Job Description Summary

The Transformation & Lean Leader will be responsible for driving GE Healthcares multiyear transformation agenda through an effective business system and transformation process. This Executive will lead the Transformation and Lean Office influencing and prioritizing the global transformation agenda. They will orchestrate largescale complex initiatives to accelerate business growth manage the annual enterprise priority planning process and ensure alignment with the strategic budget. They will act as a strategic advisor to Leadership staff and oversee the of selected transformation initiatives to deliver organizational value and expected outcomes. The role also involves defining strategizing executing and sustaining the companys top priorities or Big Rocks and managing tools and methods to drive change management. The Transformation & Lean Leader will promote a Lean mindset across the organization as the capability owner prioritize and maintain standards and build Lean capabilities within leadership and the function itself.

Job Description

Stakeholder Management/Communication: A dynamic leader who can influence key stakeholders provide leadership direction maintain open communication channels and create feedback loops for improvement.

Strategic Insight: This person has the strategic vision to help lead GE HealthCare through the transformative landscape emphasizing the importance of leveraging Lean principles. The ideal candidate will have experience driving enterprisewide transformation and lean maturity by advancing strategic initiatives promoting a Lean mindset and building leadership capabilities.

Lean Background: Strong Lean background and familiarity with Hoshin Kanri methodologies. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of implementing Lean principles to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence

Operational Transformation: This person knows how to transform a business focus and create processes that are replicable and drive toward efficiency and results. He or she will need to understand key drivers of longterm financial growth and align transformation projects accordingly. For example how to go to market with digital products today.

Innovation Leadership: Utilizes comprehensive business intelligence to drive operational excellence efficiency and value creation. Develops and implements Lean methodologies and transformation processes across the organization ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. This leader has experience providing innovative solutions focusing on critical success drivers and facilitating teams to adopt Lean practices continuously improve and embrace change.

Global Experience: Experience in executive leadership working globally with a strong understanding of how to evaluate and transform initiatives such as turnarounds and integrations

Financial Acumen: Strong financial acumen and an ability to tie business system performance to the organizations profitability potential and expectations

Inspire & Influence: This person is a global executive with gravitas credibility charisma and vision. They lead through interpersonal influence not authority. This person has a high degree of humility and displays leadership that inspires and energizes the organization. He or she leverages strong EQ characteristics and the different capabilities of each team member to create a motivated effective sustainable environment. Cultivate peer relationships to influence them to drive the adoption of the business system tied to future financial performance and reach into segments to guide and coach.

Culture Transformation: He or she creates meaning and purpose engages energizes the organization and leads through influence while delivering against GE HealthCares cultural operating principles. They will drive a culture that maintains lean purity and practical adoption/adaptation of tools.

Performance Orientation: High expectations for performance and accountability for actions and results are the norm. Success is achieved by looking forward to what can be done to get the result and taking the action to make it happen.

Capability Development: Leads change and promotes a Lean mindset in Leaders through collaboration. Demonstrates how to employ Lean concepts and thinking effectively and leads by example. Assesses Lean maturity through Leaders.

Courageous Thinking: A leader who is results oriented and comfortable addressing difficult issues headon facilitating tough problemsolving conversations and advocating for necessary changes to achieve longterm success.

Qualifications:

A strong mix of business leadership experience with a proven track record working in a leading healthcare or manufacturing organization.
The ideal candidate will have held business leadership roles with P&L accountability be strong operationally (including supply chain) and commercially and successfully
proven Executive Leadership Team influence through cultivating relationships and successfully navigating difficult conversations vs leveraging authority.
Experience practicing and leading Lean deployment and skills building across multiple disciplines.
Possess the skills energy desire and drive to take on the top transformation and lean leadership role at GE HealthCare.

Additional Information

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID19 some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.