at Danaher Corporation in Deerfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Veralto
On September 14, 2022, Danaher announced its intention to separate its Environmental & Applied Solutions segment to create an independent, publicly traded company. The new company will be called Veralto and will be comprised of an outstanding collection of market-leading brands in Danaher’s Environmental and Applied Solutions segment: Hach, ChemTreat, Trojan, OTT HydroMet, and McCrometer from Danaher’s Water Quality Platform and Videojet, Esko, X-Rite Pantone and Linx from the Product Identification Platform. The Veralto segment generated revenue of approximately $4.8 billion in 2022 and has a global team of approximately 16,000 associates.
As stewards of the world’s most vital resources, Veralto will help ensure billions of people have safe food, water, and medicines every day. With a strong Danaher heritage, the Veralto team will continue to deliver trusted expertise to solve its customers’ most complex workflow challenges. Its culture of continuous improvement will be codified in the Veralto Enterprise System, which is derived from the Danaher Business System. Veralto will be headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, and intends to apply to list its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VLTO.
Position Summary
As the Director of Global Sourcing, Electrical you will drive competitive advantage by defining and deploying strategies for cost reduction, quality, and delivery across the corporation’s >$350M in spend across electronics, key technologies, OEM and semiconductor spend categories. The position will be responsible for leadership and spend performance across platforms, regions, and operating companies. You will provide indirect management supervision of operating companies’ category leaders that will result in cost reduction, cost avoidance, risk management and service/quality improvement to Veralto operating companies. Activities include gathering and analyzing spend and price data, identifying opportunities for consolidated negotiations based on operating company data, evaluating and selecting preferred suppliers, negotiating and implementing price agreements, managing and improving supplier performance, leading workshops and Kaizens, training acquisition associates on Veralto sourcing tools & processes; and, analyzing, reporting, and monitoring project savings against policy deployment goals. You would also be responsible for supporting integration projects associated with new acquisitions.
This position will be located at Veraltos’ corporate headquarters in Waltham, MA.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
+ Use Danaher Business System tools and processes to drive continuous improvements in quality, delivery, cost, inventory, cash, and risk reduction. Furthermore, drive strategic and tactical solutions by providing decision support data/materials (market data, financial analysis) with a vision of total cost management.
+ Lead integration of new acquisitions, incorporating global and regional commodity strategies with company procurement leaders. Train acquisition associates on sourcing tools, best practices, and standard processes
+ Lead funnel creation events, deliver cross-business savings and drive/monitor business-specific savings projects. Prepare and execute corporate-wide bid packages utilizing RFIs, RFPs, and reverse auctions while evaluating marketplace trends and providing price and budget guidance to operating companies for targeted spend categories
+ Lead the selection of preferred suppliers in targeted spend categories and manage their performance to ensure they consistently meet operating companies’ requirements. Increase the spend with P&Q and drive global contract agreements. In addition, establish supplier performance data requirements and report monthly performance data to users in operating companies while developing supplier relationships and contracts leveraging Veralto volume and growth.
+ Continuous improvement mentality to analyze, translate, determine root causes, develop action plans, and implement plan of action as necessary with strong analytical, negotiation and presentation skills required. Your ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information, influence, and persuade internal and external stakeholders.
Your Experience
+ Undergraduate degree in relevant area such as supply chain, business management, operations, or finance with 10-15+ years of leadership experience delivering year-over-year improvements in respective spend categories
+ Ability to work independently and with comfortably in ambiguous situations, knowing how to resolve conflicts and having a proven track record of achieving results.
+ Demonstrated effectiveness in communicating concepts and recommendations and gaining acceptance and commitment across organizational and functional lines. Experience managing direct and indirect reports in a decentralized and highly matrixed environment.
+ Strong proficiency in use of MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PowerBI and other analytical tools.
+ Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience presenting to executive teams.
Travel
+ Approximately 30% travel is required
At Veralto we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement.
Additional information about the work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Veralto can provide.
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 (https://www.danaher.com/how-we-work/danaher-business-system) tools and the stability of a tested organization.
Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. We value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.The EEO posters are available here (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters) .We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at applyassistance@danaher.com to request accommodation. If you’ve ever wondered what’s within you, there’s no better time to find out.
