About The Role

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