[Hiring] Lean Transformation Leader @GE HealthCare

Role Description

The Lean Transformation Leader is a strategic partner responsible for turning the Surgical Innovations operating plan into measurable, sustainable business results. This role establishes a connected Lean management system across the segment, helping leaders align on priorities, gain early visibility to performance, solve the highest-impact problems, and scale improvements across the organization. Through Lean leadership, data-driven insights, and disciplined problem-solving, the leader strengthens execution and accelerates performance across growth, margin, cash, customer outcomes, quality, and speed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate strategy into execution.
• Partner with SI leaders and functional leadership to shape and execute a focused transformation portfolio aligned to the AIS operating plan.
• Convert strategic priorities into clear outcomes, accountable owners, milestones, and measurable benefits.
• Drive full-segment performance.
• Lead cross-functional improvement across the SI P&L, including commercial, engineering, marketing, operations, service, and enabling functions.
• Connect customer, market, product, and operational insights to the choices that improve business performance.
• Deploy the operating system.
• Establish and strengthen enterprise operating mechanisms across SI, including Daily Management, Strategy Deployment, Leader Standard Work, structured Problem Solving, and Value Stream Management.
• Ensure these mechanisms support action and accountability rather than adding process for its own sake.
• Lead transformation teams.
• Mobilize cross-functional teams around the highest-value opportunities, remove organizational barriers, and accelerate delivery of strategic objectives.
• Make interdependencies, decisions, and escalation paths visible so teams can move at pace.
• Build analytics-led decisions.
• Promote the use of business analytics and Lean tools to make fact-based decisions, understand root causes, test improvement ideas, and track performance.
• Establish baselines and benefit tracking so the organization can distinguish activity from realized impact.
• Coach leaders and teams.
• Coach senior business and functional leaders in Lean leadership behaviors and the effective application of the AIS Heartbeat Operating System.
• Build leaders’ ability to set direction, engage teams, solve problems, and sustain improvements.
• Scale what works.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and replicate proven practices across SI and AIS.
• Coordinate with regional and functional teams to deploy best practices and deliver strategic priorities while adapting appropriately to local needs.
• Govern benefits and risks.
• Monitor initiative performance, validate operational and financial benefits with accountable leaders, surface delivery risks early, and recommend corrective action when results or assumptions change.
• Strengthen Lean capability.
• Partner with the AIS Heartbeat Lean Senior Director to improve enterprise deployment methods, capability development, and operating rhythms.
• Mentor the AIS Heartbeat Lean Lead and build a broader pipeline of Lean leaders across SI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
• 8+ years experience in Lean, operational excellence, general management, operations, manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, or a related business discipline.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional transformation in a global, matrixed organization and delivering sustained, measurable business results.
• Advanced practitioner in Strategy Deployment, Daily Management, Value Stream Management and Mapping, Leader Standard Work, and structured Problem Solving.
• Experience applying Lean across multiple functions, ideally spanning commercial and technical organizations as well as operations.
• Strong financial and analytical judgment, including the ability to connect initiative-level improvements to segment performance and validate benefit realization.
• Ability to influence and coach senior leaders, align diverse stakeholders, and lead change without relying solely on formal authority.
• Ability to travel 40%.

Requirements

• Experience in healthcare, medical technology, or another complex product environment is an advantage.
• 10+ years experience in Lean, operational excellence, general management, operations, manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, or a related business discipline.
• Location in UT, WI, PA.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range: $140,000.00 - $210,000.00 Annual.
• Performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI).
• Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.