Director, Enterprise Portfolio Governance & Operations

Job Description Summary

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.

The Director, Enterprise Portfolio Governance & Operations serves as GE HealthCare’s enterprise expert, system owner, and operational excellence leader for the Broadcom Clarity Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) platform for GE HealthCare’s R&D efforts. Partnering closely with Finance, IT, R&D, Product Management, and Innovation Management System (IMS) teams, this role ensures PPM is effectively used across the full GE HealthCare innovation lifecycle—from pre‑M0 through M9—to drive transparency, governance, resource planning, investment prioritization, and strategic alignment.

GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to create a world where healthcare has no limits. 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.

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Serve as GE HealthCare’s enterprise PPM expert with end-to-end knowledge of portfolio road mapping, investment management, resource planning, real-time reporting, and configurable workflows to ensure a scalable and high-performing system.
• Provide strategic guidance on PPM configuration, customization, and alignment with GE HealthCare business processes so that workflows enable rather than hinder portfolio execution.
• Act as the central liaison between Segments and STO for structure changes, value stream mapping, and impact assessments, improving organizational coherence and reducing rework.
• Provide strategic analysis and insights on R&D programs using PPM data to drive informed portfolio decisions and identify opportunities for improved performance.
• Enable analysis of cycle time, business case adherence, and lifecycle progression to support future AI-augmented R&D practices and improve predictability of program outcomes.
• Proactively deliver insights from PPM data, including comparisons of Lighthouse NPI’s (GE HealthCare’s most important) and all NPI programs, to identify trends, risks, and execution gaps before they impact the business.
• Develop, maintain, and globally deploy SOPs, process maps, and user guidance while ensuring that enterprise standards do not conflict with decentralized operating models and that segments retain appropriate autonomy.
• Partner with IMS Tools Senior Director, WWPP Finance, IT, and segment leaders to create standard work for portfolio governance and operational mechanisms that improve consistency and transparency.
• Define and build a global superuser network, including certification programs, training pathways, and expert forums, to scale PPM capability across GE HealthCare and reduce reliance on central support teams.
• Drive new user onboarding, enterprise training, and usability improvements to increase adoption of best-known operating practices and accelerate time to productivity.
• Continuously benchmark and integrate best practices from MedTech, enterprise PMOs, and Broadcom Clarity resources to ensure GE HealthCare maintains world-class PPM standards and remains competitive.
• Support pre-M0 through M9 execution with standardized project structures, investment hierarchy guidance, workflows, and dashboards that improve portfolio predictability and decision accuracy.
• Ensure data quality, system governance, and operating discipline across all PPM users and segments, strengthening trust in portfolio data and enabling reliable enterprise reporting.
• Lead continuous improvement cycles to simplify configuration, improve reporting accuracy, and deliver stronger strategic portfolio insights that inform enterprise-level planning.

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, IT, Business, or related field; advanced degree preferred.

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise project/portfolio management, PMO leadership, IT systems ownership, or similar roles.
• Hands‑on expertise with enterprise PPM systems (preferably Broadcom Clarity PPM) including configuration, workflows, and reporting.
• Strong experience in process design, SOP creation, value‑stream mapping, and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated success leading cross‑functional change and driving standard work across global organizations.

Desired Characteristics:

• Recognized expert in project/portfolio management systems with strong understanding of MedTech innovation lifecycles.
• Ability to translate complex processes into simple, intuitive user experiences and training programs.
• Strong communicator capable of influencing executives, IT architects, and engineering teams.
• Strategic thinker with ability to align tool usage to business outcomes, financial discipline, and innovation priorities.
• Passion for operational excellence, standardization, and enabling teams to deliver with clarity and confidence.

Inclusion and Diversity:

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.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviours: 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.

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