Strategic Partnerships Leader - Global Growth

Danaher Corporation; København; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Radiometer, a Danaher operating company, seeks a Senior Manager for Strategic Partnerships and Adjacencies to coordinate external collaborations across diagnostics and digital health from Radiometer’s Copenhagen HQ. The role emphasizes governance, value realization, and cross-functional integration. Regular travel within Europe is expected.

You will lead partnership enablement, establish operating models, and drive portfolio alignment with innovation priorities and future growth spaces.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Significant experience managing strategic partnerships, alliances, collaborations, or external ecosystem relationships.
• Experience in healthcare, medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, or life sciences environments preferred.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Strong business acumen to assess strategic fit, value potential and risks of partnerships.
• Experience establishing governance mechanisms and partnership operating models.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize a portfolio of external partnerships across diagnostics, digital health, workflow solutions and adjacent areas.
• Act as the partnership operating model owner: define governance, KPIs, review cadence, escalation routes, and decision inputs.
• Connect external opportunities to portfolio and innovation priorities.
• Build and maintain an external innovation ecosystem with technology companies, startups, and research institutions.
• Serve as the primary interface for selected external partners across R&D, Product Management, Commercial, Regulatory, Legal, Finance, Operations and regional stakeholders.
• Support partnership setup and lifecycle management: evaluation, business case input, contract support, launch readiness, and ongoing reviews.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure partnerships are structured, managed, and deliver intended outcomes.

Skills

Strategic partnerships

Cross-functional collaboration

Governance

Performance metrics

External partnerships

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering/Life Sciences/BIomedical Sciences/Business/Economics

Tools

Danaher Business System (DBS)

Job description

Radiometer, a Danaher operating company, seeks a Senior Manager for Strategic Partnerships and Adjacencies to coordinate external collaborations across diagnostics and digital health from Radiometer’s Copenhagen HQ. The role emphasizes governance, value realization, and cross-functional integration. Regular travel within Europe is expected.

You will lead partnership enablement, establish operating models, and drive portfolio alignment with innovation priorities and future growth spaces.