At first glance, you’ll see Danaher’s scale. Our 80,000 associates work across the globe at more than 20 unique operating companies within four platforms—life sciences, diagnostics, water quality, and product identification. Look again and you’ll see the opportunity to build a meaningful career, be creative, and take risks with the support you need to be successful. You’ll find associates who are as certain about their impact as they are about where they’re headed next. You’ll find the Danaher Business System, which makes everything possible. You’ll also see a company that investors trust—our culture of continuous improvement has helped us outperform the S&P 500 by more than 5,000% over the past 25 years.

And no matter where you look at Danaher, at the heart of what we do, you’ll witness our shared purpose—helping realize life’s potential—in action. Whether we’re enabling our customers to provide clean water, supporting a life-saving vaccine development, advancing a new instrument for cancer diagnosis, or ensuring product safety, our work helps improve millions of lives.

We hope you’ll see yourself here, too. What you find at Danaher—and within yourself— might just change the world.

Position Summary

Danaher’s Director Public Relations & Media Relations will build and oversee Danaher’s new public relations and media relations program, to help grow Danaher brand awareness and perceptions among key stakeholders.

This role will direct global media and/or public relations activities, events, and campaigns, in partnership with agency partners and internal stakeholders, to ensuring Danaher’s corporate narrative is communicated effectively, fairly and accurately.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Serves as Danaher’s lead public relations/media relations strategist. Collaborates with functional leads to craft channel-specific media plans, while ensuring content is delivered within a cohesive “brand story” and corporate narrative.
• Partners closely with senior leaders to anticipate external business challenges or issues; recommends media/public relations solutions; addresses issues that have a broad impact on the business.
• Identifies speaking engagements, events, earned media opportunities.
• Coordinates messaging and campaigns across various owned channels (social media, press releases, DHR.com).
• Manages day-to-day operations and relationship with external Communications /PR agency partners to ensure best possible outcome for the organization.
• Coordinates/directs media training for C-Suite executes and spokespeople.
• Serves as global contact/spokesperson for crisis/issues or media inquiry response; coordinates with PR agency and Operating Companies, as needed.
• Establishes and tracks PR metrics/KPIs, as well budgets, policies, and standard work.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years media management, with minimum 8 years in Public Relations role for large Corporation or agency. Experience in life sciences, diagnostics, applied markets highly valued.
• Bachelor’s degree required with focus in public relations, journalism, communications, English literature or business desirable

Demonstrates expertise in:

• Writing press releases and editorials
• Managing agency relationships; meaningful relationships with KOLs/SMEs
• preparing for major events, running press conferences, handling media inquiries/ interview requests
• Strong collaborative approach with proven accountability for deliverables
• Ideal candidate has ability to generate unique story ideas; connects the dots and carries consistent themes across deliverables, as well as:
• Intrinsic interest in keeping up with media trends
• Analytical nature, metrics-focused with accountability for ROI and continuous improvement
• Established media relationships and/or prior experience interacting with media/serving as a spokesperson
• Experience coaching and working with C-Suite executives.
• Ability to travel up to 25%

This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Danaher Corporation can provide

• The salary range or hourly range for this role is 118,000- 175,000. 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. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in Colorado. This range may be modified in the future.
• This job is also eligible for bonus/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.

When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 80,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful Danaher Business System tools and the stability of a tested organization.