Job Vacancies at GE

Job Description Summary

• You will work within the East and Southern African region in order to drive growth of channels and GE Healthcare product portfolio, drive financial results, ensure compliance and be accountable for keeping the risk profile within the region norms and standards as well as driving channel effectiveness, competence and reach. You’ll own the Go To Market through the various indirect channels in the designated region and lead a team of Channel account managers.
• You will be based in Johannesburg or Nairobi

Job Description
Essential responsibilities

• Deploy the channel strategy and initiatives with co-development and guidance of Channel management Center of Excellence
• Be responsible for growth, coverage and penetration of the end user market within the channel segment
• Be responsible for management and development of channel account teams.
• Ensure strong Account plan discipline with channel partner and channel account teams.
• Provide strategic leadership on Channel partner vision, deployment and support strategies, training requirements and execution and utilization of resources
• Evaluate channel partner efficiency and delivery and constantly evaluate the portfolio on various parameters including effective coverage, care area segmentation, performance of the dealer feet on street
• Enhance the utilization of existing channels with a view to integrate and simplify where appropriate, help formulate strategies for identifying, developing and managing new channels by leveraging synergies in your region
• Monitor channel effectiveness and improvement initiatives
• Develop and Drive Op Mechs for performance reviews with channel partners
• Ensure effectiveness of recruitment, onboarding and management of channels inside the region.
• Ensure a healthy pipeline of alternative distribution channels- long-term and spot
• Analyze territories and maintain in conjunction with country leadership and appropriate coverage models
• Identify potential Channel Partners, recruit, qualify and facilitate thru appointment process including gaining necessary approvals
• Ensure channel partner sales force effectiveness/skills and coordinate with modality teams for product certification programs
• Track and communicate market trends, to/from field including competitor data, and develop and lead effective counter-strategies.
• Embrace and implement Channel Partner management best practices
• Responsible for forecasting based on channel prospects.  Adept in calling estimates with Risks and Opportunities.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze customer data and develop financially sound sales offers
• Assist channel partners in finding complementing products to offer comprehensive portfolio to customers.
• Mapping of competition channel partners, their strengths and weaknesses.
• Maintain and nourish relationships with KOLs in the assigned business segment/territory

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor degree or above
• At least 5 years’ experience in Healthcare related sales
• Experience in direct sales or through channel partners of multiple products in Healthcare imaging equipment
• Experience in leading a sales team and channel partner teams to achieve business goals.
• Demonstrated experience and success in the management of alternative sales channels of multiple products in Healthcare imaging equipment sales.
• Experienced strategic leadership skills
• Exceptional skills as a change agent and process oriented individual
• Fluent in English and local language speaking
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Customer focused mindset with proven ability to respond quickly to internal and external customer needs
• Ability to build rapport, energize and influence people
• Strong ethics, integrity and compliance orientation
• Takes initiatives, accountability and responsibility for own work.
• Strong presentation, coordination, commercial, analytical, negotiation, problem solving and influencing skills.
• Must be highly motivated, results driven, energetic and capable of multi-tasking in a dynamic, rapidly growing organization.
• Strong knowledge and experience of end to end sales process and working with cross functional teams (Order to Remittance, Finance, Services, Country sales, Inquiry To Order etc.)
• Successful experience in multi-stakeholder environment
• Analytical and clear-thinking skills with the ability to synthesize complex issues into simple solutions and messages.
• Demonstrate ability to work independently

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, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
• 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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Job Description Summary

• The primary responsibility of the Resource Manager is to develop competitive strategies to effectively support hiring, training , assigning and retaining employees for the OSS business. The Resource Manager will work closely with Customers, Service Managers, recruitment, HR and Service Directors to accomplish these objectives.
• All resources, and logistics required to perform services and maintenance activities on customers' site/property. These activities contribute to, maintain, repair and refurbish sold or existing products. Includes all types of maintenance service (preventive and remedial), manage maintenance facilities and field services engineering. Impacts approaches, projects and programs in the functional area or affected business organization and ways of working. Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. Has significant input into priorities. Guided by professional practices and policies that are shaped by the role. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities

Effectively manage a variable workforce of Winders throughout Middle East & Africa, to maintain a world class, highly mobile team.

