AIS ISC Global Head of Planning

This role provides enterprise-wide leadership for Planning, Materials Management, and Inventory Optimization across GE HealthCare, responsible for establishing the enterprise vision, governance framework, standards, and best practices that enable world-class supply chain planning performance.

Responsibilities

• Owns and executes the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process including monthly cycle execution, continuous improvement, and digital tool strategy & deployment; continue migration to more strategic, executive-level IBP execution and review.
• Facilitate efficient materials management through establishment of standards across the organization, optimizing for fully landed cost and use of cash.
• Drive best-in-class tool deployment (e.g., Kinaxis) and adoption across factories.
• Provide leadership to master data and collaborate across planning teams, plants, regions, and sourcing on an overall data management strategy; continue to lead evolution of finished-goods planning.
• Drive development of Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) process, roles & responsibilities, and deployment across GE HealthCare, collaborating with plants and regions.
• Serve as a catalyst for rolling execution driven by customer dates; separate near-term execution from S&OP planning and drive digital strategy in this space.
• Coordinate with finance teams, FP&A, sub-segments, and senior leaders on inventory management.
• Lead and engage a global team of planning professionals, owning development and career growth of team members.
• Provide thought leadership across Integrated Supply Chain (ISC), segments, and regions to leverage go-to-market and planning strategies to cost-effectively meet customer needs.
• Lead the global material planning & inventory team to optimize network health, inventory, on-time delivery, and other key metrics.
• Own the planning and inventory value stream: drive lean culture, continuous improvement, and leverage technology to advance the value stream.
• Drive and be accountable for operational excellence of assigned program(s), including project reviews, feasibility, cost-benefit analysis, prioritization, initiation, execution, and closure.
• Work closely with global partners to integrate digital systems roadmaps and strategies, leveraging platform scalabilities.
• Clearly communicate program status, issues, risks, plans, etc., to senior management.
• Manage budgets and contracts associated with program(s) or initiative(s).
• Manage activities of project team resources to support and deliver solutions relating to the program(s).
• Maintain effective working relationships with peers and vendors to seamlessly integrate the program area into the overall strategic objectives.
• Coordinate program support activities, including development of internal and external communications, roadmaps, benchmarks, implementation, testing, training plans, and transition to support and maintenance teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or operations field with a minimum of 7 years of experience in an operations or supply chain leadership role.
• Previous experience in materials planning preferred.
• Proven leadership skills including the ability to motivate cross-functional and international teams to achieve business goals.
• Strong business acumen, including a financial background.
• Understanding of Healthcare Service business and FDA-regulated industry.

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

Pay

For U.S.-based positions, the pay range for this position is $224,000.00–$336,000.00 annually. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range. Compensation decisions are dependent on skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This position may also be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, including cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives (LTI).

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off.
• 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities.
• Life, disability, and accident insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement.