Senior Director, Program Management Maturation – Delivery

🕒 July 18

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $240k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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Danaher Corporation

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Danaher Corporation is a leading global life sciences and diagnostics innovator that develops and supplies instruments, technologies, software, and services to accelerate scientific research, biotechnology development, and clinical diagnostics. The company operates through businesses focused on biotechnology tools, diagnostics platforms, and life sciences products, leveraging the Danaher Business System and an acquisition-driven strategy to scale technologies and support customers across academia, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and clinical laboratories.

📋 Description

• Serve as the senior program management partner who flanks an assigned Chief Innovation Office leader — initially the Oncology & Neurodegenerative Disease leader — connecting the dots across complex programs, anticipating needs, and bringing gravitas and an integrative, whole-system perspective to the partnership. • Lead, coach, and develop the program management team — setting standards and ways of working, prioritizing across the portfolio, and exercising the judgment to know when to lean in closely and when to enable the team to run. • Mature and modernize the program management function by embedding AI-enabled tools, automation, and modern ways of working that move beyond traditional, linear program management to match the pace of innovation. • Own end-to-end delivery against defined strategic and financial targets, aligning priorities, resources, and execution across the assigned portfolio while operating as a peer to the senior leaders accountable for those areas. • Surface inconsistencies and early indicators of shifting priorities or risk, while ensuring alignment of priorities, resources, and execution across the assigned portfolio. • Implement, sustain, and continuously improve the operating model in collaboration with Danaher Business System (DBS) and Operations Excellence partners — clarifying roles, decision rights, and ways of working across the ecosystem. • Translate scientific advances, clinical evidence, and technology roadmaps into clear business implications and execution priorities, toggling fluidly between science and business for senior stakeholders. • Lead cross-functional initiatives and change programs in ambiguous, upstream environments — building alignment and accountability across operating companies and external partners and vendors, firm where needed and bridge-building by default.

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced degree (PhD, MD, or equivalent) in a life sciences field; or a bachelor’s degree in a scientific field with commensurate additional experience. • 12+ years of progressive functional experience in program or portfolio management, operations, or delivery within diagnostics, biotechnology, or pharmaceuticals. • 5+ years of people-leadership experience, including direct management of program managers or equivalent professionals. • Demonstrated experience implementing operating models, governance structures, or process-excellence frameworks at scale. • Demonstrated experience applying AI and/or automation tools to program management, operations, or knowledge-work processes. • Demonstrated experience translating scientific or clinical concepts into business, investment, or commercialization implications. • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional programs across a matrixed organization, including operating companies and external partners. • Ability to travel up to approximately 20-30%, as needed, for key leadership, governance, and program forums.

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off • Medical/dental/vision insurance • 401(k) to eligible employees • Flexible work arrangements • Bonus/incentive pay