Job Description Summary

GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology pharmaceutical diagnostics and digital solutions innovator dedicated to providing integrated solutions services and data analytics to make hospitals more efficient clinicians more effective therapies more precise and patients healthier and happier. Serving patients and providers for more than 125 years GE HealthCare is advancing personalized connected and compassionate care while simplifying the patients journey across the care pathway. Together our Imaging Ultrasound Patient Care Solutions and Pharmaceutical Diagnostics businesses help improve patient care from diagnosis to therapy to monitoring. We are a $19.6 billion business with approximately 51000 colleagues working to create a world where healthcare has no limits.

Our Pharmaceutical Diagnostics (PDx) business is the number one global supplier of contrast media and a strong player in molecular imaging agents used to enhance medical imaging exams. Used throughout all major disease area diagnostic and treatment pathways PDx products support three patients every second around the world.

Role Summary:

GE Healthcare Cork is undergoing a LEAN transformation to make it a simpler faster and even more customer centric organization. The LEAN transformation will accelerate performance improvement and strengthen capabilities to deliver on its strategic priorities. LEAN is how we deliver for our people patients and consumers.

The Cork LEAN Expert role will be part of the team responsible for the design adoption and execution of the LEAN transformation roadmap for the Cork site reporting to the LEAN & Digital Director. The LEAN team is responsible for developing and deploying the LEAN behaviors principles standards and tools across the GEHC PDx network to drive tangible business value.

This role is critical to driving the Cultural Change required to move Cork to a true LEAN organization. The role requires hands-on experience applying Lean/driving results through continuous improvement and will be a contributing leader to the overall success of the program.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Provide overall LEAN leadership to key areas of Cork business and drive the LEAN transformation by:

• Serving as a champion coach mentor for change by influencing teams to better understanding and adopt lean principles problem-solving methodologies digital adaptation and ultimately fostering a culture of change and servant leadership

• Partnering with business stakeholders to identify prioritize and execute improvement opportunities through Kaizen

• Driving the execution of Kaizens and LEAN events to deliver on the Continuous Improvement plan

• Co-own event charter metrics scope required pre-work and event execution plan

• Establish and execute a roadmap to build implement and measure Standard Work (SW) across all business partners processes

• Define and prioritize processes and owners

• Train teams on standard work and define KPIs that demonstrate process health

• Establish and drive sustainment of Daily Management across the business partners processes

• Ensure proper training and coaching for effective daily management and a true embrace the red culture.

• This position will serve as a demonstrated leader in Lean methods and will act as a role model for Lean mindset across the entire PDx business

• Hands on approach in demonstrating application of Lean tools: Our Core 4 (Problem Solving Daily Management Standard Work Action plans).

• Familiarity with various manufacturing process technologies MES EBR AI

• Ideally familiar with driving change in regulated environments (e.g. FDA)

Qualifications & Experience

• Solid experience in roles responsible for operations transformation and/or quality

• Bachelors degree in any technical or analytical domain with a preference for Supply Chain Manufacturing related degrees (Business Economics Engineering)

• Experience in highly regulated industries

• Improvement mindset is essential understands LEAN toolset with proven results

• Ability to facilitate and conduct Kaizen events

• Proven success in leading significant business process improvement

• Demonstrated leadership ability to shape and drive transformational change

• Ability to drive and manage change in a matrix environment

• LEAN/Six Sigma trained with the ability to apply tools and process rigor

Desired Skills

• Strategic mindset with hands-on approach

• Customer focused with emphasis on Voice of Customer and Customer Impact

• Outstanding communication ability across all levels of the business and between all functions with the ability to grow cross functional relationships and to influence outside of immediate sphere of control

• Driven and persistent with a strong sense of ownership and accountabilityStrong analytical and quantitative skills

• Intellectually curious open minded and creative problem solver

• Motivated to achieve results through teamwork and cross functional collaboration

Inclusion and Diversity

GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Behaviors

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus and drive ownership always with unyielding integrity.

Total Rewards

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything youd expect from an organization with global strength and scale and youll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care collaboration and support.

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DISCLAIMER: This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties skills efforts requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

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