GE HealthCare European External Funding COE Director 

Hungary, Budapest 

888662103

• Lead the European External Funding Centre of Excellence : Oversee and guide the strategic direction of the CoE, ensuring its self-sustainability and strategic alignment with global innovation direction.

• Securing and Identifying of Funding/ Co-funding: Identify, pursue, and secure external funding opportunities from EU and local European agencies to support GE HealthCare’s R&D initiatives, strategic innovation projects, and academic collaborations.

• Actively support the scouting activities for new prospects of such grants and funding opportunities.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders : Externally with public and private entities to drive creation of funding and grants opportunity/ Internally working cross functionally with the Science and Technology Organization to identify where the opportunities intersect with strategy.

• Proposal preparation management : Own, lead, draft, and file grant/funding applications.

• Monitoring and reporting : Monitor the progress of funded projects, ensuring that they meet their objectives and provide regular reports on funding activities, financial performance, and compliance.

• Compliance and Risk Management : Ensure that all funding activities adhere to applicable laws and regulations, mitigating risks associated with external funding and project implementation.

• Continuous Improvement, Training, and coaching : using expertise, the role helps process development and co-working teams across European sites develop their knowledge regarding External Funding.

• Representation : the role represents GE HealthCare’s strategic European Research & Development interests at various (networking) events.

• Communication: the role operates as a key-contact internally/externally and towards the public authorities and contributes to the shaping of new communication tools and their content.

• People Management: manage day to day operations of the current team

• Several years prior professional experience successfully managing external funding and/or R&D grants

• Familiarity with EU financing vehicles to private institutions

• Bachelor’s degree in law or business from an accredited university

• Ability and willingness to travel up to 5-10% across Europe

• People Management experience

• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills in English

• Strong advantage if relevant experience was within Medical Science or Medical Devices industry

• Customer focused, have great interpersonal skills allowing to adapt in a technical environment interacting with executives.

• Have ability to work independently and to define and meet specific objectives with an entrepreneurial mindset.

• Strong understanding of grant writing, financial analysis, project management, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Experience working in a global matrixed environment, as working with international stakeholders and diverse cultures as well as an ability to work collaboratively across different departments.

• Team Worker with strong interpersonal and leadership skills, positive attitude and target oriented.

• Demonstrated ability to drive to clear, concise outcomes with strong analytical and organizational skills.

• Demonstrated ability to create new work processes across multiple business/organizational entities.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.

• Rigorous and methodical with strong capacity for analysis and synthesis.

• Effective negotiation and problem-solving skills with proven ability to work through difficult situations.

• Innovative, open minded and collaborative.

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.