At first glance, you’ll see Danaher’s scale. Our 80,000 associates work across the globe at more than 20 unique operating companies within four platforms—life sciences, diagnostics, water quality, and product identification. Look again and you’ll see the opportunity to build a meaningful career, be creative, and take risks with the support you need to be successful. You’ll find associates who are as certain about their impact as they are about where they’re headed next. You’ll find the Danaher Business System, which makes everything possible. You’ll also see a company that investors trust—our culture of continuous improvement has helped us outperform the S&P 500 by more than 5,000% over the past 25 years.
And no matter where you look at Danaher, at the heart of what we do, you’ll witness our shared purpose—helping realize life’s potential—in action. Whether we’re enabling our customers to provide clean water, supporting a life-saving vaccine development, advancing a new instrument for cancer diagnosis, or ensuring product safety, our work helps improve millions of lives.
We hope you’ll see yourself here, too. What you find at Danaher—and within yourself— might just change the world.
The Manager, Internal Communications will be an integral member of the Danaher communications team. In this role, you will serve as the primary communications resource on projects that advance key strategic initiatives. You will provide strategic support to colleagues by developing and executing robust communication plans leveraging a range of channels and tactics including branded emails, webcasts, videos, and content for Danaher’s intranet and all-associate publications.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Work with key stakeholder groups to build clear communications strategies and plans.
• Manage, execute, and oversee performance of multiple projects/stakeholders simultaneously, ensuring quality work, plan creation and execution aligned to goals.
• Understand and execute the broader communications strategy with stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrate strong storytelling/writing excellence when crafting communications.
• Create engaging and impactful content, including newsletters, memos, emails, intranet articles, videos, presentations, and other communication materials.
• Manage and maintain internal communication channels and platforms, such as intranet, employee newsletters, collaboration tools, and digital signage systems.
• Support development and execution of communications tactics including branded emails, videos, resource guides, FAQs, talking points, script development, webcast management/coordination, and web/intranet copywriting.
• Ability to reach different audiences with tailored messages, leveraging multiple channels.
• Manage end-to-end creation and execution of key webcasts – including content creation, show flow development, speaker selection/prep and logistics.
• Ensure all communications align with the Danaher brand, purpose, and core values.
• Understand new/emerging communications tactics and technologies designed to improve digital platforms), in person channels, content development and publishing.
• Manage the flow of relevant communications materials delivered through a variety of channels to 80,000+ global Danaher associates.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and collect feedback from employees through surveys, focus groups, and other feedback mechanisms.
• Analyze data to measure the impact of communication efforts/identify improvement areas.
Preferred Qualifications
You must be an excellent and articulate communicator, intellectually curious and have a strong work ethic. You should be an independent thinker and self-starter with the bandwidth to multitask, prioritize and work on several key projects at a given time. You must have the ability to participate in spirited give-and-take discussions about your work. It is important that you have superior interpersonal and influencing skills with an ability to work with people at multiple levels.
To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate:
• Sound judgment and decision-making skills
• A track record in communicating and supporting change management through transformation for enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Strong creative capability to transform messages into compelling executions that drive action
• A drive to innovate and provide new thinking aligned to Danaher’s and the team’s strategies.
• An ability to manage up, down, and across the matrix to complete projects on time.
• Strong project management skills, with a proven ability to move forward communications initiatives in a global, matrixed environment.
• The ability to take very technical ideas and concepts and put them into common language that is understandable by a general audience.
• A creative, state-of-the-art communications mindset – a professional who understands emerging technologies and has a passion for exploring new methods.
• Global project management expertise and a familiarity working in a global corporation with multiple lines of business and a multi-generational workforce.
• Exceptional storytelling, writing, editing and presentation skills.
• A strong attention to detail, superior time management and organizational skills.
• Comfort working in a high-energy, quickly changing and demanding environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Journalism or English required.
• Minimum 5-6 years of related or relevant work experience in large, global organizations
• Availability to travel as needed – estimated at 10%
Your character
• A positive mindset that operates with optimism and high integrity.
• Intellectually curious and continuously seeking new, improved ways to engage.
• Possesses the confidence to give direct, honest feedback to senior executives and leaders.
• Executes at speed without compromising judgement and attention to detail.
• Actively listens and leads with authenticity and compassion.
• A proactive approach that thrives on accountability.
• Smart enough to keep things simple.
• Humble and fun, with a good heart.
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 Danaher Corporate can provide
The salary range for this role is $90,000 – 120,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.
We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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 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.
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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.
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