Executive Lean Leader

🔥 1 hour ago

🇦🇹 Austria – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Executive

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GE HealthCare

10,000+ employees

Founded 1892

🏥 Healthcare

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $1.2G Post IPO secondary on 2024-12

Healthcare • Enterprise

GE HealthCare is a global healthcare technology company focused on developing products, technologies, and solutions that improve patient care and healthcare delivery. The company emphasizes innovation, next-generation solutions, and improving wellbeing worldwide. It operates in many countries (offices in 80 countries) and offers career opportunities across early careers and professional roles. GE HealthCare communicates a mission to make healthcare better and champions employee wellbeing, diversity, and equal opportunity.

📋 Description

• Lead the enterprise-wide Lean transformation within GE HealthCare’s Office of Heartbeat • Support the design, adoption, functional leadership, and execution of the Heartbeat Business System • Champion, coach, and mentor Lean change • Lead and mentor Region / Segment / Function teams of Heartbeat Lean Leaders • Partner with global stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and execute improvement opportunities through Kaizen events and Lean initiatives • Co-lead operating reviews, long-term strategy, and priority planning • Support Heartbeat Business System bootcamps, leader coaching, and training • Embed standard work, daily management, problem solving, kaizen, value stream mapping, and action planning into business operations • Establish a Lean capability program and common roadmap for continuous improvement and people development • Analyze work at the genba, diagnose challenges, test process improvements, and execute action plans • Execute Hoshin Kanri priorities and drive critical projects • Strengthen leadership capability, culture, and sustained organizational change • Contribute to improved EBITDA and Free Cash Flow

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (BS or BA) • Master’s Degree preferred • Minimum 15 years of experience in a General Management or Lean/operational leadership role • Minimum 10 years of capability building across Lean practices, including Hoshin Kanri, problem solving, daily management system, standard work, and value stream mapping • Working knowledge of business processes within the medical equipment or another regulated industry • Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or similar platforms • Experience with global Lean-system deployment • Strong facilitation and program-management skills • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive storytelling • Experience with change management, preferably the ADKAR framework • Deep commercial experience focused on customer and end-user experience • Ability to travel up to 40% across Europe and internationally • Demonstrated successful leadership and proficiency in installing and sustaining a Lean system for a global organization with operations and services teams • Ability to influence without authority across segments, regions, and functions • Ability to hold senior leaders accountable to commitments • Growth mindset and hands-on approach, comfortable at the genba and in the boardroom

🏖️ Benefits

• Relocation assistance not provided • Opportunity to contribute to improved EBITDA and Free Cash Flow • Opportunity to build people and leader capability • Opportunity to lead enterprise-wide Lean transformation and culture change

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