Senior Director, People Partner Americas

Cytiva; Duncan (SC); On-site; USD 185,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytiva is seeking a Senior Director, People Partner Americas to lead the HR organization across the Americas from onsite locations in Marlborough, MA, Duncan, SC or Pensacola, FL. You will shape engagement, culture, talent and employer brand, guiding leaders to deliver an inclusive associate experience.

You will partner with HRBPs, COEs, and Shared Services to deliver scalable, compliant execution, model modern HR practices, and enable leaders to operate with confidence.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree required.
• Long-standing experience in progressive HR leadership roles.
• Track record in coaching and influencing People Leaders and leading HR projects/change.
• Continuous improvement mindset with lean principles and data-driven decision making.
• Familiarity with digital, analytics, or AI-enabled HR tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing HR team across the Americas and drive HR evolution.
• Advise business leaders on people strategy, workforce planning, organizational health, and risk.
• Coach and guide People Leaders on complex topics with support from HR Partners and COEs.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and Total Rewards to implement regional programs.
• Assess ER/LR risk, govern escalations, and strengthen preventative practices.
• Activate global programs regionally and foster cross-group collaboration.
• Strengthen governance and performance culture with metrics and DBS-led execution.

Education

Undergraduate degree

Job description

Bring more to life.

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.

The Senior Director, People Partner Americas will be a strategic partner across the region that owns and delivers the associate experience across the region – shaping and delivering strategies for engagement, culture, talent, employee relations and employer brand. The role leads a large HR team across the region to anticipate and mitigate people risk, ensure compliant governance, and influence leaders to deliver an inclusive and positive associate culture while enabling people leaders to lead with confidence and clarity.

The Senior Director, People Partner Americas works closely with HRBPs, COEs, and HR Shared Services to deliver scalable, compliant execution while maintaining ownership of the people agenda. They model modern HR ways of working, using self-service and case management tools as the primary entry point for HR support.

This position reports to the Vice President, People Partner Global and is part of the People Partner Organization. The role is an onsite role to be based in one of the main US sites: Marlborough, MA, Duncan, SC or Pensacola, FL.

What You Will Do

• Lead and develop a high-performing HR team across the Americas, building HR organizational capability and driving HR Evolution through the sustainable adoption of new ways of working.
• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to business and functional leadership, with a large presence in the Americas, on people strategy, workforce planning, organizational health, and workforce risk ensuring consistent delivery of people priorities, change initiatives, and business outcomes across the region. Partner regionally to align engagement and workforce priorities across the region, ensuring consistent execution within enterprise guardrails.
• Enable People Leaders through coaching and guidance on complex people topics (e.g., organizational change, policy interpretation, leader effectiveness), leveraging the support from People Partners, HR Business Partners and HR Generalists as necessary.
• Partner with HRBPs and COEs (Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Total Rewards) to influence, shape and translate global workforce/talent strategies into effective programs that improve attraction and retention across the region
• Partner with the LER COE and leaders to assess ER/LR risk, govern escalations, and strengthen preventative practices.
• Activate global and COE programs across the region, leading or sponsoring key change initiatives and enabling cross-business collaboration.
• Strengthen the regional people partner governance and performance culture by increasing the use of AI, transparent metrics, bowler reviews and project-based execution and leading with DBS while building team’s capability, helping them develop and grow while improving associate experience and business impact

Who You Are

• Undergraduate degree
• Long standing experience of progressive leadership roles in HR
• Track record in coaching and influencing People Leaders and leading HR projects/change with moderate-to-high complexity and delivering measurable improvements to the associate experience.
• Continuous improvement and process oriented – has familiarity with lean principles, problem solving and how to apply them to Human Resources in a measurable and sustainable way
• Leveraging digital, analytics, or AI enabled tools to enhance HR decision making and execution.

Travel

• Ability to travel – 40 % travel, overnight, within region.

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.

Cytiva, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

The salary range for this role is $185,000-$210,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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