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Senior Strategic Account Executive

Danaher Corporation

Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Denver, CO; Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Detroit, MI; St. Louis, MO; Charlotte, NC; Portland, OR; Milwaukee, WIRemotePosted 24 days ago$225,000 - $260,000
Full TimeSenior LevelCommercial & Pharma SalesLife Science Service & Supply
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Summary

The Senior Strategic Account Executive is responsible for leading Leica Biosystems' largest, most complex, and most strategically important healthcare customers. This role serves as a senior executive-facing commercial leader accountable for enterprise revenue growth, market share expansion, competitive displacement, and long-term business growth across priority health systems, IDNs, academic medical centers, and strategic healthcare organizations.

Job description

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Own enterprise growth strategy, revenue performance, and market share expansion across Leica Biosystems' largest and most strategically important healthcare organizations.
  • Develop and execute multi-year growth strategies focused on transformational opportunities, enterprise partnerships, competitive conversions, and long-term expansion.
  • Lead the organization's most complex strategic pursuits, including enterprise agreements, large-scale health system initiatives, and executive-sponsored opportunities.
  • Build trusted relationships with C-suite leaders and key stakeholders to influence customer strategy, enterprise decisions, and long-term commercial outcomes.
  • Leverage healthcare market expertise and mobilize senior leaders and cross-functional resources to advance complex opportunities, improve win rates, and deliver sustained revenue growth and market share gains.

The essential requirements of the job include:

  • Bachelor's degree required with minimum 10+ years of progressive healthcare sales, strategic account management, business development, diagnostics, medical device, healthcare technology, or capital equipment experience.
  • Demonstrated success managing large IDNs, health systems, GPOs, academic medical centers, or complex enterprise healthcare customers with significant strategic or commercial impact.
  • Proven ability to influence C-suite executives and senior enterprise decision makers within complex healthcare organizations and build long-term strategic partnerships.
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex enterprise opportunities, system-wide agreements, RFPs, strategic partnerships, or multi-year health system growth strategies requiring executive sponsorship and cross-functional execution.
  • Strong healthcare business acumen, including understanding of health system economics, customer value drivers, financial and deal structure, market dynamics, and enterprise decision-making processes.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

Travel: 50-75%. Must possess a valid driver's license and have the ability to travel overnight for territory coverage, executive customer engagements, strategic business reviews, internal meetings, and company meetings.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

  • MBA, MHA, or other advanced business, healthcare, or scientific degree.
  • Leading strategic partnerships, enterprise agreements, or system-wide commercial initiatives across large IDNs, academic medical centers, or national healthcare organizations.
  • Advanced understanding of hospital operating financials, healthcare economics, reimbursement dynamics, value analysis processes, and enterprise purchasing strategies.
  • Coaching, mentoring, or informally developing commercial associates on strategic account planning, executive customer engagement, and enterprise opportunity execution.
  • Leveraging DBS tools and standard work to drive enterprise account strategy, execution discipline, funnel management, countermeasures, and sustainable growth outcomes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Minimum 10+ years of progressive healthcare sales, strategic account management, business development, diagnostics, medical device, healthcare technology, or capital equipment experience
  • Demonstrated success managing large IDNs, health systems, GPOs, academic medical centers, or complex enterprise healthcare customers
  • Proven ability to influence C-suite executives and senior enterprise decision makers
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex enterprise opportunities, system-wide agreements, RFPs, strategic partnerships, or multi-year health system growth strategies
  • Strong healthcare business acumen including health system economics, customer value drivers, financial and deal structure, market dynamics, and enterprise decision-making processes
  • Must possess a valid driver's license
  • Ability to travel overnight for territory coverage, executive customer engagements, strategic business reviews, internal meetings, and company meetings
  • Travel: 50-75%

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Paid time off
  • 401(k)

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.

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