Job Description Summary

The CTO of the Maternal Infant Care (MIC) business is a key leader on the MIC staff and is the head of engineering and innovation for the business. The CTO provides engineering leadership across the engineering sites and to the extended cross functional team. The CTO requires excellent technical expertise across multiple engineering disciplines and technologies together with superior people, organizational and horizontal leadership skills, financial acumen, customer focus, program execution experience, and platform building expertise. In addition to technology and innovation leadership, the CTO is a key partner in shaping the overall MIC business strategy and aligning the engineering structure, processes and talent to achieve its short- and long-term goals. The CTO stays current with industry trends and clinical stakeholders to ensure alignment with both the latest technology trends as well as clinical practices.

Job Description

The CTO of the Maternal Infant Care (MIC) business is a key leader on the MIC staff and is the head of engineering and innovation for the business.  The CTO provides engineering leadership across the engineering sites and to the extended cross functional team.  The CTO requires excellent technical expertise across multiple engineering disciplines and technologies together with superior people, organizational and horizontal leadership skills, financial acumen, customer focus, program execution experience, and platform building expertise.  In addition to technology and innovation leadership, the CTO is a key partner in shaping the overall MIC business strategy and aligning the engineering structure, processes and talent to achieve its short- and long-term goals.  The CTO stays current with industry trends and clinical stakeholders to ensure alignment with both the latest technology trends as well as clinical practices.

GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our purpose is to create a world where healthcare has no limits. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead a product focused global engineering organization that is responsible for new product development, product line extensions, value engineering and sustaining engineering.
• Drive a culture of innovation, inclusion, collaboration, continual improvement and customer centricity across the engineering teams.  Drives a culture that ensures compliance to GEHC Quality Management System, industry standards and regulatory requirements; champions total product quality initiatives across the value chain for a world class customer experience.
• Drive platforming and modernization of technologies, engineering development infrastructure and engineering methodologies to enable product differentiation, engineering efficiency and business growth.
• Align engineering organizational design and talent strategy to achieve short term and strategic business goals.  Responsible for building the right talent mix through acquisition, development and retention.
• Partner with the MIC leadership team to drive cross functional teaming across programs and initiatives that span the total product lifecycle.
• Accountable for a significant direct budget, with full responsibility for forecasting, cost management, scenario planning, modeling and target achievement.
• Develops peer, cross-functional and cross-SBU and GE Healthcare relationships to maximize business outcomes, best practice sharing and team effectiveness.

 

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline.
• 10+ years progressive leadership experience in product design engineering and engineering operations, or engineering-related fields
• Demonstrated leadership bringing technology ideas that influence success, within a regulated industry.
• Experience leading large organization within a global matrixed structure
• Ability to lead leaders with technical, clinical, operational and business backgrounds.
• Strong Financial Acumen
• Highly effective in working horizontally – and ultimately, building product and technology enterprise solutions
• Analytical, creative and business-focused problem solver
• Ability to learn complex systems and business processes and define requirements for solutions
• Lean orientation - diligently focused on engineering efficiency and related strategies
• Proven as a trusted business partner and technical advisor
• Strong, clear and simple communicator who operates as a credible and respected spokesperson internally and externally, both to internal stakeholders and the marketplace

 

Desired Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Engineering or related field
• Experience in Medical Device Product development processes and standards
• Experience in systems engineering, service engineering, hardware, embedded software, enterprise IT systems and digital solutions.
• Understanding of clinical workflows and demonstrated clinical and customer orientation
• Experience building technology platforms

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.