Job Description Summary

The Regulatory Engagement Strategy Leader is responsible for managing the relationship framework with key regulatory bodies, government entities, and trade associations to ensure advancement of GE’s Aerospace’s strategic priorities, freedom to operate, mitigate emerging risks, and influence the evolution of regulatory frameworks. This role works in robust partnership with GE Government Relations, leveraging their connections to identify ways governments and regulators can influence and amplify GE Aerospace’s strategic goals. By driving horizontal collaboration and thought leadership, the Regulatory Engagement Strategy Leader ensures alignment between regulatory priorities and business strategic goals, and partners to curate appropriate and aligned messaging across the engagement roadmap to achieve GE Aerospace’s key objectives.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities:

Strategic Partnership with GE Government Relations:

• Collaborate closely with GE Government Relations to leverage their established connections with governments, regulators, and industry groups.
• Integrate Government Relations’ insights and relationships into the regulatory engagement strategy to amplify GE Aerospace’s voice and influence in critical forums.
• Partner to identify priority governments, regulators, and industry groups for engagement, ensuring alignment with business priorities.

Relationship Framework Management:

• Develop a framework for operating that builds and maintains collaborative relationships with key regulatory bodies, government entities, and trade associations to ensure freedom to operate and mitigate emerging risks.
• Act as a central architect of GE Aerospace’s regulatory engagement framework, ensuring alignment with business priorities and strategic goals.

Global Regulatory Strategy Development:

• Monitor the evolving global regulatory environment to identify opportunities for engagement and influence.
• Develop and execute strategies to proactively engage with regulators and industry groups, ensuring alignment with GE Aerospace’s strategic priorities.

Proactive Engagement and Thought Leadership:

• Work closely with type and production certification strategist and the ODA to provide thought leadership to initiatives which shape the evolution of regulatory frameworks in alignment with business goals.
• Architect proactive engagement strategies that amplify GE Aerospace’s voice and influence in critical forums.

Horizontal Collaboration and Integration:

• Drive cross-functional collaboration to align regulatory engagement strategies across the enterprise.
• Partner horizontally to identify key areas of strategic regulatory promotion and risk mitigation in certification and safety.

Strategic Messaging and Content Development:

• Develop clear, impactful messaging strategies for external engagements, ensuring consistency and alignment across functions.
• Collaborate with Government Relations and horizontal functions to craft content that promotes GE Aerospace’s priorities and mitigates risks for use in government, regulatory, and industry discussions.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's degree from an accredited university or college
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in systems engineering

Desired Skills:

• Ability to connect business strategy with external engagement plans, ensuring alignment and measurable impact.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build relationships across functions and with external stakeholders, ensuring horizontal integration and alignment.
• Proven ability to craft clear, impactful messaging strategies for external engagements, ensuring consistency and alignment with organizational goals.
• Understanding of regulatory frameworks, certification processes, and safety priorities, with the ability to identify key areas for engagement.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive alignment in high-pressure situations.
• Familiarity with aerospace government relations, trade associations, and industry working groups, with experience architecting and executing engagement strategies for outcome in external forums.