Job Description Summary

The Program Manager provides strategic leadership to cross-functional and engineering teams, driving execution of business objectives and program deliverables. This role establishes clear priorities, defines success criteria, and ensures alignment across stakeholders while fostering a sense of urgency and accountability. The Program Manager also mentors quality engineers, leads software quality discussions, and collaborates closely with business and program leadership teams to deliver high-quality products on schedule, within budget, and with competitive market features.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver NPI and Installed Base (IB) programs, ensuring quality, schedule, cost, and business objectives are met.
• Define program strategy, execution plans, milestones, risks, and success criteria; provide regular updates to leadership and stakeholders.
• Drive product roadmap execution, product quality initiatives, and alignment with Product Management, Product Owners, and business teams.
• Provide cross-functional leadership across the product lifecycle, including concept development, design, validation, pilot trials, release, and post-release support.
• Develop business cases and drive decision-making through collaboration with Engineering, Sourcing, Finance, and global business teams.
• Manage medium to large complex programs from initiation through closure, including planning, resource allocation, budget management, issue resolution, and SLA adherence.
• Foster collaboration across teams, negotiate priorities, resolve conflicts, and manage external vendor relationships.
• Champion Agile practices by facilitating planning, stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and delivery governance while promoting team accountability and transparency.
• Provide servant leadership, mentoring, and coaching to enable high-performing teams and successful program execution.
• Ensure compliance with GE HealthCare Quality Management System, regulatory requirements, Design Controls, change management processes, and GxP validation requirements.
• Promote a strong quality culture that prioritizes compliance, risk management, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience as an engineer or project leader in a technical position and proven experience in project leadership within a product development

Desired Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams, including strong influential, communication, and collaboration skills
• Demonstrated understanding/experience with the full product life cycle and development process which includes: Productivity projects, New Product Introduction programs, and/or Installed Base activities
• Demonstrated problem solving ability and ability to drive results

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