Director, Talent Planning

Bring more to life. At Danaher, our work saves lives. And each of us plays a part. Fueled by our culture of continuous improvement, we turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life. Our 63,000+ associates work across the globe at more than 15 unique businesses within life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology. Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference?

At Danaher, you can build an incredible career at a leading science and technology company, where we’re committed to hiring and developing from within. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible. The Director, Talent Planning serves as the Talent Product Lead for Danaher’s enterprise talent planning portfolio.

This role owns the end-to-end lifecycle of talent planning products—including succession planning, critical role management, success profiles, talent pipelines, and enterprise talent reviews—ensuring they are globally consistent, scalable, data-informed, and business-relevant. This role is not HRIS or IT focused. Instead, it requires a deep talent management expert who applies a product management mindset to talent planning—grounded in voice-of-customer insight, disciplined design, iterative testing, and measurable business outcomes.

This role plays a critical part in standing up a new Talent capability modernizing how talent planning solutions are designed, deployed, and continuously improved across the enterprise. This position reports to the Global Head of Talent Planning. This position is fully remote and open globally, with practical preference for candidates based in North America or Europe to support collaboration across time zones.

• Partner closely with business and HR colleagues to understand business requirements and translate into strategies and plans for best-in-class, consistent and standard talent products that can scale and drive measurable impact enterprise-wide.
• Drive the harmonization and rationalization of disparate talent planning products across Danaher.
• Develop and maintain tools and frameworks for identifying critical roles, building success profiles, and conducting talent reviews.
• Review and design processes, tools and standard work for succession planning and managing critical talent across talent pipelines.
• Partner with HR Business Partners and Talent leaders to embed talent planning into broader talent architecture.

• 10+ years of experience in Talent Management, Talent Planning, Organizational Development, or related HR leadership roles, ideally in a global enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing talent planning and succession solutions with measurable business impact.
• Strong understanding of talent assessment, potential evaluation, and pipeline management practices.
• Ability to synthesize complex data and perspectives into practical, leader-ready solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or related field (Master’s degree preferred).

• Ability to travel – domestic and occasional international travel is required (up to 25%).

• Experience applying a product management mindset (user research iteration, testing, adoption metrics) to HR or Talent solutions.
• Strong program and change management capabilities.
liAbility to translate business needs into practical and customer-centric solutions that scale enterprise-wide.

Danaher 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 annual salary range for this role is $180,000- $210,000 USD. 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.

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