Senior Director, Executive Talent Acquisition

At first glance, you’ll see Danaher’s scale. Our 65,000+ associates work across the globe at more than 15 unique operating companies within three platforms—life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology.

Look again and you’ll see the opportunity to build a meaningful career, be creative, and take risks with the support you need to be successful. You’ll find associates who are as certain about their impact as they are about where they’re headed next.

You’ll find the Danaher Business System, which makes everything possible. You’ll also see a company that investors trust—our culture of continuous improvement has helped us outperform the S&P 500 by more than 5,000% over the past 25 years.

The Senior Director, Executive Talent Acquisition partners with executives across the global  organization and leads the function as a strategist, consultant, and manager of a high-impact team of recruiters.  They will work with internal customers to provide a strategic framework for talent discussions making this role a mission-critical contributor to realizing the business strategy for the organization.

This position reports to the Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition and may be based in our Washington, DC office or remotely – preferably on the east coast of the United States.   

In this role, you will have the opportunity to: 

• Strengthen, expand, and manage the executive search function and lead the team to a highest purpose capability. 
• Solicit feedback from core internal customers and build an operating rhythm that enables the executive search team to anticipate Danaher’s executive talent needs as well as current and future leadership gaps.
• Develop and manage innovative approaches to untapped networks and tools, especially for attracting and engaging diverse talent globally.
• Research and communicate talent market trends, such as market attrition, talent availability, and skill prevalence to senior executives. Bring forward recommendations for how to adjust executive talent strategies and give the company a competitive advantage in light of market dynamics.
• Serve as expert advisor, partner, leader, and trusted colleague to help operating company leaders envision what the right talent will be for the company, beyond the immediate need.

The essential requirements of the job include:  

• Depth of experience in talent acquisition, talent management, and/or executive search experience, with deep understanding of talent as a competitive advantage for organizations of the future. 
• Quickly learns markets and applies the knowledge as a consultant to senior business and HR leadership.
• Ability to collaborate in a complex organization known for market impact, a strong culture and business operating system, commitment to values and proven believer in continuous improvement as a way of life.
• Experience and exposure to international markets and working across a variety of different cultures and geographies.
• Proven experience in diagnosing organization capability requirements and translating these into practical executive talent strategies.
• Knowledge and experience with change management methodologies and leading and facilitating transformational change initiatives with team and others where necessary.
• Experience influencing senior executives by readily building trust, confidence, and authentic rapport.  Must be willing to challenge points-of-view when necessary and offer alternative constructive suggestions.
• Is an excellent and creative collaborator with the ability to grasp issues quickly and work on the right things at the right time. Timely and consistently delivers on agreed goals and commitments. Able to manage conflict.

At Danaher we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Danaher can provide.

The salary range . 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. 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. 

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

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