Senior Director, NPI Management System

GE HEALTHCARE • Waukesha, WI

39d

About The Position

Heartbeat is GE HealthCare’s proprietary business system—our standard way of working together to deliver on our commitments to people, patients and customers. Our vision is to accelerate innovation as part of GE HealthCare’s heartbeat, empowering every team to continuously improve, solve challenges, and create meaningful outcomes for patients and customers. The Innovation Management System (IMS) leads this transformation by defining, developing, deploying, and strengthening the processes that power our Innovation Roadmap. We unlock the full capability of GE HealthCare by identifying the best ways of working across the enterprise and elevating them into adaptable standards that drive lasting impact.
As the enterprise leader for the New Product Introduction (NPI) Management System, you will define, deploy, and continuously improve the late-stage innovation operating model for GE HealthCare, covering Product Concept (phase M0) through Full Product release at volume (M4). This role owns the systems, processes, governance, and performance mechanisms that ensure disciplined, predictable, and high-impact delivery of NPIs to market, aligned with GE HealthCare’s Innovation roadmap, Heartbeat business system, and Phase Review Discipline (PRD).
You will partner with and influence across GE HealthCare to institutionalize best-in-class NPI execution across hardware, software, digital, and platform-based products. This includes advancing Lighthouse NPIs and scaling Digital Beacon Products and NPIs as exemplars of speed, quality, and customer impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, or Business required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in MedTech R&D, product development, program management, or product management.
• Deep expertise leading late-stage innovation and NPIs in a regulated medical device environment.
• Strong working knowledge of design controls, regulatory requirements, quality systems, and global launch execution.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide operating systems and complex change initiatives.
• Proven ability to influence and lead at executive and enterprise levels.

Nice To Haves

• Execution-focused leader with strong systems thinking capability.
• Data-driven decision maker with strong financial and business acumen.
• Comfortable operating in complex, matrixed global organizations.
• Passionate about delivering differentiated innovation to customers and patients.
• Recognized leader able to translate strategy into disciplined execution.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the enterprise NPI Management System for late-stage innovation (M0 to M4) in full alignment with Heartbeat and PRD, improving execution consistency and enabling predictable program outcomes.
• Define, standardize, and sustain NPI processes, governance forums, and decision rights across all GE HealthCare segments to reduce ambiguity and increase decision velocity.
• Institutionalize Lighthouse NPI concepts to demonstrate best-in-class execution, accelerate learning cycles, and strengthen confidence in new product delivery.
• Establish and scale Digital Beacon Products and NPIs as models for software, AI, and digital-first development, enabling faster iteration and higher-quality digital releases.
• Lead portfolio execution mechanisms to ensure funded NPIs deliver committed scope, schedule, quality, and financial outcomes, driving improved return on innovation investment.
• Partner with the IMS Tools Senior Director to advance tiered visual management, standard KPIs, and escalation mechanisms that increase transparency and accelerate problem-solving.
• Collaborate with IMS, R&D, Product Management, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Services to ensure cross-functional alignment and seamless execution throughout the NPI lifecycle.
• Drive enterprise change management to ensure adoption of NPI practices, build organizational capability, and enable continuous improvement.
• Apply Lean principles, including standard work, flow, built-in quality, visual management, and problem-solving, to elevate NPI execution and reduce waste and cycle time.
• Continuously benchmark and integrate best practices from leading MedTech companies to strengthen NPI performance and maintain competitive advantage.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director