Danaher Business System Director, Global Commercial

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At Leica Microsystems, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

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At Leica Microsystems, we have been shaping the future for over 175 years with groundbreaking optical and digital solutions. With a culture rooted in customer focus, innovation, and teamwork, we lead the market in microscopy, imaging, and analysis, unveiling the invisible and empowering our customers to build a better, healthier world.

Joining Leica Microsystems means contributing to scientific discoveries and supporting surgeons in making critical decisions. Our advanced microscopes and AI-based image analysis solutions enable users to gain profound insights into development and engineering challenges. Here, you will work on meaningful projects alongside passionate colleagues, driving progress and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

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The Danaher Business System Director, Global Commercial is responsible for the development and implementation of the Danaher Business System (DBS) within the global commercial organization, focusing on Sales, Marketing, and Service. This role drives continuous improvement, commercial excellence, AI-enabled transformation, and capability building to achieve strategic and financial objectives.

The successful candidate will be a high-quality, capable leader with strong commercial and continuous improvement experience. They will be process-oriented and highly inclined to apply continuous improvement and their commercial experience to help the organization drive above market growth.

This position reports to the Vice President, Danaher Business System and is part of the Danaher Business System Office globally at Leica Microsystems. While our preferred work arrangement is onsite in Boston, Massachusetts given the collaboration with the local team and global commercial business, we are open to considering remote work arrangements from time zones that align with team collaboration needs.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Provide strategic leadership for the deployment of the DBS Commercial Playbook, embedding a strong continuous improvement mindset and ensuring consistent, enterprise‑level adoption across global commercial teams.

• Set and steer the annual DBS strategic agenda in partnership with senior commercial leaders, translating business priorities into a focused portfolio of high‑impact DBS initiatives.

• Oversee execution of critical DBS Growth tools—including Funnel Management, Pricing Excellence, Transformative Marketing, and Product Launch Excellence—to elevate commercial capabilities and accelerate sustainable revenue growth.

• Champion operational excellence by identifying systemic workflow barriers and leading enterprise‑level waste‑elimination and process‑simplification efforts that enhance speed, quality, and scalability.

• Develop DBS capability across the organization through executive‑level coaching in Policy Deployment, Daily Management, Problem Solving Process, and Kaizen, ensuring leadership teams can drive continuous improvement independently.

• Partner with regional and global commercial leadership teams to align on DBS priorities, harmonize execution approaches, and foster cross‑market collaboration and best‑practice sharing.

• Shape the future of DBS tools and methodologies by providing strategic field insights and serving as the primary interface with the Danaher Corporate DBS Office to influence tool enhancements and accelerate adoption.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• 10+ years of commercial leadership experience across sales, marketing, or service; direct quota‑carrying sales experience strongly preferred.

• Proven Continuous Improvement/Business Excellence leadership, including prior DBS experience (for internal Danaher candidates) or equivalent CI methodologies.

• Demonstrated high‑potential leadership profile, with a strong record of achievement, strategic impact, and ambition for continued growth.

• AI‑literate with the ability to integrate AI tools into commercial processes to enhance effectiveness, insights, and decision‑making.

• Experience leading within complex, matrixed, and international organizations, influencing without authority and driving alignment across diverse teams.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Economics, Marketing, or related discipline.

• Fluent in English; additional languages are an advantage.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel 50% globally per business needs

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Demonstrated successful experience as a Danaher Business System Leader with extensive DBS experience.

• Experience developing and owning strategic plan initiatives and policy deployment.

• Exposure to and participation in a wide variety of training and facilitation environments.

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Leica Microsystems, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

At Leica Microsystems 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 Leica Microsystems can provide.

The annual salary range for this role is $250,000 - $270,000. 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. 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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