Job Description Summary

The Materials Team Leader role is responsible for driving end-to-end materials management processes, ensuring operational excellence and continuous improvement across planning, purchasing, and inventory control while leading a group of Materials Leaders. This position requires strong expertise in Oracle systems, supply/demand planning, Plan for Every Part Ownership, and Lean methodologies. The job allows modification of procedures and practices covering work as long as the end results meet standards of acceptability (quality, volume, timeliness etc.).

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Job Description

Responsibilities

• Managing direct material purchasing, planning parameters,

• Leads fulfillment of all customer orders for products or a Region, providing detailed monthly and quarterly fulfilment forecasts to manufacturing and materials teams and/or the Regional Commercial Operations function.

• Reports production build plan and forecast to Senior Management highlighting variances to OP or FC.

• Manages finished goods inventory levels globally for a particular group of products or regionally for all products across plants and warehouses.

• Leads inventory management for a all modalities across the Repair Operations Center

• Leads cross-functional team to define, prioritize, and track closure of fulfilment issues in supply chain.

• Influence and communicate well with all levels of the organization including senior leadership, acting as primary supply chain owner for the product portfolio or Region.

• Responsible for the product forecasting process and flow down from regional Commercial teams to manufacturing teams and reviewing/communicating forecast accuracy.

• Facilitating NCR and MRB processes, supporting engineering changes (ECR/ECN), and overseeing material transfers for NPI programs.

• Acting as a subject matter expert (SME) in Oracle transactions, auto-release, min/max forecasting, and financial implications on P&L.

• Driving lean initiatives, leading Kaizen events, and creating standard work to optimize material flow.

• Coaching and developing materials specialists and leaders, promoting career growth and leadership behaviors.

• Championing continuous improvement, change management, and strategic sourcing to eliminate obsolescence and shortages.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 3 years Supply Chain Experience or leadership, or High School diploma/GED and 7 years Supply Chain Experience, or GE Leadership Program employee or graduate.

• Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams.

• Demonstrated experience identifying and implementing Best Practices and deal with high levels of ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracle SME for coaching and developing Materials Leaders and Basic Knowledge of shipping / receiving and materials flow of the site.

• SME in understanding of Planning / Execution within Oracle and the transactions.

• Understanding of the P&L statement and how transactions affect financials for a site.

• Obso understanding and execution of eliminating obso driven through sharing/ Use / Scrap.

• In depth knowledge of creating/ reporting DMS KPI's along with Action Driven results.

• Understand Career growth and leadership Behaviors.

• Promotor of change and challenging status quo.

• Experience with Lean and Continuous Improvement.

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Additional Information

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.