutions. As the Emerging Sciences & Technologies Platform Leader, you will partner with GE Aerospace Research technical and leadership teams to ensure efficient utilization of R&D resources and alignment to near-, mid-, and far‑field priorities. You will support the Director of the Programs Office in balancing and optimizing the overall research portfolio mix across multiple stakeholder groups, including GE Aerospace, industry customers, partners, and U.S. Government agencies.

As a Platform Leader, you will manage dedicated coordination and sensing rhythms with GE Aerospace and external customers, ensuring strong connectivity to emerging and challenging needs. You will foster collaboration among appropriate Research teams, harmonize efforts by developing a unified Platform growth pathway embraced by both internal and external stakeholders, and translate customer needs into actionable research programs, launch initiatives, and facilitate technology transfer to end markets across the aerospace sector. You will identify, engage with, and assess novel areas of scientific and technological development through the lenses of disruption and opportunity, elevate awareness of emerging fields, and architect pathways to capitalize on transformational capabilities. Additionally, you will partner across the Research Center to collectively own customer relationships, serving as primary customer contacts for access to the research center.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Build, coordinate, and own the planning, funding, and pursuit of external contracts on behalf of the Platform Leader project portfolio to deliver capabilities and solutions for customers.
• Connect the Research team to customer challenges and help build cross‑organizational teams to solve them.
• Ensure vitality of existing technology programs while creating new relationships across the business; champion and communicate customer needs, urgency, and general business situation to the research center.
• Define product and technical differentiation roadmaps and inform long‑term technical strategies with the business, technology, and product management leaders in GE Aerospace.
• Identify key Aerospace Research technical competencies vital to the business and work with the research center’s technical leadership on resource planning and to identify and apply key internal and external technologies.
• Understand the business product portfolio and link customer needs to technical programs that will better serve the customer.
• Be a value‑add partner in strategy planning processes; establish Aerospace Research technologists as vital strategic partners in business planning.
• Host internal and external visitors at the Research Centers as partners to see the future through collaborative engagements.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to understand and shape technology development opportunities that deliver value to governmental customers.
• Provide insights on technical demand and skill sets to Operations Leaders and site leadership, enabling them to architect growth plans.
• Support program accountability: monitor execution on key customer projects; identify and facilitate cross‑lab tradeoffs as required; be alert to and assist on key customer deliverables.
• Prioritize and drive adoption of critical technologies and innovations from the research center into the GE Aerospace business or into complementary third‑party partners.
• Manage customer relationships and actively seek feedback to ensure needs are met and the process continuously improves.
• Recruit, grow, and develop talent to orchestrate cross‑pollination between GE Aerospace and the Aerospace Research Center.

Required Qualifications

• Doctorate or Master’s Degree in Science or Engineering and 10 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Strong technical background with a proven history of project and program management and an in‑depth knowledge of GE application portfolio.
• Highly organized with the ability to monitor and manage multiple efforts and priorities effectively.