Sr. HR Manager & Change Leader
Bellevue, WA - USA
Job Summary
The role sits at the intersection of business-facing HR leadership change management organizational effectiveness and leader enablement. It is ideal for an experienced HR leader who can translate ambiguity into practical people strategies help leaders navigate sensitive transitions and support employee engagement through complex change.
About the Role
In this role you will support engineering software AI digital and other technical talent populations as they move through transformation. You will advise leaders on organizational impact change readiness stakeholder alignment workforce implications communication needs and execution risks.
Rather than owning enterprise talent development programs this role focuses on helping technical organizations move through change in real time. You will help leaders make thoughtful decisions communicate with clarity manage adoption and sustain change across interconnected initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Business-Facing HR Leadership
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technical leaders on the people implications of organizational change operating shifts and evolving workforce needs.
Partner with leaders to align organizational decisions with business priorities talent implications and execution realities across technical teams.
Provide strategic counsel on team effectiveness role clarity organizational health leadership dynamics and change readiness.
Support leaders in making thoughtful decisions about structure responsibilities and workforce impacts as business needs evolve.
Translate ambiguity into clear actions sound people decisions and forward momentum.
Transformation Adoption
Lead the people side of transformation for technical organizations helping teams adopt new structures expectations processes and ways of working.
Build integrated change approaches that improve awareness leadership alignment employee readiness and sustained adoption.
Translate complex transformation efforts into practical implementation strategies that move teams from current state to future state.
Drive stakeholder engagement change planning adoption support and reinforcement mechanisms.
Coordinate across overlapping initiatives to reduce fragmentation manage change load and improve consistency of implementation.
Organizational Transition
Guide leaders through restructures team redesign operating model shifts capability changes role evolution and other organizational transitions.
Assess the impact of change on teams interfaces decision-making and employee experience.
Identify transition risks early and recommend actions that support continuity engagement and execution.
Advise on organizational choices that improve accountability alignment speed and collaboration.
Help leaders navigate sensitive transition points with a balanced approach to business outcomes and employee impact.
Leader Readiness and Change Communications
Equip leaders with messaging context and tools to lead teams through change with clarity consistency and credibility.
Support communication approaches that are practical transparent and tailored to different audiences.
Coach leaders on explaining change addressing concerns and reinforcing key messages over time.
Strengthen leader capability in managing uncertainty sustaining momentum and supporting adoption.
Partner across HR and other stakeholders to prepare leaders for communication that builds trust and supports execution.
Execution Risk and Governance
Anticipate and manage people-related risks associated with transformation organizational change and workforce transition.
Establish governance and monitoring approaches that improve visibility to dependencies decisions implementation issues and adoption challenges.
Use feedback data and organizational insight to refine change approaches and improve outcomes.
Surface resistance points organizational friction and employee concerns early.
Apply strong judgment and discretion to sensitive workforce matters arising from organizational shifts and evolving business priorities.
Required Qualifications
Significant progressive HR leadership experience ideally supporting technical engineering digital software or AI-intensive organizations.
Strong expertise in business-facing HR leadership change management organizational effectiveness and workforce transition.
Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional change efforts affecting large or specialized talent populations.
Experience helping leaders implement organizational change including changes in structure roles team design or operating models.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills in matrixed fast-changing environments.
Experience developing and executing practical change strategies that build alignment readiness adoption and sustained implementation.
Strong communication skills including the ability to shape leader messaging support employee communication and simplify complex organizational change.
Ability to translate ambiguity into clear plans actionable guidance and structured execution.
Strong business acumen executive presence and judgment.
Experience navigating organizational transitions talent risks and sensitive change environments with discretion and credibility.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting technical talent communities through significant organizational change including restructures capability shifts or evolving ways of working.
Ability to build trust quickly with senior leaders and serve as a steady advisor during transformation.
Strong execution orientation with the ability to move from strategy to action in complex environments.
Experience enabling leaders to communicate effectively and lead teams through uncertainty transition and adoption.
Practical solutions-oriented mindset with strong follow-through and a bias toward simplification.
Comfort operating across multiple concurrent priorities and interconnected workstreams.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills including the ability to use data feedback and organizational insight to inform decisions.
Resilience adaptability and composure in ambiguous or evolving environments.
Commitment to building healthy high-performing organizations where technical talent can adapt contribute and succeed through change.
Why GE HealthCare
At GE HealthCare you can help technical organizations adapt and perform through meaningful transformation. This role offers the opportunity to partner with leaders across complex innovative talent environments and shape people strategies that support clarity adoption engagement and execution.
You will help leaders guide teams through change thoughtfully while supporting GE HealthCares commitment to building high-performing organizations that advance healthcare technology.
We know candidates may not meet every preferred qualification. If this role aligns with your experience and interests we encourage you to apply.
We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas now or in the future for this job opening. For U.S. based positions only the pay range for this position is $197840.00-$296760.00 Annual. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including skills qualifications experience and addition this position may also be eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). GE HealthCare offers a competitive benefits package including not but limited to medical dental vision paid time off a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities life disability and accident insurance and tuition reimbursement.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
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
GE HealthCare provides digital infrastructure, data analytics & decision support tools helps in diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients