Director, Danaher Business System - Global Commercial

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Leica Microsystems, 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.

Shape the Future with Us!

At Leica Microsystems, we have been shaping the future for over 175 years with groundbreaking optical and digital solutions. With a culture rooted in customer focus, innovation, and teamwork, we lead the market in microscopy, imaging, and analysis, unveiling the invisible and empowering our customers to build a better, healthier world.

Joining Leica Microsystems means contributing to scientific discoveries and supporting surgeons in making critical decisions. Our advanced microscopes and AI-based image analysis solutions enable users to gain profound insights into development and engineering challenges. Here, you will work on meaningful projects alongside passionate colleagues, driving progress and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

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The Danaher Business System Director, Global Commercial is responsible for the development and implementation of the Danaher Business System (DBS) within the global commercial organization, focusing on Sales, Marketing, and Service. This role drives continuous improvement, commercial excellence, AI-enabled transformation, and capability building to achieve strategic and financial objectives.

The successful candidate will be a high-quality, capable leader with strong commercial and continuous improvement experience. They will be process-oriented and highly inclined to apply continuous improvement and their commercial experience to help the organization drive above market growth.

This position reports to the Vice President, Danaher Business System and is part of the Danaher Business System Office globally at Leica Microsystems. While our preferred work arrangement is onsite in Boston, Massachusetts given the collaboration with the local team and global commercial business, we are open to considering remote work arrangements from time zones that align with team collaboration needs.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

Provide strategic leadership for the deployment of the DBS Commercial Playbook , embedding a strong continuous improvement mindset and ensuring consistent, enterprise‑level adoption across global commercial teams.

Set and steer the annual DBS strategic agenda in partnership with senior commercial leaders, translating business