Job Description Summary

As a member of the Research & Scientific Affairs team within the Office of Science and Technology, this role is
responsible for growing and maintaining healthy scientific partnerships with external researchers, key opinion leaders,
and healthcare leadership through collaborative research and applied science.
This role oversees 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 Boston and the 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 leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our purpose 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

Essential Responsibilities

The Research & Scientific Affairs Director serves as 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 own scientific engagement strategy, implementation, and long-term success at the regional 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.

• Maintain operating mechanisms for research payment milestone tracking to compliantly meet research payment and reporting responsibilities.

• 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 technology trends, and licensing opportunities to influence GE HealthCare’s product and innovation strategies, and 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.).

Qualifications / Requirements

• Master’s degree in techni