Executive Lean Leader

🔥 59 minutes ago

🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Executive

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GE HealthCare

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1892

🏥 Healthcare

💊 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

• 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 and lead 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 across regions, segments, and functions • 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 develop capability from tactical deployment to strategic value-stream transformation • Analyze work at the genba, diagnose challenges, test process improvements, and execute action plans • Execute Hoshin Kanri priorities and drive improved business results, culture, EBITDA, and Free Cash Flow • Lead significant change management to sustain the Heartbeat Business System

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (BS or BA) required; 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 a variety of 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 other regulated industry • Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or similar platforms • Experience with global Lean-system deployment and operations/services teams • Strong facilitation and ability to influence without authority across segments, regions, and functions • Excellent time, program, and project management skills • High attention to detail in daily and visual management • Proven ability to hold senior leaders accountable to commitments • 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Relocation Assistance Provided: No