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Danaher

Makes tools for drug research and medical testing

Director, Global Key Account Management

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Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree with 14 or more years of experience, or a master's or doctoral degree with 12 or more years of experience in life science, large capital equipment, or services sales.
  • At least 4 years of people-management experience.
  • Experience developing and implementing strategic selling processes for large regional or global accounts.
  • Experience negotiating complex regional or global contracts with enterprise customers.
  • Working knowledge of mass spectrometry workflows and applied markets, CRO, pharma, or biopharma customer environments.
  • Experience leading cross-functional commercial projects with stakeholders across Commercial, Product Management, Marketing, and R&D.
  • Experience deploying the Danaher Business System (DBS) or a comparable business operating system to execute commercial priorities.
  • Ability to travel up to 50%, including overnight and international travel.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record and a valid passport.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute annual global key account strategies that drive growth, revenue, opportunity visibility, and market share within designated strategic accounts.
  • Lead, coach, and align a global key account team, including account mapping, governance, planning cadence, and execution against account priorities.
  • Build and strengthen executive and C-suite customer relationships to understand organizational needs, workflows, financial drivers, and long-term growth opportunities.
  • Partner with Commercial, Product Management, Marketing, and R&D stakeholders to align technology updates, strategic objectives, contracts, projects, and customer-specific initiatives.
  • Translate customer insights and decentralized account structures into actionable commercial strategies that improve consistency, coordination, and customer experience.
  • Lead strategic pricing reviews and implement price adjustments that support business objectives and optimize profitability.
  • Monitor performance against account plans, opportunity development, annual revenue growth, and market share expectations for named key accounts.

Desired Qualifications

  • A Master of Business Administration (MBA).
  • Experience applying mass spectrometry, chromatography, or capillary electrophoresis solutions to complex customer workflows.

About the Company

Danaher

Makes tools for drug research and medical testing

Danaher makes instruments, tests and laboratory supplies for drug developers, researchers and clinicians, spanning the path from biological research to clinical patient diagnosis. Its businesses include Cytiva for drug manufacturing, SCIEX for chemical analysis and Beckman Coulter for laboratory testing, linking specialized tools across healthcare workflows. Customers use its equipment to study cells, produce biological medicines and analyze patient samples; the group earns money by selling instruments, reagents, software and support services through its operating companies. Danaher was established in 1984 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Washington, DC
Founded
1984

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