HR Business Partner - Enabling Functions
Danaher Corporation
Summary
The Human Resources Business Partner – Enabling Functions is a strategic advisor and collaborator to senior business leaders in Legal, Finance, and IT, accountable for aligning people strategy with business priorities. They will drive performance, organizational effectiveness, and sustainable growth, while navigating complexity across talent, culture, organization design, and change. The role focuses on value creation, workforce strategy, and leadership effectiveness—leveraging HR Shared Services for transactional delivery. The HRBP partners closely with People Partners, COEs, and HR Shared Services to ensure scalable, compliant, and consistent execution while maintaining strategic ownership of the people agenda.
Job description
What you’ll do
- Translate business strategy into an integrated people strategy that supports growth, productivity, organizational priorities, and enterprise standards.
- Serve as a trusted advisor and coach to senior leaders on talent, organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, culture, and change.
- Use people data, business metrics, technology, and external insights to inform decisions and demonstrate HR’s impact on business outcomes.
- Partner with leaders to shape organization design, workforce strategy, succession planning, capability development, and leadership bench strength.
- Lead workforce planning and organization effectiveness efforts that address capability gaps, critical roles, future skills, and scalable business needs.
- Partner with Legal, Finance, COEs, People Partners, and HR Operations on complex or sensitive people matters, ensuring decision quality and consistent execution.
- Lead and support complex change initiatives, surface risks and dependencies, and guide adoption to deliver intended outcomes.
Who you are
- Undergraduate degree, plus proven progressive leadership roles in HR, MBA preferred
- Progressive experience in strategic HR business partnering, organizational effectiveness, and change leadership, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders and translate business needs into practical people solutions.
- Demonstrated experience designing and leading talent and leadership development approaches (e.g., succession planning, bench assessment, capability building) in partnership with leaders.
- Demonstrated data fluency and experience leveraging digital, analytics, or AI enabled tools to inform recommendations, influence decisions, and measure outcomes.
- Strong business and financial acumen; ability to assess tradeoffs and prioritize investments that support sustainable performance.
- Continuous improvement mindset; familiarity with lean principles and structured problem solving applied to HR processes and outcomes.
- Proven ability to operate effectively in complex, matrixed, and global environments, including influencing without authority and aligning diverse stakeholders.
Travel Requirements
- Ability to travel 25-30% for critical client meetings
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in
- Supporting mergers, acquisitions, or large‑scale business transformations.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree
- Proven progressive leadership roles in HR
- Progressive experience in strategic HR business partnering, organizational effectiveness, and change leadership
- Demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders and translate business needs into practical people solutions
- Demonstrated experience designing and leading talent and leadership development approaches (e.g., succession planning, bench assessment, capability building) in partnership with leaders
- Demonstrated data fluency and experience leveraging digital, analytics, or AI enabled tools to inform recommendations, influence decisions, and measure outcomes
- Strong business and financial acumen; ability to assess tradeoffs and prioritize investments that support sustainable performance
- Continuous improvement mindset; familiarity with lean principles and structured problem solving applied to HR processes and outcomes
- Proven ability to operate effectively in complex, matrixed, and global environments, including influencing without authority and aligning diverse stakeholders
- Ability to travel 25-30% for critical client meetings
Company overview
Danaher Corporation is a leading global science and technology innovator headquartered in Washington, D.C., specializing in biotechnology, life sciences, and diagnostics. Founded in 1984 by brothers Steven and Mitchell Rales, the company has evolved from its origins as a manufacturing conglomerate into a premier healthcare technology organization with approximately 63,000 employees worldwide. Danaher operates through three core divisions: biotechnology (28% of revenues), which develops products for therapeutic development; life sciences (31% of revenues), focused on disease identification, new therapies, and drug testing/manufacturing; and diagnostics (41% of revenues), providing instruments, consumables, and software for disease diagnosis. The company's portfolio includes renowned brands such as Beckman Coulter, Cytiva, Pall Corporation, Cepheid, Leica Microsystems, and Abcam, serving pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, healthcare providers, and research institutions globally. Danaher is distinguished by its Danaher Business System (DBS), a continuous improvement methodology that drives innovation and operational excellence. With 2024 revenues of $23.9 billion, the company ranks 180th on the Fortune 500 and plays a critical role in advancing scientific research, improving diagnostic capabilities, and accelerating the development of life-saving therapies.