GE HealthCare Director Research & Scientific Affairs – 

Remote, Remote 

733213167

Job Description Summary

This role oversees cross-modality research and scientific (non-commercial) partnerships in the assigned region or sector in support of compliant and effective scientific engagement with external stakeholders to advance a common vision of helping clinicians provide the best patient care possible.

Essential Responsibilities

serves as liaison between product engineering and research & development teams, marketing & commercial teams, and external healthcare researchers in support of GE HealthCare’s scientific objectives. The primary responsibility is to own scientific engagement strategy, implementation, and long-term success at the regional level.

• Serve as an independent (without commercial objectives) enabler of scientific exchange with healthcare professionals, healthcare institutions, and healthcare research entities in support of GEHC’s scientific and innovation/product objectives.
• Conduct customer or collaborator facing presentations to articulate GEHC’s scientific objectives and collaboration opportunities.
• Identify partners and projects based on robust product, technology, and research strategies aligned with GEHC’s scientific objectivesand engage the appropriate GEHC product stakeholders for consideration/discussion.
• Maintain operating mechanisms for research payment milestone tracking to compliantly meet research payment and reporting responsibilities.
• Work with institution’s research and innovation leadership to establish mutually agreeable partnership-level structure, cross-modality scientific partnership agreements (e.g., master research agreements), success metrics, and operating mechanisms to ensure sustainable productive scientific engagement.
• Maintain consistency of scientific engagements with key opinion leaders in the assigned sector or region.
• Coordinate executive-level research interactions with key research partners including technology roadmap discussions, research steering meetings, and advisory councils.
• Coordinate regularly with regional customer-facing teams to ensure compliant exchange of information and coordination where appropriate.
• Connect researchers and key opinion leaders with GEHC’s marketing and product businesses in support of speaker/advisory activities, co-authorship, education programs, and other non-commercial collaboration opportunities.
• Drive clinical acceptance of new technologies by establishing consortiums of key opinion leaders and GEHC stakeholders to generate clinical evidence and discuss clinical adoption activities.
• Identify external clinical opinions, perceptions and technology trends, and licensing opportunities to influence GE HealthCare’s product and innovation strategies, and performance in the market. Clearly communicate market intel with appropriate GEHC functions.
• Coordinate and manage advisory boards and other mechanisms of engagement with external stakeholders
• Participate in industry activities (speak at events, join task groups, R&E, GERRAF, LEAD, etc.) on behalf of GEHC.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Master’s degree in technical discipline (e.g., medical physics, science, engineering) or a healthcare administration/management discipline (e.g., healthcare administration)
• Substantial experience in the medical technology or device industry (FDA experience qualifies). This is considered a mid-career plus role (7+ years is a good reference for level of experience).
• Depth of business acumen and ability to inform and communicate product, technology, innovation, and research needs and strategies to internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent written and communication skills across various stakeholder groups including C-level leaders and researchers in healthcare institutions, GEHC business CEOs and general managers, GEHC sales and marketing, and GEHC research personnel
• Strong project management skills and ability to prioritize work
• Ability to effectively critique research designs and redirect
• Ability to indirectly manage and influence across functional areas to align and determine priorities
• Knowledge of US healthcare systems and clinical practices related to patient care
• Knowledge of institutional research practices, including research involving human subjects
• Knowledge of applicable standards, laws and regulations governing research practices, compliance, and the separation of commercial and non-commercial activities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Teams, Excel and PowerPoint

Desired Characteristics

• Advanced degree (e.g., PhD, MD)in a technical discipline (e.g., medicine, engineering, data science, science, nursing – radiology or radiation oncology preferred)
• Previous experience in a senior role responsible for research or other external partnership and project management
• Knowledge and experience with GE HealthCare products, research partners, and customers
• Proficiency in Veeva software and SmartSheet

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.