Job Description Summary

As a member of the Medical & Scientific Affairs (MASA) team within the Office of Science and Technology, you are responsible for growing and maintaining healthy scientific partnerships with external researchers, key opinion leaders, and healthcare leadership through collaborative research and applied science.

You will oversee 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.

The sector for this position is: National Accounts. National accounts includes key large health systems and Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) operating primarily in the USA (typically with 20 or more hospitals). The sector includes scientific engagements across all of GE HealthCare (GEHC)’s product lines with primary areas of scientific focus being radiology, patient monitoring/solutions, and advanced digital & AI 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.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

The Medical & Scientific Affairs Director serves as liaison between product engineering, research and development teams, marketing and commercial teams, and external healthcare researchers in support of GE HealthCare’s scientific objectives. The primary responsibility is to own scientific engagement strategy, implementation, and long-term success at the national level.

• Serve as an independent (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.

• Conduct customer or collaborator facing presentations to articulate GEHC’s scientific objectives and collaboration opportunities.

• 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.

• Work with institution’s research and innovation leadership to establish mutually agreeable partnership-level structure, cross-modality scientific 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 in the assigned sector or region.

• Coordinate executive-level research interactions with key research partners including technology roadmap discussions, research steering meetings, and advisory councils.

• Coordinate regularly 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.

• Drive clinical acceptance of new technologies by establishing consortiums of key opinion leaders and GEHC stakeholders to generate clinical evidence and discuss clinical adoption activities.

• Identify external clinical opinions, perceptions and trends that influence GE HealthCare’s product and innovation strategies, performance in the market. Clearly communicate market intel with appropriate GEHC functions.

• Coordinate and manage advisory boards and other mechanisms of engagement with external stakeholders.

• 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 developing and implementing 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.).

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in technical discipline (e.g., medical physics, science, engineering) or a healthcare administration/management discipline (e.g., healthcare administration).
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in the medical technology or device industry (FDA experience qualifies).
• Depth of business acumen and demonstrate experience informing and communicating product, technology, innovation, and research needs and strategies to internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrate knowledge of applicable standards, laws and regulations governing research practices, compliance, and the separation of commercial and non-commercial activities.
• Demonstrate experience with excellent written and communication skills. You will interact across various stakeholder groups including C-level leaders and researchers in healthcare institutions, GEHC business CEOs and general managers, GEHC sales and marketing, and GEHC research personnel.
• Demonstrate strong project management skills and experience prioritizing work.
• Demonstrate experience indirectly managing and influencing across functional areas to align and determine priorities.
• Demonstrate knowledge of institutional research practices, including research involving human subjects.
• Demonstrate experience effectively critiquing research designs.
• Demonstrate knowledge of US healthcare systems and clinical practices related to patient care.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Teams, Excel and PowerPoint

Desired Characteristics:

• Advanced degree (e.g., PhD, MD, MS, MPH) in a technical discipline (e.g., medicine, engineering, data science, science, nursing).
• Previous experience in a senior role responsible for research or other external partnership and project management.
• Knowledge and experience with GE HealthCare products, research partners, and customers.

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.

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