Location: Waukesha
Job Description Summary
Are you passionate about improving healthcare while driving meaningful business impact? Join Patient Care Solutions (PCS) as a Senior Program Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping our global Materials Variable Cost Productivity (VCP) strategy.
In this highly visible leadership role, you will drive a portfolio of initiatives that reduce material costs, improve product competitiveness, and unlock value across the product lifecycle. You will partner with leaders across Engineering, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Product Management, Finance, and PCS franchise VCP teams to identify opportunities, deliver sustainable material cost productivity, prioritize investments, and achieve measurable results. This is a unique opportunity to influence enterprise-wide decisions, accelerate execution, and help ensure our products remain innovative, affordable, and accessible to patients and customers around the world.
Roles and Responsibilities
Own and manage the global PCS Materials VCP funnel, including opportunity identification, intake, prioritization, pipeline health, and alignment to annual cost productivity targets.
Lead cross-functional execution of material cost-reduction initiatives across Engineering, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Product Management, and Finance to ensure timely delivery of committed savings.
Establish and govern portfolio operating mechanisms, including funnel reviews, prioritization boards, KPI management, escalation processes, executive reporting, and PCS-wide VCP trackers.
Partner with PCS Product and sourcing teams to advance strategic VCP opportunities such as supplier optimization, disruptive cost workouts, Hardware Platformization, simplification, cross-product leverage, product tear downs and design-to-cost initiatives.
Partner with Finance and business leaders to validate savings, track benefit realization, and ensure accurate reporting of funnel, risk-adjusted funnel, actuals, estimates, and portfolio performance metrics.
Build and maintain strong governance, data quality, and VCP Engine fidelity to improve visibility, accountability, decision-making, and standard work consistency across PCS.
Drive prioritization, project planning, resource alignment, and issue resolution to keep critical VCP programs on track and proactively manage deviations from plan.
Facilitate Lean simplification, continuous improvement, and value-engineering practices that improve product cost competitiveness, operating efficiency, teamwork, and profitability.
Develop dashboards, scorecards, control plans, and operating metrics to measure progress, sustain productivity gains, and enable timely corrective actions or escalations.
Champion and implement enterprise-wide best practices across PCS product teams, creating accountability, alignment, and cross-functional partnerships that accelerate delivery of strategic outcomes.
Support broader PCS portfolio priorities and special assignments as needed, outside the VCP scope.
Job description provided by GE HealthCare.
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