Senior Director, Global AI Deployment & Business Process Transformation

Job description

Bring more to life. Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? 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. As part of SCIEX, you will help influence life-changing research and outcomes while accelerating your potential. 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. 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. This position reports to the VP of Global Service, Operational Excellence and AI Deployment, is part of the Product Management group, and will be fully remote. In this role, you will have the opportunity to: 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, and 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 -- translating 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 - bringing Danaher platform capabilities and proven solutions to life at SCIEX. Own end-to-end delivery of AI and digital initiatives -- including intake, charters, roadmaps, milestones, governance, risk management, and transition to sustainment -- applying 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; further build enterprise-wide AI fluency through communities of practice, capability-building programs, and post-deployment ownership plans -- while serving as a trusted partner to functional and executive leadership with clear visibility to progress, risks, and outcomes. The essential requirements of the job include: 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, and 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. Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements: 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. It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in: An advanced degree in business, engineering, computer science, data science, life sciences, or a related field. Experience deploying generative AI, machine learning, or intelligent automation solutions using enterprise platforms or cloud-based AI environments. Experience supporting commercial, service, R&D, operations, or quality functions in life sciences, diagnostics, biotechnology, or another regulated industry. #LI-KW4 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. 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 SCIEX can provide. The annual salary range for this role is $275,000 - $300,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensati