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Job Number: 2626681
Business: GE Healthcare
Business Segment: Healthcare Sustainable Solutions

Role Summary/Purpose

• Africa X-Ray Imaging Product Marketing develops a regional product/portfolio strategy including positioning, market segmentation and targeting and installed base retention.
• This position is responsible for generating growth in X-Ray Imaging portfolio in Africa through demand creation, installed base retention and funnel acceleration in partnership with Field Marketing; and supporting future product planning by identifying market trends, relevant buying centers and personas, and customer needs.

Essential Responsibilities

• Collecting win/loss & competitive insight on product portfolios at regional level; feedback to global product; recommend and develop marketing programs to adjust product positioning and improve win rate and share positon.
• Collaborating with commercial leadership and global marketing to develop the region market and orders forecast.
• Ensuring regional marketing plans & execution are aligned with global marketing plan (value proposition, positioning, marketing mix, etc.) to grow orders and share.
• Providing region input to business cases for products/upgrades that are at concept stage, work with Global Product Marketing to develop, test and prototype new product ideas
• Employing clinical and industry trend analysis, and market share and competitive analysis relevant to a product / portfolio.
• Conducting in-depth research to define customer problem statement, success metrics, clinical and economic needs, buying cycles, and personas (to support development of global MRD) .
• Validating global value proposition and messaging and adapt for regional use.
• Prioritizing and mapping global customer segments and work with Field Marketing on demand creation activities to achieve NPI and business objectives.
• Working with Field Marketing organization on interlocks, understanding and reacting to win-loss, leveraging demand generation opportunities, providing relevant support for regional campaigns, etc.
• Developing and supporting product-specific KOL’s and advisory boards.
• Developing regional thought leadership and advertising and promotion strategy in support of demand creation and funnel acceleration activities.
• Adapting global marketing assets (including sales tools) to ensure that the region commercial organization has the right tools to position and sell product configurations / portfolio effectively.
• Training direct / indirect sales channels.
• Identifying and establishing reference and show sites.
• Developing programs to gather regional evidence of customer success, early adopters, show sites, and clinical evidence where appropriate
• Coordinating product training for commercial teams by leveraging Global Product Marketing and Global Product Management support
• Providing commercial teams product knowledge in product use, differentiation, positioning and pricing

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business Administration or related field.
• Minimum 5+ years' experience in marketing, product marketing or related field.
• Leadership skills to lead teams and shape/lead growth vision and marketing strategy.
• Prior experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
• Team oriented - ability to motivate and work well with diverse, cross-functional teams.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to motivate and lead a team of direct reports.
• Strong analytical and process skills.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications
Desired Characteristics:    

• MBA or Master's Degree in Marketing, Business Administration or related field.
• 7+ years’ experience in marketing, product marketing or related field.
• Deep marketing expertise in market & customer insights, product commercialization and branding.
• Healthcare product/industry acumen.
• Segment experience (where applicable).
• Innovation - develop new ideas through collaboration and execute on creative ideas.
• Influencing skills - ability to motivate individuals and demonstrate organizational influence.
• French and English speaking is beneficial but not mandatory.

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Job Number: 2739653
Business: GE Global Operations
Business Segment: Global Operations Middle East & Africa

Role Summary/Purpose

• GE Africa’s Controllership Team has oversight of Operational Controllership in the region, across 40+ diverse countries.
• The team is responsible for supporting GE businesses in the region in regional risk assessment and risk mitigation, simplification, talent & people development and above all for regional compliance.
• The GE Africa Controllership Team also owns the regional external audit relationship and the roll-out of Global Controllership initiatives.

Essential Responsibilities
The ideal candidate's specific roles & responsibilities include:

• Support the Global Operations Finance Site Leaders in Sub Sahara Africa & GE Africa Controllership Team by performing Country specific Controllership & Compliance risk assessment.
• Provide Country specific inputs to global and regional risk management programs including scope & timing of Internal Control team reviews and Corporate Audit Staff audits
• Plan and ensure execution of Internal Control team’s monitoring processes to ensure the effectiveness of the Finance & Compliance related controls across GE’s Enterprise Standards and Policies
• Coordinate with process owners to close out remediation actions to close control gaps; this will include discussing and agreeing the remediation actions with the owners and following up to ensure timely closure of the issues.
• Prepare reports and other deliverables from the monitoring processes for the GE Africa, Country and Regional Leadership.
• Support Enterprise Standards Leaders and other process owners to implement and monitor remediation actions.
• Identify and implement Simplification opportunities in Finance processes & controls.
• Execute and report on compliance investigations, where required
• Participate in projects and/or regular tollgate reviews with the various SSA project teams where key Controllership projects are in place.
• Participate in transition process of the “outlier” legal or management entities into having rigorous processes and controls (especially important for recently acquired entities)
• Report progress on projects and provide inputs into key Controllership dashboards for presentation to GE Africa Leadership
• Coach and monitor deliverables of team members to ensure output is of the right quality and knowledge is transferred.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business or Finance
• Qualified/Chartered Accountant or equivalent preferably with strong controls, audit & accounting technical knowledge from a Professional audit firm or Internal Audit Function
• 6 - 8 years’ experience in Audit, Controllership, or Internal audit function
• Experience with identifying sub-optimized controls & process and identifying & implementing process improvements
• Experience with working in multicultural teams and executing projects (planning, coordination, communication with senior leaders, etc.)
• Working knowledge of US GAAP and/or IFRS
• Knowledge of Country’s key regulatory requirements
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Influencing Skills - Ability to influence across businesses, functions, cadres and cultures
• Experience leading teams.
• Motivated self-starter who can operate with minimal supervision
• Exhibit agility and resilience
• Excellent MS Excel skills
• A valid NYSC discharge or exemption certificate will be required (please indicate clearly on your resume)
• Must have valid authorization to work full-time without any restriction in Nigeria

Desired Characteristics:

• Demonstrate clear and critical thinking
• Individual who could thrive within a matrix organization and manage ambiguities to define & deliver clear objectives.
• Fluency in French and/or Portuguese will be an added advantage
• Must be willing to travel up to 30% of the time