Job Description Summary
The Sr. Research Manager – is responsible for defining strategy and overseeing the execution of academic research partnerships in China. This individual provides the interface between business segment, region leaders, and strategic collaborative academic partners to establish comprehensive research programs including regulation clinical trials with key opinion leaders. Critical responsibilities include profiling and introducing new strategic research partnerships, defining and governing collaborations, ensuring that site and investigator-specific research needs are met, and assuring studies are conducted in a timely, satisfactory, and compliant manner so as to provide high-impact research deliverables to the business.
This role shall not have any sales or marketing responsibilities.
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Essential Responsibilities
Seek out academic partners well-suited for GE partnership. Understand their strengths and collaboration interests. Work with collaborators and product teams to solicit investigator-initiated research proposals that are well-aligned with GE research needs.
Analysis NMPA regulation impacts and input, update and review global research procedures. Develop and drive the regulation clinical trials and NPI clinical evaluation with partners in China.
Develop and maintain research relationships with key academic research partners. Create a positive and thriving research experience. Nurture existing relationships. Identify and develop new relationships.
Establish governance and operating mechanisms with modalities and researchers to resolve issues, track achievements and deliverable impacts, and oversee payments or study logistics, where necessary.
Coordinate any research responses required as part of commercial inquiries, at arm’s length from the commercial sales or marketing engagement.
Act as primary Research Manager for GEHC cross-modality projects, or to ensure modality ownership and follow-through of modality-specific projects.
Be a source of external intelligence into GE Healthcare modalities, articulating academic institution’s research vision and initiatives. Assist GE in understanding the changing focus, needs, and expectations of key research partners and the region.
Ensure commercial team is kept informed of site research activity, through communications, op mechs, or appropriate methods - in accordance with compliance measures.
Comply with the GEHC Quality Manual, Quality Management System, Quality Management Policy, Quality Goals, and applicable laws and regulations as they apply to this job type/position
Qualifications/Requirements
Advanced technical, business or clinical degree (M.S., Ph.D., M.D.) with 10 years industry experience in Product Development, clinical research or related area. Equivalent customer-facing leadership experience may be appropriate.
Clinical Domain expertise in Oncology, Interventional Radiology, Cardiology and Neurology with specific product and technical knowledge of imaging systems (MR, MICT preferred) and diagnostic medical devices.
Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and across professional and executive levels of an organization; ability to influence and coordinate resources in support of program objectives
Solid understanding of the GE Healthcare organization, including experience in imaging, diagnostics and software-related areas, or other similar diagnostic medical device business.
Project management experience within an engineering or research environment; demonstrated execution at meeting project goals while satisfying quality, performance, schedule, and budget CTQ’s
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrated excellence in customer support, responsiveness and engagement
Collaborative mindset and demonstrated ability to work effectively and professionally in a matrix environment.
Demonstrated clear thinking & problem-solving abilities: successfully led cross-functional projects/process improvement within operations function involving process improvement; able to quickly grasp new ideas
Desired Characteristics
Deep clinical and product development expertise
Experience working in multiple disciplines or businesses in Bio-tech MNC
More than 10 years accumulated experience in product development, R&D role or a clinical research role.
Familiarity with regulatory standards and prevailing laws governing research activities with healthcare providers in the region
Inclusion and Diversity
GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer where inclusion matters. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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.