Engineering Lean Cost Champion

Waukesha, WI - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 16 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description Summary

The Engineering Lean Cost Champion is a highly visible strategic leadership role within MRs Global Program Management Office (PMO) shaping how we plan invest and deliver value across the business. Partnering closely with the Chief Technology Officer Product Management GMs and Program Managers this role defines and orchestrates MRs global operating planbalancing ambition with discipline through thoughtful prioritization and trade off decisions. The Cost Champion then works hand in hand with global budget leaders to translate strategy into execution. Beyond portfolio cost management the role plays a critical leadership position in establishing and continuously improving product cost collaborating with New Product Introduction (NPI) teams to aggressively drive cost out of platforms and deliver strong business outcomes. Serving as the primary engineering interface to the Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) organization the role also leads engineering driven Variable Cost Productivity (VCP). Across these three core pillarscost management product cost and VCPthe Engineering Lean Cost Champion drives standard work embeds lean thinking and delivers innovative process and workflow improvements that directly impact business performance.

Job Description

***Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas now or in the future for this position.***

Must be able to work onsite daily out of our Waukesha WI location.

Job Description:

Establish and own the Global MR R&D budget operating plan in partnership with Engineering and Product Management leadership.
Lead and influence a large global network of budget owners and program leaders to deliver quarterly financial and operational results aligned to the operating plan.
Develop and execute proactive strategies and informed tradeoff decisions to keep the businesss highestpriority initiatives on track amid headwinds and unforeseen challenges.
Manage and integrate a broad range of budget categories including program materials purchased services capitalized equipment software capitalization base cost and travel.
Drive consistency and standard work across global budget leadership sites through innovative scalable and lean process solutions.
Partner with NPI program teams and crossfunctional stakeholders to lead Total Landed Cost (TLC) initiatives ensuring programs meet or exceed cost targets at launch.
Collaborate closely with the MR Finance team to monitor baseline and govern product cost during business costsetting windows.
Work with Finance to develop and optimize software capitalization strategies that maximize the longterm value of R&D investments.
Lead the execution and tracking of MR Variable Cost Productivity (VCP) initiatives in partnership with the Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) organization.
Build and sustain robust funnels of current and future costout initiatives coordinating projectlevel support plans to deliver committed benefits.
Expand cost and margin visibility by incorporating additional cost drivers identifying wingtowing efficiency opportunities and prioritizing the highestvalue actions with clear accountability.
Develop longterm design product cost and Total Landed Cost strategies to support NPI programs VCP initiatives and MR segment teamsdriving margin expansion cost productivity and bestinclass platforming.
Serve as a key interface to NPI teams during subsystemlevel design integration ensuring cost targets estimates and implementations translate into measurable systemlevel benefits through technology innovation and costfocused deliverables.
Partner closely with the MR PMO organization to influence support and embed a wingtowing costconscious culture that drives sustainable MR business success.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelors degree with 5 years operational or analysis experience in the technical healthcare or business environment or equivalent fields.
At least 5 years experience with leading cross functional teams to achieve business goals. With proven leadership of a team coaching mentoring and developing teams tools and process improvements
Prior experience in problem solving and driving change specifically using LEAN Principles
Experience with R&D budget management and control in a manufacturing/engineering environment
3 years of direct product structure or product management experience
Prior NPI experience specifically with variable cost production in a design and supply chain partnership
Direct business level finance experience and budget management
Experience in Variable Cost Productivity management in a product development related to cost and design improvement efforts.
3 years experience working in a global business environment with sound understanding of global process and tools to manage segment level cost evaluations
3 years experience with financial systems/applications such as Oracle SAP COGNOS Business Objects etc. Strong Excel skills in data compilation and aggregation.
Specific prior work demonstrating LEAN application process and tools to deliver high value and effective outcomes related to current state cost analysis future state potential improvement and predictive NPI cost related innovation efforts to business segment portfolio management strategies.

Desired Characteristics:

Demonstrated experience driving functional excellence through technology and process improvements to deliver measurable business outcomes.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical and business topics into clear concise and compelling messages for diverse audiences.
Ability to partner effectively with contract service providers to deliver highquality outputs against welldefined accountable timelines.
Strong analytical capabilities with a proven ability to link cost drivers to financial results and operational performance develop alternatives and drive meaningful change.
High adaptability and flexibility including the ability to work effectively amid ambiguity shifting priorities and incomplete informationparticularly in detailed costing environments.
Strong insight into crossfunctional costrelated challenges with the ability to identify collaboration opportunities and drive solutions that benefit the broader business.
Detail and dataoriented mindset when influencing strategy and delivering insights to crossfunctional leadership teams.
Demonstrated ability to analyze complex problems develop actionable solutions and lead programs and projects to successful outcomes.
Proven capability to document plan communicate and execute crossfunctional initiatives with clarity and discipline.
Established project management skills with experience coordinating timelines stakeholders and deliverables across organizations.
Prior experience in program process or operations management across multiple functional or operational areas.
Ability to lead through influence building alignment and driving results without direct authority.

We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas now or in the future for this job opening.

GE HealthCare offers a great work environment professional development challenging careers and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is anEqual Opportunity Employer . 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.

GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

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Job Description SummaryThe Engineering Lean Cost Champion is a highly visible strategic leadership role within MRs Global Program Management Office (PMO) shaping how we plan invest and deliver value across the business. Partnering closely with the Chief Technology Officer Product Management GMs and ...