• Look after the optimal utilization of the team
• Staffing job assignments.
• Interacts with COE when resources are needed
• Support recruiting.
• Work scheduling
• Outage planning
• Utilizing workload forecasting and projected supply of resources, ensure future resource demands are met, specifically:
• Interface with customer in order to schedule and coordinate equipment and personnel movement to meet customer’s requirements
• Provide work direction to winders to effectively resolve conflicts and motivate individuals to perform as a team
• Schedule and coordinate routine and emergency equipment maintenance activities
• Maximize the effectiveness of the field operation through careful project planning and leveraging of entire Inspection Services team to minimize costs and increase overall customer satisfaction
• Effectively communicate with the customer, Inspection Services headquarters personnel, and GE site representatives during pre-job planning, inspection execution, and post outage meetings
• Provide accurate billing information to the accounting center for proper invoicing of inspection projects.
• Support, track, drive and take lead on visa processing, renewals, site gate pass.
• Developing annual hiring plans with input from the P&L, ITO, customers
• Manage and track the utilization of employees.
• Also, develop methods and seek opportunities for cross-utilization of employees across other segments.
• Provide periodic reports to senior management on the status of resources, forecast and demand.

Required Qualifications

• Experience as Generator specialist
• Experience in Generator winding operations.
• Experience in electro-mechanical operations of various types relating to low voltage test operations
• Experience of Generator testing , and inspections.
• Excellent Spoken, Written Skills in English
• Must have strong skills in written and oral communication, critical thinking.
• Must be able to handle multiple projects/assignments concurrently and be very results-oriented. The candidate will be highly motivated and work well both independently and in a team environment.
• Willingness to travel when required

Desired Characteristics

• Has the knowledge and skill to actively support.
• Experience and training on Alstom, Siemens, or other OEM equipment is preferred
• Very Good attitude to manage relationships with customers, concerning technical and contractual aspects.
• Follow up all quality aspects according to six sigma approach and GE QA manual and procedures.
• Working knowledge and application of EHS rules.
• Effective communication to HQs, through company e-tools
• Very Good organizational skills
• Prior project management experience
• Very Good project management skills
• Very Good oral and written communication skills
• Very Good interpersonal and leadership skills
• Very Good business acumen and ability to sell GE products to the customer
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, schedule, motivate and train others
• 4-year degree
• Project Management experience  
• Experience in a customer service organization
• Six Sigma Greenbelt

Additional Information

• Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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Job Description Summary

• Responsible for designing, building, delivering and maintaining software applications & services. Working in the areas of machine, cloud, platform and/or application. Responsible for software lifecycle including activities such as requirement analysis, documentation/procedures, implementation and quality assurance.
• Works independently and contributes to the immediate team and to other teams across business. You will also contribute to specification and design.

Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure
• Provide technical leadership as part of an agile team
• Translate requirements / vision into prioritized list of user stories and deliver to required timelines and quality standards
• Drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse
• Support process improvements which guide the development, sustaining & support activities
• Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables
• Drive world-class quality in the development and support of products
• Collaborate with system engineers, frontend developers and software developers to implement solutions that are aligned with and extend shared platforms and solutions
• Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques
• Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
• Build and test features such as applications, web services, front-ends and queries on existing tables
• Understand performance parameters and assess application performance
• Work on core data structures and algorithms and implement them using language of choice as relevant
• Proactively share information across the team, to the right audience with the appropriate level of detail and timeliness

Education Qualification

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with extensive experience as a senior software engineer.

Desired Characteristics

Required Technical Expertise:

• Extensive experience with the following programming languages: C++, C# 
• Extensive experience with the following database management systems: MS SQL Server
• Extensive experience with relational database design and writing and maintaining efficient queries using SQL
• Experience with front-end technologies such as Javascript, HTML5, CSS, AngularJS
• Experience with modern tooling (Maven, Git, Jenkins)
• Extensive experience with MS Visual Studio (or MS Visual Studio Code)
• Extensive experience with developing client/server applications and services for MS Windows Operating Systems.
• Experienced in building features such as web services and Queries on existing tables.
• Experienced with methods and practices such as Lean/Agile/XP, etc.
• Experienced in an agile environment and cross-functional Scrum team
• Experienced in continuous integration (CI).
• Understands the the impacts of technology choices to the software development life cycle.

Additional Beneficial (Optional) Technical Expertise:

• Experience with the following programming languages: Python, Java
• Experience with developing and maintaining software and services for Linux
• Experience with the following database management systems: Postgres, MySQL, Oracle
• Experience with front-end technologies such as BackboneJS, EmberJS, KnockoutJS
• Experience with modern tooling (Gradle, SVN, Git)
• Experience with database tools (JPA, Hibernate,JDBC, Spring Data)
• Experience with modern IDEs such as Eclipse

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
• Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry trends
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
• Displays understanding of the project's value proposition for the customer. Shows commitment to deliver the best value proposition for the targeted customer.

Leadership:

• Ability to take ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members
• Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results
• Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy. Makes suggestions to course correct
• Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against scheduled commitments. Effectively balances different, competing objectives

Personal Attributes:

• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Effective team building and problem solving abilities
• Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks. Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit

Additional Information

• Relocation Assistance Provided: No