Vice President, Talent, Life Science at Danaher Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts

Job Description:

The Vice President, Talent, Life Sciences will make a significant contribution to drive effective leadership, talent development and talent attraction programs across the Life Sciences platform. In this position you will provide strategic partnership to design and implement effective talent development, attraction programs and solutions. The incumbent will ensure programs are designed to address unique platform needs, elevate skills, drive growth, and reinforce employee engagement and performance. They will enhance the overall associate experience by driving the evolution and adoption of modern development opportunities and drive best practices leveraging DBS tools and systems. In partnership with the VP, HR, Life Sciences and other Executive Leaders they will help to evolve the strategic development and attraction agenda.

The Opportunity

The VP, Talent, Life Sciences will operate across the Life Sciences Platform and be accountable for driving the identification of current and future talent needs and trends and in the design of platform solutions. In addition, the VP, Talent will lead communication, messaging, and training related to talent programs across the Life Sciences businesses in close partnership with the VP, HR, Life Sciences and Talent Management and Human Resources leaders across the platform.

Key Responsibilities

Know the Business, State of Talent, and the External Environment:

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Lead the talent strategy of the platform driving culture, high performance, engagement, advancement in diversity, equity and inclusion, talent management and talent acquisition in partnership with corporate functional leadership and team.

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Partner with SMEs to support the design and change management process needed for significant org changes in platform and large Opco structures that is scalable for future growth.

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Support the Danaher Talent Acquisition team to develop a robust and proactive recruitment strategy that will ensure a pipeline of diverse and qualified candidates for positions across the platform.

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Drive Danaher and Platform purpose with strong business acumen and next gen talent management thought leadership.

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As a senior member of the Talent Management team, support Danaher-wide project teams on initiatives that meet both Platform and enterprise-wide talent needs to leverage resources and address common challenges. This role provides a unique opportunity to reimagine Talent processes along with the broader corporate team using the Danaher Business System (DBS).

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Establish strong eminence and understanding of external environment to identify evolving trends and research related to evolving work, workforce, and workplace shifts.

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Proactively use One Model to gain insights around the biggest talent problems to solve in the platform and OpCo. Leverage data to understand movement/progress/trends of talent in critical funnels.

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Deep talent expertise in critical markets that are important to Life Sciences.

Design and Execute Relevant and Business-Focused Solutions:

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Design & develop talent strategic solutions / mechanisms that support the platform business priorities, particularly needs that arise from the strategy planning process and organization design, strategy, and talent discussions. Platform solutions should be created and designed in alignment to the Talent Management philosophy, programs, and processes.

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Collaborate across OpCo, Regional, Platform, and Corporate teams to define common, unique needs and bring in leading best practices to address the needs.

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Deploy key learning solutions at the Corporate, Platform, Regional,
OpCo
and Functional: design, facilitate, coach.

Manage and Execute Platform and Danaher Talent Processes:

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Lead and manage roll-up of talent data and analysis for Platform and Corporate leader review.

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Use DBS to measure impact, problem-solve, and design, launch and sustain local solutions, where appropriate, that meet unique Platform business needs.

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Drive rigorous daily management on Talent Management processes.

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Champion diversity and inclusion through all talent discussions, standard work, programs, and solutions.

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Work with platform/OpCo teams to establish Platform and OpCo Pipeline Growth rooms (visual and daily management) to track succession yield, key talent readiness and progression.

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Manage the internal recruiting, Danaher Go, and chessboarding processes at platform, with a critical eye on candidate care.

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Work alongside and coach members of the OpCo HR community, including OpCo Talent Leaders to understand and embed platform and Danaher talent philosophy, processes, and tools.

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Manage the platform Supply & Demand Discussions and track outcomes.

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Represent the Platform and its needs and perspective in the Danaher Talent Council. Manage Platform Talent Council to ensure communication, best practice sharing, productive challenge and data/input gathering to share with Corporate Talent Management.

Key Skills and Competencies Required

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Needs Analysis and Consulting:
Ability to work with various stakeholders and identify needs and concerns; ability to identify root causes and pathways to addressing opportunities; ability to understand, envision and articulate potential end goal(s).

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Analytical Skills:
Ability to demonstrate an analytical mindset and skills that include the understanding of how to ask questions, collect critical data, analyze data (in a statistical manner as necessary), identify key themes and trends and translate them into plausible recommendations; ability to structure and translate significant and seemingly unrelated data/information into coherent themes.

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Verbal and Visual Communication Skills:
Ability to represent information, verbally and visually, in an engaging, persuasive, succinct and appealing manner that enables the audience to consider the potential solutions and their fit; ability to enable the audience to think beyond the short-term and envision mid- to long-term scenarios.

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Strategic Thought Partner:
A solutions-oriented HR business leader with high learning agility and rigor who will get to know the talent across our diagnostic operating companies, assess a situation and pivot quickly when needed, and align priorities in accordance with those of the greater Danaher Organization.

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Collaboration
: Co-creation and Influence: Ability to work alongside with and influence a variety of stakeholder groups who may have different viewpoints; ability to work with stakeholders to jointly create solutions enabling stakeholders to feel part of the solution; demonstrated perseverance and patience in overcoming resistance, challenges and obstacles; leading project teams without direct authority. Collaboration and community spirit to support and advance the talent agenda.

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Execution Orientation
: Leading the execution of significant projects and/or processes; ability to take idea to action by creating an action plan, identifying necessary resources, working through obstacles, and monitoring and executing the plan.

Qualifications and Experience

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BA/BS in related field; an MBA or Master's degree in Organizational Psychology or Organizational Behavior (preferred)

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20+ years in Human Resources with 10+ years in Talent Management (can include L&D, DE&I)

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5+ years in a leadership position

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Advanced knowledge of workforce planning, organization design and structures, change management, succession planning, leadership development, and project management.

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First-hand knowledge and experience with data-driven decision-making to facilitate impactful advancements.

Personal Characteristics

The incumbent of this position must possess the following traits:

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Leadership abilities

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Ability to work in a team and facilitate teamwork

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Possess high energy and a dynamic personality

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Possess a high level of integrity and ethics

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Strong communication skills (one-on-one, writing skills, presentation skills)

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Must be organized and possess strong time and project management skills

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Fast thinker with good judgment and decisiveness

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Have a high sense of urgency & comfortable in a fast-paced environment

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Results oriented

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High detail orientation

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Negotiation skills

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Balance strategy with the ability to get things done

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Pursuit of excellence vs. perfection

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Continuous improvement orientation

Danaher Cultural Alignment

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Our culture is values-based, customer-centric, process-oriented, and results-driven. At Danaher, all associates must act with integrity and conduct business honestly and fairly. On this point, there is no negotiation. We have five core values that continuously guide our work:

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The Best Team Wins: Exceptional people thrive in Danaher's fast-paced, results-oriented work environment.

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Innovation Defines Our Future: We are empowered and encouraged to challenge ourselves and each other, and to take balanced risks to advance innovation.

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Customers Talk, We Listen: Our customer-centric focus drives us to create innovative solutions that directly address customer needs.

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Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) is Our Way of Life: We constantly strive to do better, setting the bar high for ourselves and each other.

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We Compete for Shareholders: Our track record of financial success enables us to continually invest back into our businesses and our team.

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Danaher does not discriminate based on age, race/ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender or gender identity, or sexual orientation, disability or veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We expect that our partnership together will ultimately enable an outstanding, high performing, and diverse organization capable of driving our continued success.

The salary range for this role is $270,000 to $300,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay
is considered to be
wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together, we'll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow's science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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