Danaher Business System Director, Global Commercial

Bring more to life. Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? 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. By harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Leica Microsystems has shaped 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. 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.

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