Location: Remote
Job Description Summary
Based in Europe, this executive role leads the enterprise-wide Lean transformation within GE HealthCare’s Office of Heartbeat. It supports the development, deployment, and sustained alignment of the Heartbeat Business System with the company’s 2030 goals.
Transformation Leadership: The role champions, coaches, and mentors Lean change; leads Heartbeat Lean Leaders; partners with stakeholders to prioritize improvement opportunities; and co-leads operating reviews, strategy, and priority planning across regions, segments, and functions.
Business System Deployment: Responsibilities include supporting bootcamps, coaching, and training while embedding standard work, daily management, problem solving, kaizen, value stream mapping, and action planning into business operations. The position also builds Lean capability and manages the organizational change required to sustain these practices.
Operational Impact: By analyzing work at the genba, diagnosing challenges, testing improvements, and executing Hoshin Kanri priorities, the role is expected to improve business results and culture, strengthen leadership capability, and contribute to improved EBITDA and Free Cash Flow.
Required Profile: Candidates need a bachelor’s degree, at least 15 years of general management or Lean operational leadership experience, and at least 10 years of Lean capability-building experience. The profile also calls for regulated-industry knowledge, experience with AI-enabled tools, global Lean-system deployment, strong facilitation and program-management skills, executive communication, accountability, commercial focus, and change-management expertise, preferably using the ADKAR framework.
Your Challenge
The Executive Lean Leader is responsible for supporting the design, adoption, functional leadership, and execution of the enterprise-wide Lean transformation within the Office of Heartbeat at GE HealthCare. As a key member of the Office of Heartbeat team, the Executive Lean Leader contributes to the overall strategy of how we run, change, and act in the business, guided by the principles and processes of the Heartbeat Business System (HBS).
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