Global Director Of Legal Operations & Dbsl

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At first glance, you’ll see Danaher’s scale. Our 80,000 associates work across the globe at more than 20 unique operating companies within four platforms—life sciences, diagnostics, water quality, and product identification. 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 (DBS), 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 enabling our customers to provide clean water, supporting a life-saving vaccine development, advancing a new instrument for cancer diagnosis, or ensuring product safety, 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.

The Global Director of Legal Operations and Danaher Business System Leader (DBSL) will support all Legal and Compliance Operations around the world and will be charged by developing and implementing a global operations strategy in partnership with global Legal and Compliance senior legal leadership at Corporate, Platform and Opco level. Global Legal and Compliance operations will include, specifically support design and improvement of operational processes, their automation using the best technology, drive adoption and implementation of both processes and IT systems and create a data analytics infrastructure of any required information for legal and compliance teams to perform their functions. This role will also support strategic planning and implementation for Corporate Legal, including current Legal and Compliance Organizational Design Project.

The Danaher Business System (DBS) is our proven system for achieving success. DBS is a philosophy, set of values, and series of management processes that collectively define who we are and how we do what we do at Danaher. Our DBS tools are designed to help us excel in the areas of Growth Leadership, and Lean, building on a strong foundation of DBS fundamentals (Voice of Customer, Value Stream Mapping, Standard Work, Transactional Process Improvement, Kaizen, 5S, Problem Solving, and Visual & Daily Management).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive ever‐improving results by leveraging DBS tools, consulting skills, and change management process.
• Drive legal technology Roadmap, including technology lifecycle management.
• Point of contact with GC for all Executive level communications related to Legal Operations.
• Coordinates Project Management activities and Project Management Office.
• Assist in achieving business unit Strategic Plan objectives.
• Promote and facilitate diagnosis of workflow impediments and other wastes throughout the function, and provide expert counsel on appropriate tools to eliminate them (eg. develop and maintain overall L&C DBS architecture, roadmap and tools).
• Negotiate Key Legal Vendor Agreements.
• Support digital skill development of Legal & Compliance Associates.
• Support installation, maintenance and improvement of Corporate Legal & Compliance KPIs and install, maintain certified practitioners/trainers (CP/CT) and Kaizen Funnels.
• Optimize overall L&C legal spend.
• Drive savings through procuring legal and compliance systems at a Corporate level.
• Reduce duplicative systems used by Legal and Compliance teams.
• Business Relationship Manager for internal IT, Finance and other stakeholders at Corporate & Platform level.
• Install and maintain External Legal Spend analytics.
• Identifies and supports External Legal Spend saving opportunities.
• Provide leadership and direction to Data analytics projects.
• Facilitate Legal & Compliance Strategic DBS Events.
• Installs and maintains external legal vendors panel (including but not limited to law firms, professional services, etc.)
• Facilitate other DBS training sessions when appropriate (other trainers and consultants from Danaher, Shingijutsu, or other).
• Directly provide formal and informal DBS training and coaching.
• Further develop procured software to meet Legal and Compliance requirements.
• Assist site / company leadership in the development of a DBS roadmap.

Qualifications:

• Legal Technology Management Experience preferred.
• Experience working with Global Teams.
• Significant Legal and Compliance Operations Experience.
• Ability to drive effective change management in a Global and matrix environment.
• External Vendor Management Procurement Experience.
• Demonstrated ability to interact effectively with senior executives.
• Continuous Improvement, Lean or DBS experience; DBSL Preferred - Candidate will be required to pursue DBSL competency model.
• People management experience preferred.

Education and/or Experience:

• JD or local equivalent and a minimum of 10 years experience.

Travel

• Approximately 20-40% travel (domestic & international).

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.

Equal Pay Act

The salary range for this role is $160,000 - $180,000. 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.

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.

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.

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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 [email protected] to request accommodation.

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