A BO U T DA N A H E R

At first glance, you’ll see Danaher’s scale. Our 65,000+ associates work across the globe at more than 15 unique operating companies within three platforms—life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology.

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.

This position will report to and work closely with the VP & Chief Counsel - Global Labor & Employment and will also collaborate with leaders in the Legal and HR functions generally at all levels, providing labor and employment legal counsel on international or cross-border matters . This is an opportunity to be in a collegial environment where you can work as a trusted legal advisor, serve as a member of a high-performance L&E Legal team, act as a driver of first-class L&E legal processes and practices within a dynamic organization, and serve as a key member of various cross functional project teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES/ Requirements/Accountabilities

• Support and drive Danaher’s L&E Legal strategy, including its annual and long-term objectives

• Advise and counsel internal clients regarding compliance with existing labor and employment laws and new legislation with a focus on jurisdictions outside the U.S.

• Support and advise the Global HR Labor & Employee Relations Center of Excellence

• Advise and counsel on labor and employment related aspects of mergers and acquisitions / corporate transactions / restructurings

• Supervise/partner with outside counsel to manage select adversarial proceedings on matters in jurisdictions outside the U.S. with legal acumen and cost-effectiveness

• Provide L&E legal support with respect to ad hoc enterprise initiatives and serve as L&E legal team member of cross-functional projects

• Oversee and/or conduct complex and/or sensitive employment-related investigations

• Provide efficient and practical L&E Legal advice and support to HR and other functional partners

• Manage vendor program for immigration legal service delivery and provide L&E legal support for cross-border employment arrangements, including “hosting” arrangements

• Drive process and program improvements through creation of best practices, toolkits and other methods that can be scaled to achieve broad impact and sustainability

• Analyze, draft, negotiate, review and revise agreements, policies, and programs relating to employment relationships

• Monitor and stay current on critical legal developments in key countries and regions to ensure the business timely adjusts policies, practices, and procedures

• Develop and conduct training and workshops to support implementation of L&E Legal solutions, SW, and toolkits to maximize sustainability

SKILLS

• Highly agile with solid business acumen, sound and confident judgment, professional courage, and unquestionable integrity with discretion in dealing with highly-sensitive information

• Superior analytical skills and independent judgment to problem solve and provide creative solutions

• Able to simplify legal technicalities into pragmatic recommendations and is fluent translating legal advice into appropriately risk adjusted, business-oriented advice

• Tenacious, initiative-taking, and resilient with ability to perform with a good blend of operational experience and flexibility and has a track record of successfully “operationalizing” and scaling legal solutions to achieve broad impact and sustainability

• Ability to engage and communicate comfortably and effectively with individuals across a wide range of functions and levels

• Experienced and deft with presentation of written materials in power point and other visually captivating medium

• Excellent project management and change management skills including as to complex projects

• Ability to set and meet multiple priorities, initiative to take on new challenges and high energy to work with diverse teams in a fast-paced work environment

• Highly capable of collaboration and sharing ideas articulately and openly to influence others without direct authority, marshal buy-in, and drive change among people with different cultural and educational backgrounds

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's and JD degrees

• 15+ years of labor & employment law practice (mixture of law firm and in-house practice a plus), with at least 3-5 years experience on global/cross-border labor & employment matters

• Licensed to Practice Law in at least one state in the United States and must be a member in good standing with that State bar.

• Proficiency or fluency in other languages a plus

• Tech savvy and excellent Powerpoint and Excel skills

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed up to 25%

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.

The salary range for this role is $200,000-$280,000. 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. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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#REMOTE

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.

Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. 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.

The EEO posters are available here (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters) .

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at applyassistance@danaher.com to request accommodation.