Regional Senior Manager, Research & Scientific Affairs - Palo Alto

Job Description Summary

Activities contributing to the design and development of products and their interaction with the human body. Impacts approaches, projects and programs in the functional area or affected business organization and ways of working. Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. Has significant input into priorities. Guided by professional practices and policies that are shaped by the role. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

Job Description

Job Description Summary

As a member of the Research & Scientific Affairs team within the Office of Science and Technology, this role is responsible for maintaining and operating healthy scientific partnerships with external researchers and key opinion leaders through collaborative research and applied science.

This role supports strategy implementation for cross-modality research and scientific (non-commercial) partnerships in the assigned region or sector in support of compliant and effective scientific engagement with external stakeholders to advance a common vision of helping clinicians provide the best patient care possible.

This role includes key academic and large healthcare systems throughout the Palo Alto and surrounding region. The sector includes scientific engagements across all of GE HealthCare (GEHC)’s product lines with primary areas of scientific focus in radiology, advanced digital & AI solutions, and patient monitoring/solutions.

GE HealthCare is a medical technology and diagnostics business creating a world where healthcare has no limits. By partnering with the world’s experts in health care, we accelerate the impact of our scientific and research initiatives beyond what GEHC or our clinical partners could achieve independently. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

Essential Responsibilities

The Research & Scientific Affairs Senior Manager serves as a liaison between product engineering and research & development teams, marketing & commercial teams, and external healthcare researchers in support of GE HealthCare’s scientific objectives. The primary responsibility is to implement the defined scientific engagement strategy and enable operations for healthy long-term success at an academic site level.

• Serve as a (without commercial objectives) enabler of scientific exchange with healthcare professionals, healthcare institutions, and healthcare research entities in support of GEHC’s scientific and innovation/product objectives.
• Identify partners and projects based on robust product, technology, and research strategies aligned with GEHC’s scientific objectives and engage the appropriate GEHC product stakeholders for consideration/discussion.
• Collaborate with the Director, Research & Scientific Affairs to inform and shape scientific strategy. Responsible for implementing and operationalizing strategy at the academic site level.
• Maintain operating mechanisms for research program management including milestone progress and payment tracking to compliantly meet research payment and reporting responsibilities.
• Work with institution’s research and innovation operations teams to establish and support governance of cross-modality partnership agreements (e.g., master research agreements), success metrics, and operating mechanisms to ensure sustainable productive scientific engagement.
• Maintain consistency of scientific engagements with key opinion leaders and scientific and clinical personnel in the assigned sector or region.
• Seek opportunities to collaborate with KOLs on joint government grant submissions and coordinate process for submission.
• Organize and provide supporting content for executive-level research interactions with key research partners including technology roadmap discussions, research steering meetings, and advisory councils.
• Interface with regional customer-facing teams to ensure compliant exchange of information and coordination where appropriate.
• Connect researchers and key opinion leaders with GEHC’s marketing and product businesses in support of speaker/advisory activities, co-authorship, education programs, and other non-commercial collaboration opportunities.
• Identify opportunities for clinical acceptance of new technologies in collaboration with KOLs and GE Healthcare to generate clinical evidence.
• Participate in industry activities (speak at events, join task groups, R&E, GERRAF, LEAD, etc.) on behalf of GEHC.
  
  

Ideal candidates will have both strong research and operational understanding of the market’s healthcare trends as it relates to GEHC’s product portfolio and applications. They will have a proven track record of implementing and operationalizing programs that delivered strong and identifiable business impact. Finally, the ideal candidate should have a background in medical/scientific affairs or research collaborations management from within the medical device industry (e.g., radiology, patient monitoring, radiation therapy, etc.) or experience conducting research at an academic institution.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Degree in technical discipline (e.g., medical physics, science, engineering) or a healthcare focused discipline (e.g., healthcare administration, public health)
• Experience in the medical technology or device industry (FDA experience qualifies) or research experience in medical technology. (4+ years is a good reference for level of experience).
  
  

Desired Characteristics

• Advanced degree (e.g., Masters, PhD, MD) in a technical discipline (e.g., medicine, engineering, data science, science, nursing – radiology preferred)
• Previous experience in a role responsible for research or other external partnership and project management
• Knowledge and experience with GE HealthCare products, research partners, and customers
• Ability to inform and communicate product, technology, innovation, and research needs and strategies to internal and external stakeholders
• Knowledge of applicable standards, laws and regulations governing research practices, compliance, and the separation of commercial and non-commercial activities
• Excellent written and communication skills across various stakeholder groups including customer facing / relationship building skills
• Program management experience, or experience managing initiatives through matrixed environment for on time and effective deliverables
• Strong project management skills and ability to prioritize work
• Ability to indirectly manage and influence across functional areas to align and determine priorities
• Knowledge of institutional research practices, including research involving human subjects
• Ability to effectively critique research designs and redirect
• Knowledge of US healthcare systems and clinical practices related to patient care
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Teams, Excel and PowerPoint
  
  

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership –always with unyielding integrity.

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. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration and support.

For U.S. based positions only, the pay range for this position is $145,456.00-$218,184.00 Annual. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including skills, qualifications, experience and location. In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). GE HealthCare offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.

Additional Information

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.

GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.

Relocation Assistance Provided: No