Senior Director, Operations and Lean

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GE HealthCare

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1892

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Healthcare • Medical Technology • Pharmaceuticals

GE HealthCare is a leader in precision care, dedicated to providing innovative technologies and integrated solutions that enhance healthcare services. As a stand-alone company, it focuses on imaging, ultrasound, and healthcare IT, empowering clinicians and improving patient outcomes through advanced medical technologies and personalized care solutions. With a significant investment in research and development, GE HealthCare aims to transform healthcare by making hospitals more efficient and therapies more precise.

📋 Description

• Act as a change agent to improve Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Innovation and people outcomes through higher Lean maturity and stronger operating discipline. • Own the operating rhythm for Probes staff in partnership with the General Manager, ensuring clear escalations, decision flow, follow-up discipline, and alignment to business priorities. • Partner operations/supply chain interfaces to improve engineering-to-operations flow, manufacturability handoffs, operational readiness, and execution efficiency. • Support the Productivity Leader in translating VCP opportunities into problem-solving routines, cross-functional actions, and sustained delivery while Finance validates financial impact. • Partner with Product Quality and IB, QA/RA, supply chain, and engineering leaders to structure problem solving on recurring quality, installed base, and operational issues. • Deploy and coach Lean and Heartbeat practices across the Probes staff and global RDOs network, including daily management, standard work, leader standard work, problem solving, kaizen, VSM, visual management, and action tracking. • Build Lean capability in the organization by coaching leaders and teams, developing practitioners, and embedding repeatable operating mechanisms rather than one-off events. • Interpret internal and external business challenges, evaluate conflicting data, and recommend practical operating improvements across products, processes, services, and transactional workflows. • Influence operating plans, budget trade-offs, capacity discussions, and cross-functional priorities through strong operational acumen and fact-based decision support.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, Supply Chain, or related field. • Significant experience in Lean, Lean-Agile, operations, engineering operations, manufacturing, or cross-functional business leadership. • Proven track record of leading change and improving business performance in a complex global matrix organization. • Demonstrated ability to teach, coach, practice, and apply Lean methods such as VSM, kaizen, standard work, leader standard work, problem solving, Kanban, visual management, and Lean transformations. • Experience deploying Lean beyond manufacturing/supply chain into engineering, transactional processes, program execution, or business operations. • Strong ability to influence senior leaders, align cross-functional teams, and convert ambiguity into clear operating mechanisms and actions.

🏖️ Benefits

• Relocation Assistance Provided: No • Inclusion & Diversity GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. 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. • Total rewards designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. • 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.