Lean Leader - Transformation - GE Healthcare, Dubai

Lean Leader - Transformation - GE Healthcare, Dubai; Dubai; On-site; AED 220,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

GE HealthCare is seeking a Lean Leader - Transformation to coach, drive and lead lean practices across international operations. You will own the Kaizen funnel, collaborate with Gemba teams and leadership, and champion a lean mindset to accelerate performance improvements.

Responsibilities include maintaining the funnel, prioritising kaizen charters, and guiding execution while ensuring sustained handover to operational teams and a culture of continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations Management.
• Lean certification is a plus but not a prerequisite.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in a functional role with proven lean practice in a commercial environment or operations.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the transformation system for GEHC International, focusing on value streams and Kaizen funnel.
• Coach and mentor Lean practitioners, sustain transformations, and ensure handover to operational teams.
• Organize and run transformation reviews with International leadership; sharpen the roadmap.

Skills

Lean Mindset

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Strategic & Hands-On

Outstanding Customer Focus

Business Simplification

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations Management

Job description

Job Opportunity Description

This is an opportunity for a skilled Lean Leader - Transformation to coach, drive and lead lean behaviours, principles, and tools across operational and functional areas. Drive cultural transformation resulting in step-change in business performance.

About GE HealthCare

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 organisation where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

With over 100 years of healthcare industry experience, we operate at the center of an ecosystem working toward precision health. We are digitising healthcare, helping drive productivity and improving outcomes for patients, providers, health systems and researchers around the world.

Position Overview

As a Lean Leader, you will be responsible for driving the transformation system of GEHC International, supporting the Gemba Teams and Leadership to focus on the most important aspects of the value stream, owning the Kaizen funnel and roadmap, and ensuring execution on prioritised transformations. You will help accelerate the development of a Lean mindset across International, and act as catalyst of collaboration across functions, product segments and geographical zones.

Responsibilities

• Value Stream: Bring outstanding clarity on the value stream, identifying where we have opportunities for transformation, and crystallising these opportunities into the Kaizen funnel and the enterprise Project Plan. As always in value streams, make that assessment through the eyes of Customers.
• Kaizen Funnel: Maintain the funnel, ensure prioritisation with key stakeholders, move the funnel to execution by aligning the right resources and teams, and provide the relevant coaching and mentoring. Ensure we have to-the-point kaizen charters.
• Kaizen Execution: Support Kaizen leaders and teams with the preparation work. Provide lean leadership during Kaizens; support with the relevant Lean tools, methods and mindset. Ensure a culture of sustainment post-Kaizen, and that transformations are properly handed over to operational teams.
• Transformation Review: Organise and run the transformation reviews with the leadership team of International. Use these reviews to take key decisions, and to accelerate progress. Review the funnel and sharpen the roadmap.
• Lean Practitioners: Actively engage with, inspire and coach a broader bench of talented practitioners to further disseminate Lean across the organisation.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations Management, or a related field. Lean certification will be considered a plus but is not a pre-requisite.
• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience in a functional role (preferably in FP&A, commercial, services and/or operations) with a proven track record of successful lean practice in a commercial environment and/or operations.

Key Attributes

• Outstanding Customer Focus: Demonstrated commitment to understanding and exceeding customer expectations.
• Lean Mindset: Proven ability to apply a lean mindset effectively in various contexts is a pre-requisite.
• Business Simplification: Proven ability to reduce complexity and to improve efficiency and effectiveness in processes and business cadences.
• Stakeholder Management: Strong interpersonal skills to engage, influence, and collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
• Communication: Comfortable interacting with both field teams and executive leadership.
• Strategic and Hands-On Approach: Strategic thinker with the ability to execute plans in a hands-on manner to achieve tangible results.

Equal Opportunity Employment (EEO) Statement

GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Location & Details

Job Ref: 46296

Location: Dubai

Address: 1 Sheikh Zayed Rd - Trade Centre

Industry: Healthcare and NHS jobs, Management & Consultancy, Engineering jobs, Business Development & Commercial

Job category: Lean Management

Schedule: Full-time

Remote work: No

Relocation: No

Position type: Lean Leader - Transformation