Job Title: Director, R&D LBS CH Shanghai R&D
Reports To: VP/GM Site Leader LBS Shanghai Center of Excellence (COE)
Department： LBS CH Shanghai R&D
Purpose/Objective:
Provide strategic and operational leadership for the LBS CH China R&D organization, ensuring alignment with global and local business strategies. Drive innovation and product development to deliver high-quality solutions that meet customer needs and business objectives.
Area of Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership
- Partner with VP/GM Site Leader to define and execute R&D strategy in China in alignment with global business objectives.
- Contribute to long-term technology roadmap and portfolio innovation initiatives.
Innovation Excellence
- Lead multidisciplinary R&D teams (mechanical, electronics, software, systems, and V&V) to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of new products and sustaining projects with high quality.
- Go beyond technical innovation and product development by directly linking innovation strategies to the company’s long-term business growth. Ensure that R&D innovation is deeply integrated with commercial objectives, transforming innovative outcomes into market advantages and sustainable business value.
- Drive compliance with regulatory standards, quality systems, and safety requirements across all R&D operations.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with product management, program management, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality teams to achieve KPIs including On-Time Delivery (OTD), cost optimization (PPV/VAVE), and product quality.
- Foster collaboration with global teams to leverage best practices and ensure technology integration.
Talent Development & Leadership
- Build and develop a high-performing R&D organization, nurturing technical and leadership capabilities.
- Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) and create an engaging, innovative work culture.
Continuous Improvement
- Apply DBS (Danaher Business System) tools to drive process optimization and operational efficiency.
- Identify and implement innovative solutions to complex technical and organizational challenges.
Person Specification:
Skills / Competencies
- Proven leadership experience in leading and managing cross functional teams in multinational companies
- Strong experience in leading multidisciplinary R&D teams in medical device industry
- Excellent team player with good interpersonal skills in a matrix organization
Functional Knowledge
- Requires comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles within own discipline and knowledge of others.
Business expertise
- Apply knowledge of key business drivers and the factors that maximize performance for area of responsibility.
Leadership
- Manages multiple related teams, sets departmental priorities and allocates resources to align with business objectives and annual plan.
Problem Solving
- Identifies and solves complex, operational and organizational problems by leveraging the appropriate resources within or outside the department.
Impact
- Guided by organization functional business plans, impacts the department results by supporting and funding of projects, products, services and/or technologies.
Interpersonal Skills
- Persuades managers and leaders to take action and/or negotiate with external partners/vendors/customers.
Education
- B.S. degree in Engineering, advanced degree preferred.
Language
- Native Chinese & Excellent English communication ability (verbal and written)
Preferred Qualification
- Experience in pathology equipment and intelligent diagnostic R&D is preferred
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.
Skills Required
- Proven leadership experience in leading and managing cross functional teams in multinational companies
- Strong experience in leading multidisciplinary R&D teams in medical device industry
- B.S. degree in Engineering, advanced degree preferred
- Native Chinese & Excellent English communication ability
- Experience in pathology equipment and intelligent diagnostic R&D is preferred
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What We Do
Beckman Coulter is committed to advancing healthcare for every person by applying the power of science, technology, and the passion and creativity of our teams to enhance the diagnostic laboratory’s role in improving healthcare outcomes. Our diagnostic systems are used in complex biomedical testing, and are found in hospitals, reference laboratories and physician office settings around the globe. Beckman Coulter offers a unique combination of people, processes and solutions designed to elevate the performance of clinical laboratories and healthcare networks. We do this by accelerating care with a menu that matters, bringing the benefit of automation to all, delivering greater insights through clinical informatics and unlocking hidden value through performance partnership. An operating company of Danaher Corporation since 2011, Beckman Coulter is headquartered in Brea, Calif., and has more than 11,000 global associates working diligently to make the world a healthier place.
