Director, PRD Implementation & Change Management

I00M05 Wipro GE Healthcare Private Limited; Karnataka; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

GE HealthCare invites an experienced PRD Implementation & Change Management Leader to guide global PRD and Product Lifecycle processes across the organization. You will drive adoption, training, and learning while partnering with senior leadership to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.

You will lead cross‑functional teams, champion quality culture, implement standardized procedures, and monitor regulatory trends to maintain robust product development discipline within a regulated

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or a minimum of 10 years of work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years working in a regulated medical device industry.
• Minimum of 5 years supervisory, management, or program leadership experience.
• Experience as a Lead System Designer or significant multi‑function core team leadership.
• Experience across the entire product lifecycle.
• Experience as an Installed Base Engineering Leader or equivalent role.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the PRD Design Senior Director and the IMS team to drive global PRD and Product Lifecycle processes and the enterprise learning strategy.
• Ensure that PRD processes and tools support user‑centered, customer‑centered, compliant, and efficient design and development practices.
• Collaborate across all SBUs, GEHC Digital, Service, Quality, Regulatory, and Technology teams to deliver global high‑priority changes.
• Champion a quality‑driven and customer‑focused culture by defining and implementing PRD and Product Lifecycle processes that elevate design rigor and user experience.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve global procedures, work instructions, guidance, and learning materials.
• Provide consistent and timely global messaging regarding PRD and Product Lifecycle standard work, and enforce processes and metrics that enable measuring and improving performance.
• Lead and implement improvements across the product development lifecycle from Idea through End of Product Life to ensure continuity, compliance, and adoption of enhanced practices.
• Engage closely with the IMS team to deploy standard work that strengthens product development discipline.
• Partner with senior leadership to define strategic PRD and lifecycle process changes, presenting recommendations, risks, and program status.
• Actively involve end users in decision making, pilot cycles, feedback loops, and iterative refinements.
• Monitor external industry and regulatory trends and represent GE HealthCare with regulators, standards bodies, or industry working groups.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly and guide teams to adopt new perspectives using Change Acceleration Process (CAP) methodologies.
• Lead teams to identify innovative solutions to complex problems and coach and develop team members.
• Build inclusive and diverse program teams that reflect GE HealthCare’s culture.
• Support regulatory inspections, inquiries, and reportable events by ensuring compliant documentation and traceability.

Skills

Leadership

Program management

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder management

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

CAP methodologies

Job description

Heartbeat is GE HealthCare’s proprietary business system and 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.

Overview

The Innovation Management System (IMS) leads the transformation by defining, developing, deploying, and strengthening the processes that power our Innovation Roadmap. The PRD Implementation & Change Management Leader serves as a global process, adoption, and change leader for GE HealthCare’s Phase Review Discipline and Product Lifecycle processes.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Partner with the PRD Design Senior Director and the IMS team to drive global PRD and Product Lifecycle processes and the enterprise learning strategy.
• Ensure that PRD processes and tools support user‑centered, customer‑centered, compliant, and efficient design and development practices.
• Collaborate across all SBUs, GEHC Digital, Service, Quality, Regulatory, and Technology teams to deliver global high‑priority changes.
• Champion a quality‑driven and customer‑focused culture by defining and implementing PRD and Product Lifecycle processes that elevate design rigor and user experience.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve global procedures, work instructions, guidance, and learning materials.
• Provide consistent and timely global messaging regarding PRD and Product Lifecycle standard work, and enforce processes and metrics that enable measuring and improving performance.
• Lead and implement improvements across the product development lifecycle from Idea through End of Product Life to ensure continuity, compliance, and adoption of enhanced practices.
• Engage closely with the IMS team to deploy standard work that strengthens product development discipline.
• Partner with senior leadership to define strategic PRD and lifecycle process changes, presenting recommendations, risks, and program status.
• Actively involve end users in decision making, pilot cycles, feedback loops, and iterative refinements.
• Monitor external industry and regulatory trends and represent GE HealthCare with regulators, standards bodies, or industry working groups.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly and guide teams to adopt new perspectives using Change Acceleration Process (CAP) methodologies.
• Lead teams to identify innovative solutions to complex problems and coach and develop team members.
• Build inclusive and diverse program teams that reflect GE HealthCare’s culture.
• Support regulatory inspections, inquiries, and reportable events by ensuring compliant documentation and traceability.

Educational Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree or a minimum of 10 years of work experience.

Required Skills

• Minimum of 5 years working in a regulated medical device industry.
• Minimum of 5 years supervisory, management, or program leadership experience.
• Experience as a Lead System Designer or significant multi‑function core team leadership.
• Experience across the entire product lifecycle.
• Experience as an Installed Base Engineering Leader or equivalent role.

Desired Characteristics

• Advanced degree or certification/training in Engineering, Science, or Technology.
• Experience leading and executing product lifecycle processes within the medical device industry.
• Familiarity with Design Controls, Risk Management, product development/NPI, and product lifecycle management.
• Experience planning and executing change management efforts across a business.
• Expertise in process design and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Established process development and project management skills.
• Experience with ISO 13485, US 21 CFR 820, and other applicable regulations.
• Demonstrated ability to define, communicate, and execute strategy under crisis while ensuring compliance.
• Experience working cross‑functionally with ability to influence and build consensus.
• Excellent communication skills: presentation, verbal, and written.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills; ability to motivate and develop teams.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve complex problems.

Inclusion and Diversity

GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.

Benefits

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world‑changing realities.

Additional Information

Relocation assistance: Not provided.