Bring more to life.
Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?
At Cytiva, 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. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.
Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.
At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career.
Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.
The Danaher Business System Leader (Continuous Improvement Leader) is responsible for promoting and facilitating the successful implementation of the Danaher Business System (DBS) at Danaher companies, allowing those sites to meet their Policy Deployment (PD) and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets. The Integrated Solutions DBSL is specifically responsible for the deployment of the appropriate DBS tools within the Automation, Digital and Learning, Enterprise and Integrated Solutions teams.
This position reports to the VP, DBS - Hardware Solutions and is part of the Hardware Solutions DBS team within Cytiva located in Amersham Place, UK and will be an on-site role.
What you will do:
- Partner with the Business Unit VP&GM to drive targeted improvement across the assigned teams aligned with the team’s objectives by promoting the diagnosis of process obstacles and providing expert counsel on appropriate DBS tools to address gaps in performance
- Ensure impactful, successful kaizen events within the team by installing and ensuring compliance to the kaizen process, including planning of kaizen events with a dynamic funnel process tied to daily management, kaizen event execution and sustainment of kaizens
- Partner with the team to identify gaps in DBS capability and manage the Certified Practitioner funnel for the team
- Directly provide formal and informal DBS training and coaching across the team
- Drive DBS Fundamentals and culture into the team
Who you are:
- Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Business or equivalent
- 10+ years of work experience as a practitioner in Science, Engineering, Marketing or Strategy
- Demonstrated ability to accurately assess key business metrics and situations, and ability to design, develop, and implement a DBS roadmap for a business
- Demonstrated strong leadership experience and influencing skills, with success in driving results with DBS
- Demonstrated success in cross-functional teams with ability to work and execute across boundaries and matrices
Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:
- Ability to travel internationally >25%
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
- Demonstrated commitment to DBS Fundamentals, holding a CP (Certified Practitioner) or ACP (Advanced Certified Practitioner) in VSM (Value Stream Map), TPI (Transactional Process Improvement), PSP (Problem Solving Process) or Daily Management (DM) and/or relevant Innovation/Commercial tools
- Product Management (Value Proposition) and/or Commercial (Value Selling) and/or execution of complex customer projects
Cytiva, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll 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.
For more information, visit www.danaher.com.
