Senior Sales Manager
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GE Vernova is recruiting a Senior Sales Manager to lead strategic commercial growth for its Gas Power portfolio across Nigeria, Ghana, and the wider Sub-Saharan African market. The remote, full-time role focuses on complex OCGT and CCGT gas-turbine opportunities, stakeholder relationships, negotiation, and market risk.
- Remote, full-time role focused on GE Vernova's Gas Power portfolio.
- Leads commercial growth across Nigeria, Ghana, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Drives complex OCGT and CCGT gas-turbine opportunities.
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GE Vernova is recruiting a Senior Sales Manager to lead strategic commercial growth for its Gas Power portfolio across Nigeria, Ghana, and the wider Sub-Saharan African market. The remote, full-time role focuses on complex OCGT and CCGT gas-turbine opportunities, stakeholder relationships, negotiation, and market risk.
- Remote, full-time role focused on GE Vernova's Gas Power portfolio.
- Leads commercial growth across Nigeria, Ghana, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Drives complex OCGT and CCGT gas-turbine opportunities.
- Builds relationships with utilities, EPCs, investors, lenders, ministries, and regulators.
- Requires autonomy, executive presence, and strong commercial judgment.
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Senior Sales Manager at GE Vernova (Remote)
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GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification segments and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 140+ countries around the world. GE Vernova’s Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas-powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that aim to help electrify a lower carbon future.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Sales Manager
Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time
Job ID: R5055711
Job Description Summary
The Senior Sales Manager will provide strategic commercial leadership and drive profitable growth for GE Vernova’s Gas Power portfolio across Nigeria, Ghana, and the broader Sub-Saharan Africa market.
The role will lead to the pursuit and conversion of complex power-generation opportunities spanning heavy-duty and aeroderivative gas turbine solutions in OCGT and CCGT configurations.
As a senior customer-facing commercial leader, the incumbent will shape winning strategies, influence commercial operating frameworks and budgets, and negotiate and execute commercial arrangements within established functional policies.
Success requires a high degree of autonomy, executive presence, and sound commercial judgment to deliver sustainable business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Navigate regulatory, macroeconomic, and energy-market complexity with agility, proactively managing risk and translating market dynamics into sustainable growth opportunities.
- Build and sustain strategic relationships with IPPs, utilities, EPCs, investors and lenders, government ministries, and regulators across Nigeria and Ghana to strengthen market position and advance long-term growth.
- Own the full commercial lifecycle—from opportunity identification and value proposition development through complex negotiations, contracting, and financial close.
- Mobilize application engineering, commercial operations, finance, legal, and product teams to develop competitive, executable, and winning customer solutions.
- Define and execute the sales strategy for Nigeria, Ghana, and priority emerging markets, aligned with GE Vernova’s broader EMEA commercial objectives.
- Leverage deep HDGT and aeroderivative expertise to shape differentiated OCGT and CCGT solutions that address customer priorities for efficiency, reliability, and value.
- Required Qualifications
- Willingness to travel 50–60% across the region to strengthen customer relationships, shape opportunities, and advance strategic priorities.
- Sustained record of delivering against growth and revenue commitments, including the successful closure of major capital-equipment and long-term service agreements.
- Minimum 12 years of progressive sales and commercial leadership in power generation or utility-scale infrastructure, including 8+ years in senior leadership roles.
- Proven ability to lead effectively within global matrix organizations and navigate high-value, high-stakes opportunities across volatile and emerging markets.
- Demonstrated expertise in heavy-duty gas turbine (HDGT) and aeroderivative technologies, with strong knowledge of OCGT and CCGT system design and applications.
- Master’s Degree in mechanical/electrical engineering in a recognized university.
- Desired Characteristics:
- Strong influencing, interpersonal, leadership, and project-management capabilities.
- MBA Degree is highly desirable.
- Established network across developers, EPCs, investors, and financial institutions.
- Strong working knowledge of gas turbine (GT) and total-plant performance calculations.
- Strong customer orientation, with the ability to anticipate priorities and respond with speed and commercial discipline.
- Demonstrated agility in adapting sales strategies to evolving political, economic, and market conditions.
- Broad understanding of electrical and mechanical Balance of Plant (BoP), including generators, HRSGs, steam turbines (STs), and generator step-up transformers (GSUTs).
- Ability to translate market intelligence and competitive insights into clear, actionable commercial strategies.
- Exceptional influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder-management capabilities, with the ability to articulate complex technical and commercial value propositions to senior decision-makers.
- Excellent understanding of project development from initiation to financial close.
- Strong analytical capability in project financing, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) modelling, feasibility and Cost of Electricity (COE) analysis, and risk mitigation.
- Proven ability to align, energize, and lead cross-functional teams toward competitive customer solutions and successful business outcomes.
- Resilient, proactive, and accountable leadership style, with a strong ownership mindset in uncertain and complex markets.
- Additional Information:
- Relocation Assistance Provided: No
- How to Apply
- Interested and qualified candidates should:
- Click here to apply online
- Application Deadline:
- 7th November, 2026.
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