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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 Uppsala, Sweden 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
We review applications on an ongoing basis and look forward to hearing from you. Submit your application today – we’re excited to learn more about you!
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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.
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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.
