Head of Business Operations, Advanced Imaging Solutions

Job Description Summary The Head of Business Operations, Advanced Imaging Solutions (AIS), reports to the GVP and President of AIS and serves as the operating integrator for the ~$15B global segment. The leader translates AIS priorities into disciplined execution and measurable outcomes, connecting leadership cadence, performance management, Lean deployment, cross-functional alignment, decision-making, and value realization across six subsegments and key enterprise functions.

The role works closely with the AIS CFO, Head of Strategy & Transformation, and enterprise partners to deliver the current quarter and year plans and sustain capabilities transitioned from Strategy & Transformation. The role owns the setup and effective, consistent deployment of AIS Heartbeat, GE Health Care’s proprietary business system and standard way of operating. It leads the AIS Lean function, aligns resources to the highest-impact priorities, and builds the understanding, capability, accountability, and operating discipline needed to realize and sustain results.

• Own AIS Business Operations and Heartbeat
• Serve as the execution partner to the GVP and President of AIS, establishing focus, alignment, accountability, and follow-through on the critical few priorities.
• Lead and continuously improve the AIS leadership cadence, including staff meetings, operating reviews, strategic priority reviews, and other forums required to run the business effectively.
• Translate AIS priorities into clear operating mechanisms, decision rights, owners, milestones, resource requirements, risks, and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure leadership forums are decision-oriented and supported by clear objectives, pre-reads, actions, escalation paths, and follow-through.
• Lead the Business Operations team and develop the standard work, management information, and capabilities required to support AIS leaders.
• Improve transparency and decision quality through integrated reports, dashboards, and analytical tools.
• Integrate and Drive Priority Execution Maintain an integrated view of AIS’s highest-priority execution topics across subsegments, functions, and enterprise partners.
• Ensure critical priorities have clear ownership, resources, milestones, decision rights, dependencies, risks, and measurable outcomes.
• Track execution progress and value realization, surface gaps early, and drive corrective action.
• Identify duplication, friction, competing priorities, resource constraints, and unclear ownership; then drive resolution.
• Drive alignment across AIS subsegments and enterprise functions, clarify interfaces and handoffs, and resolve cross-functional barriers.
• Partner with Strategy & Transformation to connect transformation priorities to the broader AIS agenda.
• As net-new capabilities move from design and proof to sustainment, ensure their playbooks, tools, standards, and ownership models are embedded into ongoing AIS operations.
• Lead Heartbeat, Lean Deployment, and Outcome Realization Own the setup and effective, consistent deployment of AIS Heartbeat, building shared understanding and capability to apply its tools and practices across the organization.
• Lead and develop the AIS Lean function, directing resources toward opportunities with the greatest strategic importance, value potential, urgency, scalability, and ability to sustain results.
• Ensure Lean initiatives have clear charters, baselines, targets, milestones, accountable business owners, and benefit measures.
• Integrate Heartbeat deployment so priorities, resource needs, risks, decisions, and realized benefits are visible to AIS leaders.
• Ensure Lean-supported initiatives deliver measurable and sustained improvements in growth, productivity, quality, delivery, customer impact, and…