Senior People Partner - Hardware Solutions - Duncan

Bring more to life at Cytiva, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, where our work saves lives. We’re united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact in life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging, where your unique viewpoint matters, and you can continuously improve yourself and the organization. At Cytiva, you’ll work on challenges that truly matter with people who care, helping transform human health through innovative solutions for biological research, vaccines, medicines, and cell and gene therapies.

About the role

The Senior People Partner – Hardware Solutions – Duncan will be a strategic partner across Duncan, SC, owning and delivering the local associate experience. This role shapes and executes strategies for engagement, culture, talent, and employer brand, while mitigating people risk, ensuring compliant governance, and influencing leaders to foster an inclusive and positive associate culture. The position enables people leaders to lead with confidence and clarity and works closely with HRBPs, COEs, and HR Shared Services to deliver scalable, compliant execution while maintaining ownership of the people agenda.

This is an on-site role based in Duncan, SC, reporting to the Senior Director People Partner, Americas.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Duncan site and remote Hardware Solutions business leaders to develop and execute people strategies that support organizational goals, strengthen team effectiveness, minimize workforce risk, and drive business performance.
• Collaborate with HRBPs and COEs (Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Total Rewards) to translate global workforce/talent strategies into locally effective programs that improve attraction and retention.
• Work with HR Business Partners and business leaders on local organizational design, operationalizing workforce plans, building succession pipelines, and ensuring timely execution of headcount actions.
• Ensure effective people governance and risk management, promoting consistent application of policies, compliance requirements, and employee relations practices.
• Partner with the LER COE and leaders to anticipate and manage complex, sensitive, or high-risk people matters, including crisis and emergency response, governing escalations, and strengthening preventative practices.
• Enable leaders through coaching and guidance on organizational design, workforce planning, leadership effectiveness, employee relations, and change management.
• Leverage technology, people insights, and workforce analytics to identify trends, inform decision-making, and improve organizational and talent outcomes.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree; MBA preferred.
• 7+ years of progressive leadership roles in HR.
• Broad HR generalist expertise (employee relations, compliance, talent, engagement) with the ability to independently translate global standards into locally compliant practices.
• Skilled in coaching and influencing people leaders on sensitive matters and driving adoption of modern HR operating practices (self-service/case management).
• Track record in leading local HR projects/change with moderate-to-high complexity and delivering measurable improvements to the associate experience.
• Uses people data and associate insights to spot trends and recommend actions with HRBPs/COEs and business leaders.
• Continuous improvement and process-oriented, with familiarity with lean principles and problem-solving in Human Resources.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements

• Expected travel up to 10% for team meetings, projects, and kaizens.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in regulated environments, managing HR governance (legal entity, audit/regulatory, crisis response) with high confidentiality and integrity.
• Experience operating in a complex, matrixed, and global organization.
• Leveraging digital, analytics, or AI-enabled tools to enhance HR decision-making and execution.

Benefits

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

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

Pay

The annual salary range for this role is $145,000 – $160,000. This role is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.