Lean Leader

Business Unit: GE HealthcareFunction: QualityResponsibilities: Provide leadership for the Global Healthcare Diagnostic Imaging (DI)Lean initiative, driving a Lean culture throughout the entire organization, using transactional Lean concepts and principles to change the customer experience and drive organic growth. Initiate sustainable process improvements to exceed customer expectations while driving continuous process improvement throughout the transactional delivery system. Value stream map the DI workflow and develop individual projects along with the Value Stream Management team to drive faster, higher quality NPI (New Product Introduction), ITO (inquiry to order), and OTR (order to remittance) processes and improve Net Promoter Score. Facilitate DI Lean Showcases through organizational communication and action oriented lean training to drive the culture change through the 4000 person workforce. Implement continuous transactional quality improvement through the incorporation of customer requirements in all projects. Deliverables include ongoing measured transformation of key business processes, Lean principle adoption by employees, and developing leadership for cultural adoption within the $4B Global Healthcare Global DI business.~HJ~
REQUIREMENTS
Qualifications: BS degree
Black Belt or 7 years experience leading process improvements
Minimum 7 years experience working with Lean concepts and principles
7 Years Lean Teaching experience
Minimum 7 years experience simplifying strategy into simple actions
Unrestricted work authorization in the US, without sponsorship
Willingness to submit to and pass a drug test and educational, employment and criminal background checksDesired: Masters Degree
Working knowledge of Toyota Production System: JIT, Jidoka, & Heijunka
Hands on training in Japan with TPS tools & methodologies
Experience implementing Lean thinking in transactional and business processes using Value Stream Mapping, Poke-Yoke and Kanban
Experience building, empowering and leading talented cross functional teams
Strong Program Management and communication skills
Ability to build and promote organizational change management initiativesGeneral: Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $15 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 43,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. GE Healthcare Diagnostic Imaging is the largest of GE Healthcare's six business units. The business includes MR, CT, digital X-Ray, PET/CT and nuclear medicine imaging technologies, which help to precisely visualize anatomy and better diagnose disease and injuries. GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. Expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies helps clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest. GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. The vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention.
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