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The Danaher Business System (DBS) is our proven system for achieving success. DBS is a philosophy, set of values, and series of management processes that collectively define who we are and how we do what we do at Danaher.
Position Summary and Overview
The Global Service DBS Leader is responsible for leveraging the Danaher Business System (DBS) to improve the most critical programs across our global Service organization. They will be a key business partner who is results-driven with a strong and proven ability to drive effective use of continuous improvement tools, collaborate with diverse teams, and implement and sustain change.
The successful candidate for this role will be a highly experienced practitioner of continuous improvement and have a deep understanding of the DBS fundamentals with an ability to apply them to the Service function. In addition, the successful candidate should have cross-functional experience working within the commercial organization.
Major Responsibilities
- Partner with Vice President of Service and regional Service leaders to build a funnel of cross-functional continuous improvement initiatives targeted to drive growth, reduce waste, increase profitability, and improve customer experience.
- Manage Service Kaizen Funnel, driving from ideation to execution the most critical events impacting the business.
- Map end-to-end business processes to identify and resolve cross-functional business opportunities.
- Support the creation and execution of LBS Policy Deployment.
- Harmonize global processes across LBS functions and business units, driving consistency in application and impact.
- Drive alignment between functional engines and identify how to improve to drive efficiencies and/or increase impact.
- Serve as a key member of the L2 DBS leadership team.
- Train and install foundational capabilities in PD, Action Planning, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) management.
- Directly provide formal and informal DBS training and coaching, augmenting with other sources of training and coaching.
Qualifications
- BS or BA Degree in business, engineering, operations, or equivalent experience required.
- 7+ years of experience in service and commercial organizations with demonstrated success in a global environment.
- Ability to analyze cross-functional processes, assess performance, lead continuous improvement, and sustain change.
- Sought out as an authority in the DBS Fundamentals (i.e., Visual and Daily Management, 5S, Standard Work, Transactional Process Improvement, Kaizen, Problem Solving).
- Ability to work with functions in the implementation of the DBS roadmap and implement key growth initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated successful experience as DBS Leader with extensive DBS experience.
- Experience leading initiatives in global organizations.
- Experience managing people directly or indirectly.
- Understanding of operating in regulated environments (e.g., FDA).
Travel
- Willingness to travel (often internationally) 50% of time.
Salary
The salary range for this role is $140,000-$160,000. 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.
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