LER Director

🕒 September 24

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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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

• Shape and lead Labor & Employee Relations strategy for assigned Diagnostics Operating Companies across the United Kingdom and Ireland • Advise senior HR and business leaders on labor risk, workforce decisions, organizational change and business strategy implications • Lead complex and high-risk employee relations matters, including investigations, senior-level performance and conduct matters, grievances, accommodations and terminations • Ensure sound judgment, consistent governance and alignment with employment legislation, collective agreements, company policies and Danaher standard work • Own strategy and execution for information, consultation and collective negotiation processes with works councils, trade unions, employee representative bodies and other social partners • Lead workforce reductions, restructurings, TUPE transfers, reorganizations, site transformations, mergers, acquisitions, integrations, expansions and closures across multiple Operating Companies • Establish governance, policies, toolkits and standard work for scalable Labor & Employee Relations capability • Develop preventive risk approaches, coach HR and leaders, and use case trends and business insights to improve consistency, speed and outcomes • Partner with Operating Company HR teams, People Partners, senior business leaders, employee representative bodies, Danaher’s Global Labor & Employee Relations Center of Excellence, Compliance, Legal and external counsel

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in law, human resources or a related field, an L.L.M. or master’s degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience • 12+ years of progressive experience in labor relations, employee relations, employment law, HR business partnering or a related human resources discipline • Experience with complex, high-risk and multi-entity matters • Expertise in UK employment and labor law, restructuring obligations, TUPE, collective consultation and employee representation requirements • Experience translating legal requirements into practical business decisions • Experience leading complex employee relations cases, collective workforce reductions, restructuring, harmonization and major organizational change • Experience advising senior leaders and coordinating execution across a matrixed, multinational environment • Experience developing negotiation strategy and leading engagement with works councils, trade unions or other employee representative bodies • Experience building governance, standard work and organizational capability in Labor & Employee Relations • Ability to travel up to 25% • Employment law or senior Labor & Employee Relations experience in Ireland is a plus • Experience in manufacturing, diagnostics, life sciences or another highly regulated environment is a plus • Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, integrations or significant site transformation across multiple businesses or legal entities is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Commitment to hiring and developing from within • Culture of belonging where unique viewpoints matter • Opportunity to build an incredible career at a leading science and technology company • Travel support for assigned sites, Operating Companies, employee representative engagements and business transformation activities