Senior Employee Relations Partner, Americas

About the role

At Cytiva, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, you’ll design, own, and execute the Labour and Employee Relations strategy for the Americas, ensuring alignment with business objectives, workforce planning priorities, risk mitigation, and Cytiva’s long-term organisational design. This role includes hands-on case management and provides strategic direction, governance, and thought leadership across the Americas employee relations landscape. You’ll support wider HR teams across the region, ensuring practices align with applicable legislation, company policies, and Cytiva’s values.

Primary responsibility covers North America (including Canada and Puerto Rico), handling casework across manufacturing, non-manufacturing, and corporate workforces. The role reports to the Senior Director People Partner, Americas, and is ideally on-site at one of our sites in Duncan, SC; Logan, UT; Marlborough, MA; or Pensacola, FL. While posted as on-site in the US, applications from qualified candidates in other US locations will be considered equally.

Responsibilities

• Provide pragmatic, strategic advice and leadership on employee relations matters, partnering with Legal, HR colleagues, People Leaders, and Danaher’s LER COE to proactively manage risk, ensure compliance and consistency, govern escalations, and support effective resolution of workforce issues.
• Manage a broad and varied employee relations caseload, including routine, moderate, complex, and sensitive matters. Offer clear, practical, and legally informed advice to HR colleagues and People Leaders while identifying risk, determining case strategy, and ensuring consistent and defensible outcomes.
• Conduct investigations where required and provide guidance, oversight, and quality assurance to HR colleagues undertaking investigations to ensure thorough, consistent, and compliant practices.
• Coordinate with Danaher legal and external counsel on litigation, draft separation agreements, and escalate legal or reputational risk through designated frameworks.
• Provide strategic ER support and project manage restructures, reductions in workforce, changes to operating models, and other organizational transformation activity, ensuring legally compliant, consistent, and commercially balanced outcomes.
• Offer functional leadership, coaching, and escalation support to HR colleagues and People Leaders, strengthening ER capability and ensuring consistent standards of case management and outcome documentation.
• Develop employee relations governance frameworks, analyze ER trends, and translate data into strategic interventions and preventative action plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field with 9+ years of experience, OR Master's degree in a related field with 7+ years of experience, OR Doctoral degree in a related field.
• Significant experience operating at Senior Employee Relations Partner level or equivalent across the Americas, including demonstrable experience designing and delivering an employee relations strategy across a complex, multi-site organization.
• Strong working understanding of employment law frameworks, with the ability to apply this knowledge in practice.
• Proven experience advising senior leaders on high-risk employee relations matters, including organizational change, restructures, employment litigation, and settlement/separation agreements.
• Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy, judgment, and influence, including making recommendations on matters involving material legal, employee relations, reputational, or business risk.
• Experience partnering with People Leaders and HR colleagues in a complex matrix environment, balancing legal compliance, business priorities, employee experience, and consistent employee relations outcomes.

Skills

It would be a plus if you have a degree in Law, Employment Law, Human Resources, or a related discipline.

Schedule

Ability to travel 30% across our sites in the Americas, as and when required.

Pay

The annual salary range for this role is $114,000 to $130,000. This range may be modified in the future. The role is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

Benefits

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

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