Program Manager - Innovation Management Advanced Technology jobs at Ge Healthcare

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead projects to design and develop automation systems to enhance manufacturing productivity, new product introduction and capacity.
• Own the controls architecture and software for PLC, Robotics, and Vision Systems.
• Lead Design Transfer of NPIs by collaborating with manufacturing, manufacturing engineering, and product engineering teams.
• Identify high Return on Investment opportunities, design and conduct feasibility studies, and develop business cases to deploy automation into production.
• Apply creative solutions and ideas to drive productivity and quality using LEAN methodology, novel fixturing, collaborative robots, AI, traditional automation techniques, and integration of PLCs, HMIs, and motion systems.
• Support Brilliant Factory initiatives by connecting physical processes with digital information.
• Create standard automation Equipment/User Requirement Specifications to drive component standardization, data standards, and safety risk assessments.
• Manage projects and lead project teams in a matrix organization.
• Leverage and manage outside suppliers to deliver automation solutions.
• Troubleshoot factory equipment controls, update/debug control software and support factory equipment as needed.

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing Engineering, or related technical degree.
• 3+ years’ experience in factory automation, deploying various automation technologies from concept phase through final implementation into production.
• Demonstrated skills in PLC and HMI programming, trouble shooting and debug
• Experience in program or project management skills of internal/external integrators.
• Experience developing technical documents, including the ability to write/perform FMEA’s, Equipment Risk Assessments, ERS’s (Equipment Requirements Specifications), and Validation Plans.
• Experience with design tools such as AutoCAD, SolidWorks, and CREO.

Desirable:

• 5+ years’ experience in the design, build, programming, and deployment of automation.
• Experience with Fanuc Robot Programming and Python code development.
• Experience with controls automation design and safety standards; NFPA 79, RIA15.06, and other relevant industry standards.
• Substantial industrial experience in Manufacturing Engineering.
• Six-sigma DMAIC & DFSS certified.
• Solid working knowledge of Medical Device QMS procedures.
• Experience working with global teams.
• Demonstrated experience owning production processes and growing capability in yield, quality, and capacity.
• Demonstrated troubleshooting, analytical, and planning skills.
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal) to all levels of the organization.
• Ability to identify and implement Best Practices.

• Responsible for leading daily operations within the distribution center, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards while driving continuous improvement and cost-effective practices

• Provides direct supervision to Distribution personnel, ensuring timely execution of distribution plans and achievement of operational milestones including manufacturing & logistics schedules

• Champions a culture of safety, compliance, accountability, and LEAN

• Identifies and implements process improvements to enhance service levels, reduce operational costs, and support overall business objectives

• Oversee daily operations, including scheduling, issue resolution, and multiple shifts (weekends)

• Collaborate/partner with internal and cross-functional teams

• Analyze trends/supply chain strategies, conduct required analysis that support financial and capital planning/improvements, recommend initiatives/tactics to meet business growth and financial objectives.

• Manages departmental goals and KPI’s, ability to both conduct analysis and lead teams to conduct analysis

• Baseline warehousing and distribution network cost structure and capacity utilization

• Use data and structured tools to identify and address performance gaps

• Lead cross-functional projects and allocate resources effectively

• Use problem-solving tools (e.g., fishbone diagrams, Pareto analysis) to identify and address quality/performance gaps

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of our supply chain including manufacturing, distribution, partners, customers, baseline of product flow and seasonality, detailed operating costs, key supply chain processes in sourcing, planning, and operations.

• Profile/articulate supply chain processes and inventory flows throughout the network (end to end)

• Analyze network optimization opportunities for cost, inventory, and service delivery

• Optimize inventory flow through network (e.g. ship from DC vs. ship from stores; partner drop ship options; optimal stocking positions and storage footprint

• Develop high-level planning models to support inventory optimization across supply chain networks

• Assess inventory planning processes and systems and recommend potential improvement opportunities for optimizing service levels and inventory turns

• Develop transformation plans to drive proposed changes in transportation, freight optimization, warehousing & distribution

• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day targets and relationships to ensure exceptional on time performance

• Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Engineering or related field.

• 2–5+ years of operational experience in logistics, distribution, or supply chain management

• Prior supervisory experience

• Experience working in a regulated healthcare (FDA, cGMP) environment

• CSCP and/or CLTD certification

• Established project management skills.

