Global Senior Vice President of Sales

Danaher Corporation

12d•$340,000 - $390,000•Onsite

About The Position

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences is seeking a Global Senior Vice President of Sales to build and lead a modern, world-class commercial organization that delivers durable share gain, profitable growth, and customer impact. This role involves driving a transformation in how the company sells, serves, and wins. It is a high-authority, high-accountability position with broad influence across strategy, go-to-market, talent, and operating cadence, powered by the Danaher Business System (DBS). The ideal leader will create a growth engine that scales globally, develops leaders, and sets a new standard for commercial excellence.

Requirements

Master degree in Business, Finance, Marketing, or a technical vocation. An advanced degree is strongly preferred.
Significant experience leading a large, complex, global commercial leadership team.
Process and detail-oriented – relentless in execution to ensure process discipline creates results.
Proven credentials of building a results-focused, high-performance team that has driven strong, profitable revenue growth on a consistent basis in a highly competitive environment.
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across the organization.
Leads with cultural sensitivity and awareness of the appropriate leadership style for a given geography.
Proven successful record in sales leadership as well as leadership of a complex, multifunctional, commercial organization.
Successful functioning in a demanding, action-oriented environment.
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across the whole organization, including sales, marketing, field application and business support functions. Demonstrated ability to “Win as One” team.
The ideal candidate will have successfully overcome obstacles, either structural or interpersonal, that have presented collaboration in prior roles.
Ability to use strong strategic and analytical capabilities to develop and implement effective strategies that balance the desire for growth with the need to do so profitably.
At least 50% travel is required.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the medical device, healthcare, or Life Science industry is preferred.

Responsibilities

Deliver profitable growth and durable share gain by setting and executing a global commercial growth strategy with clear priorities, initiatives, and accountability.
Translate customer and market insight into segment-specific plays that drive measurable share gain.
Lead global planning and operating rhythms, including targets, forecasting, performance reviews, and corrective action.
Partner with Product, Marketing, Service, and Regional leaders to turn launches and solutions into adoption and pull-through.
Anticipate and respond to disruptions and competitive moves with speed and discipline.
Build a modern, scalable sales system (DBS-powered) by implementing and continuously improving commercial fundamentals using DBS (daily/weekly management, problem-solving, standard work, KPI-driven execution).
Upgrade systems for coverage, account planning, territory design, pipeline management, and pricing/value conversations.
Drive resource allocation decisions with a clear ROI lens, placing investment where it wins.
Develop elite talent and a high-performance culture by building, coaching, and retaining a diverse global leadership team that raises the bar for performance and integrity.
Create a culture that combines psychological safety with high accountability, clear standards, direct feedback, and coaching.
Establish succession plans and development pathways at every level, making leadership development a visible operating mechanism.
Win as one—fostering cross-functional and across Danaher collaboration by leading commercial partnerships with Danaher OpCos to unlock customer coverage, bundled value, and enterprise wins.
Represent the company with key customers, strategic partners, and industry stakeholders.
Support growth acceleration through M&A, including identifying opportunities, providing diligence input, and leading integration for commercial workstreams.