Total Rewards Leader - Life Sciences

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 Total Rewards Leader, Life Sciences will coordinate compensation and benefits activities and delivery across the Life Sciences Platform and will lead the harmonization of compensation and benefits programs and processes across the Life Sciences Platform, as appropriate. In addition, the candidate will lead communication, messaging, and training related to compensation and benefits programs across the Life Sciences Platform. The candidate will work closely with the Vice President of Human Resources for the Life Sciences Platform as well as Compensation and Human Resources leaders across the platform. The candidate will also frequently interact with the Danaher Vice President, Total Rewards and HR M&A, other members of the Danaher Corporate Total Rewards team, and total rewards leaders representing other Danaher platforms.

In this role you will have an opportunity to:

• Serve as total rewards thought leader and Center of Expertise for the Life Sciences Platform, establishing platform total rewards strategy and providing guidance to Operating Company rewards, HR, and business leadership on compensation and benefits policy, programs and actions.

• Lead annual compensation planning, incentive compensation design and administration, job evaluation, market benchmarking, and sales compensation design. Further provide analysis and guidance to Platform and Operating Company HR and business leadership related to candidate offers and associate promotion, recognition, and retention actions.

• Manage the oversight of health and welfare and retirement benefits, especially outside the US where corporate enterprise-wide focus is limited. Where appropriate, work to encourage and coordinate the harmonization of benefit programs across Operating Companies.

• Serve as a coach and mentor to the Life Sciences Platform Rewards teams, providing guidance on technical compensation and benefits matters as well as project planning, leadership approvals, and change management. Additionally, partner closely with the Platform talent organization to ensure compensation and performance management and talent processes are optimally linked.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the Life Sciences Platform to the Danaher Corporate Total Rewards team, representing the collective interests of the Life Sciences Platform operating companies. Support Platform and OpCo international assignments, coordinating with the Danaher Global Mobility Director.

• Lead and coordinate Platform-wide nomination, planning, and approval processes related to Danaher Corporate incentive (ICP), equity compensation programs, and other centrally coordinated compensation initiatives; further partner with the Corporate Total Rewards team to develop and implement effective communication strategies, ensuring that compensation and benefit programs are fully understood and appropriately valued by Platform HR leaders and associates.

• Serve as a key resource for the Life Sciences Platform on HR Mergers & Acquisitions initiatives in coordination with or as the Business HR lead named for deals, including early stage and pre-close diligence and post-signing integration planning and execution post-close. Coordinates with the Danaher Corporate HR M&A team and provides direction, counsel, and support to Platform Operating Companies and Business HR deal leads in compensation and benefits matters relating to M&A activities. May directly lead Platform and OpCo HR M&A activities, as required.

• Lead the establishment of compensation and benefits metrics and scorecards for the Life Sciences Platform. Develops and analyzes reports and analytics that will provide actionable insights into compensation current state and trends across the platform. Develop process excellence via Danaher Business System tools/processes and guides OpCo Rewards leaders on the application of DBS tools/processes.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• BA/BS in related field; an MBA or other advanced degree is preferred and 15+ years of experience in global compensation and benefits with an emphasis on creating, developing and managing global rewards programs that facilitate business results.

• Experience leading a compensation/rewards function in a corporate environment; experience in professional services/consulting a plus.

• Deep working knowledge of salary structure design, base pay administration, job evaluation, variable pay, and equity/long-term incentive compensation.

• Advanced knowledge of job evaluation methodologies, salary structure design, and merit planning design and implementation.

• First-hand knowledge and experience in designing and administering sales compensation programs.

• Experience with M&A due diligence and integration preferred.

• Working knowledge of health and welfare and retirement benefits, including both in the US and internationally along with knowledge depth of global mobility practices and operations to support the ability to deploy talent around the world.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Must be willing to travel per business needs

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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 for this role is $220,000 - $260,000. 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. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. 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.

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