About the Role
The Senior Director, AI Deployment & Business Process Transformation is a strategic leadership role responsible for leading the enterprise AI agenda at SCIEX. This includes overseeing AI strategy development, transformation portfolio execution, and digital governance to deliver scalable, adopted solutions that generate quantifiable business outcomes. This role leads the global integration of Danaher Business System (DBS) principles with AI capabilities to define and execute a scalable transformation strategy across SCIEX. By combining structured problem solving, standard work, governance, and continuous improvement with enterprise AI, this leader will identify high-impact opportunities, accelerate deployment across core business processes, and ensure solutions are adopted in a disciplined and sustainable way. The Senior Director is accountable for translating strategy into measurable results while building the operating model, governance, and organizational capability required to embed AI at scale. Serving as a key liaison, this role aligns business stakeholders, Danaher, IT teams, and external partners to deploy AI solutions that are practical, seamlessly integrated into existing workflows, and maintained for long-term effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Co-develop and own SCIEX's global multi-year AI transformation strategy, ensuring alignment with Danaher priorities and SCIEX's broader growth agenda.
- Leverage and activate Danaher's enterprise AI investments to accelerate impact at SCIEX.
- Represent the AI agenda in senior leadership forums with Danaher and key external partners.
- Identify, prioritize, and deploy high-value AI use cases across service, commercial, operations, quality, and internal productivity.
- Translate business problems into clearly defined use cases with objectives, success metrics, adoption plans, and value realization measures to deliver measurable business impact.
- Partner with Danaher, IT, functional teams, and external vendors to design, pilot, scale, and sustain AI solutions across the enterprise.
- Own end-to-end delivery of AI and digital initiatives -- including intake, charters, roadmaps, milestones, governance, risk management, and transition to sustainment.
- Apply DBS rigor to ensure on-scope, on-time, and on-impact delivery.
- Develop productive partnerships with leading AI solution vendors in AI transformation.
- Lead cross-functional, cross-regional teams in a matrixed environment, balancing quality, execution, and change readiness across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Build and develop a high-performing team of transformation professionals once success is proven.
- Own the SCIEX AI Steering Committee -- setting governance structure, managing the executive agenda, and driving accountability across member functions through consistent, business-led decision-making frameworks and operating rhythms.
- Drive structured change management, training, communications, and user feedback loops to embed AI solutions into daily workflows and improve adoption at scale.
- Build enterprise-wide AI fluency through communities of practice, capability-building programs, and post-deployment ownership plans.
- Serve as a trusted partner to functional and executive leadership with clear visibility to progress, risks, and outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, data science, life sciences, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, enterprise‑scale digital, AI, analytics, or business transformation programs, with direct accountability for delivery, adoption, and outcomes.
- Experience managing relationships with AI solution vendors.
- Experience deploying AI, automation, or advanced analytics use cases from pilot through scaled implementation in business or operational environments, in combination with structured business process improvement (DBS/Lean methodologies).
- Experience establishing program and portfolio governance, including roadmaps, milestones, risk management, and value tracking across multiple concurrent initiatives in a highly matrixed organization.
- Proficiency with program and portfolio management practices, including initiative planning, dependency management, performance reporting, and participation in executive governance forums.
- Experience leading enterprise‑scale, cross‑functional change deployment, including training, communications, rollout planning, and post‑deployment sustainment for new digital capabilities.
- Background working across commercial, service, operations, quality, or regulated business processes within life sciences, diagnostics, medtech, or similarly complex, regulated industries.
- Willingness to travel up to 50%, including domestic and international travel per business needs.
- Valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record and valid passport, or the ability to obtain and maintain both.
- Ability to perform the essential physical requirements of the role, including occasionally lifting or moving items up to 40 lbs., with or without reasonable accommodation, as needed.
Skills
- AI strategy development
- Transformation portfolio execution
- Digital governance
- Danaher Business System (DBS)
- Structured problem solving
- Standard work
- Continuous improvement
- Program and portfolio management
- Change management
- Training
- Communications
- Generative AI
- Machine learning
- Intelligent automation
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- Leadership
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, data science, life sciences, or a related field.
- Advanced degree in business, engineering, computer science, data science, life sciences, or a related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $275,000 - $300,000
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Bonus/incentive pay
About the Company
- At SCIEX, 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.
- For more than 50 years, we have been empowering our customers to solve the most impactful analytical challenges in quantitation and characterization through groundbreaking innovation and outstanding reliability and support.
- You will be part of a winning team, enabled by DBS, that is passionate about helping life science experts around the world get to answers they can trust.
- Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.
- SCIEX, 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.
- At SCIEX 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.
- Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for SCIEX can provide.
- 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.
- For more information, visit www.danaher.com.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
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- We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
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