• Experience with SAP/WM

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 you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

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 job opening.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop in-depth knowledge of all accounts/hospitals, customer groups, economic drivers, payers, and providers mix in own sales territory.
• Work diligently to achieve annual, quarterly, and monthly sales targets by maintaining an accurate CRM sales funnel with detailed account information.
• Provide Regional Sales Director - Neurosurgery/Spine weekly, monthly and quarterly forecasts, including rolling 6-12 month outlook.
• Ensure consistent compliance with own CRM data, focusing on sales opportunities, quoting, forecasting, win/loss analysis, and updated customer contacts.
• Develop and execute action plans to drive product and service sales, prospect new accounts, and manage existing customers.
• Generate proposals, prepare sales quotations, plan customer meetings, and perform product demonstrations.
• Provide analysis to continuously develop sales territory and communicate market intelligence through the right company channels.
• Establish long-term customer relationships and identify opportunities to satisfy customer needs.
• Maintain positive after-sale relationships to upsell products and services.
• Proactively identify issues at customer sites and find resources needed to resolve them.
• Prepare reports summarizing monthly sales results, contacts made, hospitals visited, and new opportunities started.

Required Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent and 2-4 years or more of related experience selling capital equipment/intra-operative imaging devices and/or adjacent technologies.
• Experience selling medical devices in an operating room, Neurosurgery, Spine or related setting.
• Proven executive relationship-building skills in a hospital/healthcare environment.
• Experience interfacing with both internal team members and external customers as part of a solution-based sales process.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong communication and clear-thinking skills with the ability to synthesize complex issues into simple messages.
• Ability to energize, develop, and build rapport at all levels within an organization.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze customer data and develop financially sound sales offers.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Ensure customer focus by communicating and building rapport with customers as required and ensuring the “voice of the customer” is reflected in all ecosystem solutions designed, built, and delivered
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate customer needs, market and competitive analysis, regulatory requirements, and other factors into product strategy and detailed design inputs
• Drive Ultrasound Digital collaboration offerings to meet the needs of customers, establishing clear value propositions and market in a differentiated way
• Be responsible for strategy and execution of the product roadmaps and new product introductions
• Define and own business cases in collaboration with Ultrasound segment product managers
• Develop and adapt business models as the digital healthcare market continues to evolve
• Maximize customer satisfaction and engagement with our solutions
• Lead a cross-functional team to deliver world class solutions to customers while ensuring compliance with quality systems, regulatory requirements, and commercial process
• Partner with internal and external domain experts to highlight emerging practice trends and product/content needs of the customer
• Support team execution by resolving roadblocks, and organizational interdependencies
• Manage stakeholder communication and progress reporting at various levels of the organization including leadership and executives
• Track metrics, budgets, programs, and projects using Lean principals
• Perform other duties asassigned.

Quality Specific Goals:

• Aware of and comply with the GEHC Quality Manual, Quality Management System, Quality Management Policy, Quality Goals, and applicable laws and regulations as they apply to this job type/position
• Complete all planned Quality & Compliance training within the defined deadlines
• Identify and report any quality or compliance concerns and take immediate corrective action as required
• Identify continuous improvement activities by initiating the implementation of process and product quality improvement initiatives

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• A minimum of 6 years of professional experience in product management, product marketing, product development and/or related field, leading cross functional product life-cycle management, and/or large global projects.
  

Product Management Expertise:

• Demonstrated competency in providing leadership and direction to cross-functional teams and resources
• Proven experience in product life-cycle management
• Experience managing financials including business cases, budgets, spend, and liquidations
• Demonstrated customer focus – evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, effectively evaluates information/data to make decisions, anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve, creates actionable strategies and operational plans
• Change oriented – actively generates process improvements, champions and drives change initiatives, confronts difficult circumstances in creative ways, balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly
  

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrate ability to engage and communicate with customers
• Expert in navigating through business ambiguity and bringing clarity to business leaders and the team
• Demonstrate detailed knowledge of business operations and strategic direction, including merger & acquisition opportunities
• Understands Medical Device Design Principals, requirements for meeting various country regulatory clearances, and demonstrates awareness of industry dynamics
• Understands industry trends and competitive landscape and the implications for GEHC business; partner with business leaders to align projects with business goals and needs
  

Leadership:

• Strong leadership skills with ability to influence outcomes and organize teams to attain shared goals
• Recommends allocation of budget to meet product or business success
• Facilitates dialogues that leads to actionable recommendations to mitigate risks or remove “roadblocks”
• Influences through others; uses experts or other third parties to influence; builds direct and "behind the scenes" (indirect) support for ideas
• Experience leading and working with global teams
• Applies knowledge to coach and mentor others
  

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent influencing, interpersonal and communications skills (both written and verbal) with all levels of an organization
• Demonstrates strong presentation skills; able to effectively present to senior leaders in a concise manner, appropriately communicating the status and risks of a program
• Self-starter - requires minimal direction to accomplish goals, energizing, and results oriented
• Strong team player – collaborates well with others to solve problems and actively incorporates input from various sources
• Takes a holistic perspective, objectively compares multiple tradeoffs, and empathizes with multiple points of view

Eligibility Requirements:

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.
• Must be willing to travel
• Must be willing to work out of an office located in Wisconsin