WONDERING WHAT’S WITHIN DANAHER? TAKE A CLOSER LOOK.

At first glance, you’ll see Danaher’s scale. With $31.5B revenue, our 80,000 associates work across the globe at more than 25 unique operating companies within four platforms — life sciences, diagnostics, water quality, and product identification.

Career development is important to us - 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.

We hope you’ll see yourself here, too. What you find at Danaher — and within yourself — might just change the world.

WHO WE ARE:

As an Associate of Product Identification at Danaher, you’ll get to work with a global collective of companies that are future focused and digitally driven. We’re working together to optimize the packaging value chain, so we can help enable customer confidence and inspire consumer trust in the brands we use every day.

When you join Product Identification at Danaher, you’ll be part of a culture that welcomes diverse perspectives, celebrates your differences, and is committed to helping you advance your career. We believe our collective strengths empower us to transform together and redefine what’s possible — for ourselves, our industry, and our world, every day.

Location: This role is Hybrid (onsite 2-3x per week) and can be based in Wood Dale, IL or Grand Rapids, MI.

THIS JOB IS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO:

The Sr. Talent Program Manager, DEI will bring thought leadership, people-first philosophy, and process discipline to advance the diversity and inclusion efforts for the group of businesses under the Product Identification platform. This position will be responsible for aligning and executing a cohesive approach that integrates new and existing corporate initiatives, policies, programs, systems, and procedures that cultivate an environment where all can thrive.

A significant part of this role will be in assisting and promoting the development of training programs that improve associate understanding of inclusion issues. The DEI Sr. Talent Manager will have significant accomplishments in talent program management to further advance DEI engagement across the organization, which include establishing methods for tracking progress, monitoring the success of programs, and other actions that promote diversity throughout the company.

WITHIN YOUR ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Partner with senior leadership, group executive team, and corporate DEI team to develop and drive DEI strategy and initiatives that align with business goals. This will include an assessment of the current state, analysis, and reporting, recommendations for future programs and practices, and strategies to plan for the future.
• Develop and maintain organizational metrics, provide appropriate updates on progress, recommend actions to support the achievement of goals, and assess the overall effectiveness of DEI initiatives.
• Initiates and manages DEI projects and initiatives, tracks progress against goals, and manages resource requests related to DEI needs. Gathers lessons learned and obtains final project approval from sponsor and stakeholders.
• Assess organizational efforts in support of the DEI program, establish best practices, and identify initiatives and programs to remove barriers that affect staff retention and advancement.
• Collaborate with the communication team to support and drive the DEI strategy through various internal and external campaigns.
• Collaborate with members of the HR team in the development of DEI initiatives that overlap with talent acquisition, learning & development, and performance management.
• Keeps current with, identifies, and shares global diversity, equity, and inclusion-related trends and benchmarking.
• build partnerships with external stakeholders.
• Ability to balance organizational change needs with organization readiness to ensure DEI strategy is both achievable and successful while stretching the organization to advance our DEI journey.
• Ensure alignment with business policies, practices, and external regulatory expectations.
• Collaborate to ensure strong DEI focus within Corporate Social Responsibility, Supplier Diversity, and other marketplace-specific areas of opportunity.
• External Community: Establish robust external partnerships through participation in councils, conferences, task forces, and professional affiliations as required to strengthen DEI solutions, perceptions, and impact with Videojet and external audiences.

YOUR EDUCATION AND BACKGROUND EXPERIENCE WILL INCLUDE:

• 5+ years operating effectively as a talent program manager/leader in a global, multi-site, high-performance organization.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills to work and influence senior business leaders and understand the implications their actions will have on the organizational demands of an evolving organization.
• Experience facilitating organizational change activities and driving the adoption of processes and behaviors.
• Possess a strong mix of analytical sharpness and intuitive, creative pattern formation in problem-solving.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally 25% of the time.

Compensation

Our organization is committed to competitive compensation that typically has key components including base salary and variable annual incentive compensation based on personal and company performance.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Danaher, we are dedicated to building and sustaining a truly diverse and inclusive culture. These are not just words on a page—Diversity and Inclusion are a top priority for the company, and it ties deeply to each of our core values.

OUR BENEFITS:

• Comprehensive benefits package (medical, dental, vision & more) eligible on day 1 of employment
• Incentive compensation plan bonus as well as annual salary review
• Training and development opportunities
• Permissive PTO policy emphasizing flexibility and trust
• Training and development opportunities
• 401(k) savings plan + company match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Attractive employee referral program
• Paid Parental Leave
• Danaher Wellbeing Program, with rewards
• Employee Assistance Program (legal, financial, and counselling resources)

You can find detailed information at https://mydanaherbenefits.com/. *US ONLY

When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 80,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful Danaher Business System tools and the stability of a tested organization.