[Hiring] Senior Regional PMO Leader @Danaher Corporation

Role Description

The Sr. Regional PMO Leader, PDS (EMEA & APAC) owns end-to-end program delivery for every Process Development Services customer in EMEA and APAC, wherever the work is done, and leads a multi-country team of Sr. Project Managers and Project Managers. The role holds a dotted-line view of PDS projects in China, acts as program executive on the region’s strategic programs, and is the PMO leadership point of contact for regional commercial partners.

What you will do:

• Regional Delivery & Performance: Lead project delivery across EMEA and APAC, ensuring strong performance across OTD, proposal and project cycle time, backlog health, customer satisfaction and data quality, while balancing demand, capacity and priorities across delivery sites.
• Portfolio & Customer Leadership: Manage the regional project portfolio and operating cadence with Commercial, CWMs, SMEs and Lab & Operations teams, including oversight of China projects where relevant; act as the senior regional escalation point and support executive customer engagement for strategic and complex programs.
• Strategic Program & Commercial Oversight: Provide executive oversight for high-priority, complex or multi-site programs, partnering with Project Managers on execution while managing senior customer governance, risks, escalations, scope changes and commercial performance, including revenue and margin.
• Team Leadership & Capability Development: Lead, coach and develop a multi-country Project Management team, strengthening senior PM decision-making, building succession and career pathways, and fostering an inclusive and engaged culture across geographies and time zones.
• Standard Work & Continuous Improvement: Deploy and sustain global PMO standard work, including Lead-to-Order, lifecycle governance, milestone discipline, risk and issue management and documentation quality; use KPIs and DBS continuous improvement to improve consistency, capacity and performance and scale best practices across regions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, engineering or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years leading programs in biotech/life sciences process development or technical services, with a customer-first mindset; commercial background preferred.
• 5+ years leading people across multiple sites or countries, including developing future leaders.
• Experience as program executive on strategic customer programs, owning the executive relationship and commercial outcomes.

Requirements

• Cross-cultural leadership across Europe and Asia; willing to travel up to 20–30%.
• Strong decision-maker who aligns Lab & Ops, SMEs and commercial partners, resolves trade-offs and owns the result.
• Demonstrated success deploying standard work, with strong KPI discipline and DBS/Lean experience.

Benefits

• Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology.
• We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.