Senior Director, People Partner Americas

Bring more to life at Cytiva, a Danaher operating company, where our work in life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology saves lives. We’re united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact, fostering a culture of belonging where your unique viewpoint matters. By leveraging Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you’ll help turn ideas into impact—innovating at the speed of life. Our customers undertake life-saving activities, from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.

About the role

The Senior Director, People Partner Americas will serve as a strategic partner across the region, owning and delivering the associate experience. This role shapes and delivers strategies for engagement, culture, talent, employee relations, and employer brand. You will lead a large HR team across the Americas to anticipate and mitigate people risk, ensure compliant governance, and influence leaders to foster an inclusive and positive associate culture. The position enables people leaders to lead with confidence and clarity while modeling modern HR ways of working.

This role is onsite and based in one of the main US sites: Marlborough, MA, Duncan, SC, or Pensacola, FL. It reports to the Vice President, People Partner Global and is part of the People Partner Organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing HR team across the Americas, building HR organizational capability and driving HR Evolution through sustainable adoption of new ways of working.
• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to business and functional leadership on people strategy, workforce planning, organizational health, and workforce risk, ensuring consistent delivery of people priorities and business outcomes.
• Partner regionally to align engagement and workforce priorities, ensuring consistent execution within enterprise guardrails.
• Enable People Leaders through coaching and guidance on complex people topics (e.g., organizational change, policy interpretation, leader effectiveness).
• Partner with HRBPs and COEs (Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Total Rewards) to influence and shape global workforce/talent strategies into effective regional programs that improve attraction and retention.
• Partner with the LER COE and leaders to assess ER/LR risk, govern escalations, and strengthen preventative practices.
• Activate global and COE programs across the region, leading or sponsoring key change initiatives and enabling cross-business collaboration.
• Strengthen regional people partner governance and performance culture by increasing the use of AI, transparent metrics, and project-based execution while building team capability.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree.
• Long-standing experience in progressive leadership roles in HR.
• Track record in coaching and influencing People Leaders and leading HR projects/change with moderate-to-high complexity.
• Experience delivering measurable improvements to the associate experience.
• Continuous improvement and process-oriented mindset with familiarity in lean principles and problem-solving.
• Ability to leverage digital, analytics, or AI-enabled tools to enhance HR decision-making and execution.

Travel

40% travel, overnight, within the region.

Benefits

Cytiva offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs, including:

• Paid time off.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $185,000–$210,000. This role is also eligible for incentive pay.