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Danaher is a leading global life sciences and diagnostics innovator committed to accelerating the power of science and technology to improve human health. We are a $24 billion company with 16 operating companies and a combined total workforce of 66,000 associates worldwide.

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.

And no matter where you look at Danaher, at the heart of what we do, you’ll witness our shared purpose—helping realize life’s potential—in action. Whether we’re supporting a life-saving vaccine development or advancing a new instrument for cancer diagnosis our work helps improve millions of lives.

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

Danaher has a matrixed and decentralized organizational structure. With a significant presence in Europe, Danaher’s 16 operating companies (OpCos) present a wide breadth of employee representative forums, including 50+ works councils across Europe. Danaher is building a global Labor & Employee Relations function which includes a Center of Excellence (LER COE) service model which provides core labour and employee relations services to its operating companies.

The Labor & Employee Relations Europe - Operations Lead is responsible for supporting the operational excellence of Danaher’s labour and employee relations strategies in Europe.

This position is a member of the of the Danaher Corporate HR Labour and Employee Relations (LER) EU team and will be located in UK/IRL

If you are passionate about operational excellence and how technology contributes to the transformation of work, have a growth mindset, thrive in a global, fast-paced environment with a strong focus on continuous improvement and want to contribute to building a world-class Regional LER team, read on.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Driving operational and service delivery excellence consistent with the global LER COE model and collaborate with Operations Leads in other LER COE regions.

• Partnering with Europe LER COE staff to develop and implement daily metrics and KPIs aligned to the enterprise framework, best practice reporting tools, and a review cadence to audit and monitor the efficiency of programs and processes that enable informed decisions.

• Assessing and interpreting LER data and conducting trend analysis to identify insights, gaps, and to propose countermeasures and recommendations for continuous improvement.

• Triaging Regional Europe LER cases, assessing the level/complexity of the matter, and assigning the matters to OpCo or to COE Staff

• Supporting the implementation of innovative LER solutions that can be scaled to achieve broad impact, including serving as a Project Manager. Proactively identifying areas for improvement within current processes.

• Contributing to the thought leadership about new technology in line with the needs of the global LER function.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• University degree in Business, Human Resources, or another related field.

• 5+ years’ experience in human resources, (preferably with exposure to LER) in a European multinational context.

• Excellent analytical, organizational and data analysis skills.

• Robust project management skills with the ability to manage multiple, high-priority assignments simultaneously while meeting deadlines and maintaining quality standards

• Excellent written and oral and presentation skills (English required and another European language would be a plus); able to communicate progress, results, and guidance clearly and concisely to critical stakeholders in a timely manner, including through various visual means such as powerpoint, Excel, etc.

• Embraces and stays current with technological developments and actively seeks ways to leverage technology and data to drive improvement.

• Advanced skills with MS Office Suite including Powerpoint and Excel and ideally use of a Case Management technology platform.

• Limited travel

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.

At Danaher we bring together science, technology and operational capabilities to 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. Our global teams are pioneering what’s next across Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Biotechnology and beyond. For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.