Supplier Transformation Leader - #248942

Job Description Summary

Lead the transformation of supplier base towards excellence and predictability delivery, planning and inventory.

The Supplier Transformation Leader is pivotal in driving procurement transformation with our supplier base. The role will be responsible for driving excellence and predictability in supplier metrics such as but not restricted to on-time delivery, planning and inventory optimization.

This influencer-role will call for complex problem solving at various levels of the procurement process.

Job Description

GE HealthCare is a leading global innovator in medical technology and digital solutions with over 100 years of experience in the healthcare industry and around 50,000 employees worldwide.

We enable physicians to make faster and more informed decisions through smart devices, data analytics, applications, and services, supported by our Edison intelligence platform. We operate at the center of an ecosystem working towards precision health digitalization, helping to drive productivity and improve outcomes for patients, providers, healthcare systems, and researchers around the world.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to enhance on-time delivery with suppliers.
• Identify and lead transformational projects to resolve delivery, planning challenges at supplier’s.
• Collaborate with internal cross-functional team to identify opportunities to improve procurement/planning processes.
• Apply lean methodologies to solve complex issues within the supplier delivery process.
• Coach suppliers in lean problem-solving techniques.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to ensure supplier fulfillment operations are in line with organizational long term goals.
• Use data to bring visibility to progress in supplier planning and fulfillment.
• Educate leadership and internal stakeholders on progress, help needed, long term plans.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 7 years in supply chain operations, or sourcing or Lean.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Travel-ready 40% of the time.
• Excellent communication skills (Spanish and English) – oral, written. The role will be an influencer to external organizations viz., suppliers all the time.
• Strong execution mindset – drive to “win the week” every week.
  
  

Desired Characteristics

• Ability to influence internal and supplier teams at all levels – leadership, operational, execution.
• Lean leadership experience and/or Six Sigma experience.
• Experience in working with global supplier base.
• Strong analytical mindset. Strong working knowledge with Excel, Smartsheet, Power BI etc.
  
  

GE Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion is essential. This means that all decisions are made regardless of race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by providing the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you would expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you will be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration, and support.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus and master your activities, always with unwavering integrity.

At GE Healthcare, the request for medical certificates of non-pregnancy and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) as requirements for employment, retention, or promotion is prohibited.

Additional Job Description

Additional Information

Compensation Grade

LPB1

Relocation Assistance Provided: No