
Vice President, General Manager – Academics
GE HealthCare
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $240,000 - $360,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead the Academic Strategy: Define and execute GE HealthCare’s academic strategy for USCAN, aligning with global and regional business priorities.
- Position GE HealthCare as a Thought Leader: Build and strengthen relationships with key academic institutions, hospitals, and scientific societies to advance evidence generation, translational research, and innovation adoption.
- Accelerate Growth Across Academic Accounts: Elevate commercial excellence through account segmentation, targeted value propositions, and measurable growth strategies.
- Foster Strategic Partnerships: Cultivate early adopters and key opinion leaders (KOLs); establish reference sites that showcase GE HealthCare’s impact in clinical and research settings across care areas.
- Deliver a Differentiated Customer Experience: Ensure a seamless, value-driven engagement model that aligns GE HealthCare’s capabilities with academic and clinical needs.
- Champion Collaboration: Partner across product, commercial, marketing, and research teams to mobilize resources, share insights, and deliver integrated customer solutions.
- Ensure Compliance & Integrity: Maintain adherence to Research-Commercial policies, Quality, Regulatory, and integrity standards in all engagements.
- Drive Performance: Own revenue, margin, and orders targets for the academic segment; manage business plans that deliver sustained growth and customer success.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (PhD, MBA, JD, MS, MPH, MPP, or equivalent) strongly preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of progressive leadership experience in complex, research-intensive organizations (academic health systems, or healthcare industry).
- Proven track record of strategic leadership, including developing and executing commercially successful, multi-modality healthcare solutions and collaborations.
- Demonstrated excellence in communication, executive engagement, and cross-functional leadership.
- High credibility within the academic community and ability to demonstrate existing KOL relationships.
- Strong analytical, strategic, and critical thinking capabilities.
- Willingness and ability to travel 50%+.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- paid time off
- 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities
- life insurance
- disability insurance
- accident insurance
- tuition reimbursement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
strategic leadershipevidence generationtranslational researchcommercially successful healthcare solutionsanalytical skillsstrategic thinkingcritical thinking
Soft skills
communicationexecutive engagementcross-functional leadershiprelationship buildingcollaboration
Certifications
Bachelor's degreePhDMBAJDMSMPHMPP