Senior Program Manager - Ultrasound Probes

Job Description Summary

Drives initiatives to improve the effectiveness of the Engineering function and interfaces with other functions to provide effective coordination of metrics, dashboards, functional processes, and cross-functional initiative coordination. Owns/influences budgets and operating plans. The role is guided by operating policy. Works with cross functional teams. The role has autonomy within the operational area or a segment within a larger business unit. The role may have a major impact on a small business unit or Family within a Function or P&L. High levels of evaluative judgment and operational acumen are required to achieve outcomes.

Job Description

Senior Program Manager - Ultrasound Probes

Location: United States preferred; Europe considered | Global scope

About GE HealthCare Ultrasound

GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator, operating at the center of an ecosystem working toward precision health. Our Ultrasound business provides clinicians and healthcare systems with advanced ultrasound tools that deliver quality images, improved efficiency, and enhanced patient care.

The Ultrasound Probes organization plays a critical role in enabling differentiated imaging performance, clinical confidence, and product reliability across GE HealthCare's ultrasound portfolio.

Role Summary

The Senior Program Manager - Ultrasound Probes will lead complex, cross-functional programs across the global Probes organization. This role spans the full Probes portfolio and will work closely with Probes segment leaders, who serve as Product Managers, to translate business and portfolio priorities into disciplined execution.

The Senior Program Manager will drive strategic and operational initiatives across R&D, Product Management, Supply Chain, QARA, Manufacturing, Service, and Regions. Key areas of focus include complex NPI programs, Hoshin Kanri deployment, operating rhythm improvements, and embedding the HeartBeat operating principle into NPIs and other cross-functional programs.

This role requires a strong operational leader who can bring structure to complexity, align diverse stakeholders, manage multiple workstreams and swimlanes, and drive execution with rigor and transparency.

Key Responsibilities

Program Leadership & Execution

• Lead complex, cross-functional programs across the Ultrasound Probes organization, including NPIs, portfolio priorities, operational initiatives, and strategic deployment activities.
• Translate business priorities into clear program plans with defined scope, milestones, owners, deliverables, risks, and decision points.
• Manage multiple workstreams and swimlanes, ensuring strong execution discipline, timely escalation, and clear accountability.
• Establish and maintain program governance, dashboards, operating rhythms, and leadership review mechanisms.

Partnership with Segment Leaders / Product Managers

• Work closely with Probes segment leaders / Product Managers to align program execution with portfolio strategy, customer needs, product roadmaps, and business priorities.
• Support prioritization, trade-off discussions, resource alignment, and decision-making across segments and functions.
• Ensure product and segment priorities are translated into executable plans across R&D, Supply Chain, QARA, Manufacturing, Service, and Regions.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Serve as a key integrator across R&D, Product Management, Supply Chain, QARA, Manufacturing, Service, Finance, and regional teams.
• Facilitate alignment across global stakeholders, ensuring objectives, risks, dependencies, and decisions are clearly understood.
• Influence without direct authority in a global matrix environment.

Hoshin Kanri, HeartBeat & Operating Rhythm

• Support deployment of Hoshin Kanri priorities across the Probes organization by translating strategic objectives into measurable action plans and governance routines.
• Embed the HeartBeat operating principle into NPI and cross-functional program execution.
• Drive standard work, disciplined operating mechanisms, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement across program teams.

Risk Management & Compliance

• Identify program risks, interdependencies, resource constraints, and execution barriers.
• Lead mitigation planning, escalation, and countermeasure execution.
• Ensure programs are executed in alignment with applicable quality, regulatory, and product development requirements in a medical device environment.

Stakeholder Communication

• Provide concise, data-driven updates to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Develop program dashboards, milestone reviews, risk summaries, and decision documents.
• Communicate complex issues clearly, including options, trade-offs, recommendations, and required decisions.

Qualifications & Experience

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Business, Operations, or related discipline.
• Significant experience in program management, project management, operations, product development, or business execution in a medical device, healthcare technology, life sciences, or similarly regulated industry.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional, multi-site programs with multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
• Strong operational skillset, including program governance, milestone management, risk management, escalation, prioritization, and execution tracking.
• Experience working across functions such as R&D, Product Management, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Service, Finance, and Commercial/Regional teams.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority in a global matrix organization.

Desired Characteristics

• Advanced degree such as MBA, MSc, or equivalent experience.
• Program management certification or training such as PMP, Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, or equivalent.
• Experience with medical device product development, design controls, design transfer, regulatory submissions, manufacturing readiness, or post-market support.
• Experience with ultrasound, imaging systems, probes, transducers, or related healthcare technologies.
• Experience with Hoshin Kanri, strategy deployment, operating rhythms, Lean management, or enterprise transformation.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Strong problem-solving mindset, with the ability to bring clarity, structure, and momentum in complex environments.

Location

• Preferred location: United States
• Alternative location: Europe
• The role is global in scope and may require travel to support program execution, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional collaboration.

Why Join Us

Join GE HealthCare's Ultrasound Probes organization to help drive strategic programs that shape the future of our probes portfolio. In this role, you will work across functions, segments, and regions to strengthen execution, accelerate innovation, and deliver technologies that improve clinical confidence and patient care.

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing and managing cross functional, technology led, or product focused programs. Manages budgets and interfaces with contractors, suppliers, customers and internal functions. Manages program resource and budget allocation/integration. Manages schedule, budget, and tollgate process for NPI, requisition, or sustaining programs. Influences the programs to meet customer CTQs.
• Developing expertise in own function. May include roles that are experts in their discipline, providing professional or thought leadership . Influences policy and ensures delivery within area of responsibility, linking with other parts of the organization.
• Interprets internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services. Utilizes understanding of industry trends to inform decision making process.
• Leads others to find creative solutions within complex manufacturing processes with technical variety and/or interdependent production cycles. Employs sophisticated operational/product management, manufacturing or engineering techniques. Interaction with adjacent functions needed to solve issues. Has the ability to evaluate quality of information received and questions conflicting data for analysis. Uses multiple internal and external resources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.
• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity. Presents business or technical discipline solutions to leaders. Communicates complex messages and negotiates mainly internally with others to adopt a different point of view. Influences peers to take action and may negotiate with external partners, vendors, or customers.

Required Qualifications

• This role requires significant experience in the Engineering/Technology & Program Management. Knowledge level is comparable to a Master's degree from an accredited university or college ( or a high school diploma with relevant experience in Product Management)
• Master's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 6 years of experience in Product Management

Desired Characteristics

• Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.
   

We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Additional Information

GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.

Relocation Assistance Provided: No