Human Resources Business Partner – Enabling Functions is a strategic advisor and collaborator to senior business leaders in Legal, Finance, and IT, accountable for aligning people strategy with business priorities. They will drive performance, organizational effectiveness, and sustainable growth, while navigating complexity across talent, culture, organization design, and change. The role focuses on value creation, workforce strategy, and leadership effectiveness—leveraging HR Shared Services for transactional delivery. The HRBP partners closely with People Partners, COEs, and HR Shared Services to ensure scalable, compliant, and consistent execution while maintaining strategic ownership of the people agenda.
This position reports to the Vice President, Talent Management & Human Resources and is located in Marlborough, MA or Amersham, UK and will be an on-site role.
What you’ll do
- Translate business strategy into an integrated people strategy that supports growth, productivity, organizational priorities, and enterprise standards.
- Serve as a trusted advisor and coach to senior leaders on talent, organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, culture, and change.
- Use people data, business metrics, technology, and external insights to inform decisions and demonstrate HR’s impact on business outcomes.
- Partner with leaders to shape organization design, workforce strategy, succession planning, capability development, and leadership bench strength.
- Lead workforce planning and organization effectiveness efforts that address capability gaps, critical roles, future skills, and scalable business needs.
- Partner with Legal, Finance, COEs, People Partners, and HR Operations on complex or sensitive people matters, ensuring decision quality and consistent execution.
- Lead and support complex change initiatives, surface risks and dependencies, and guide adoption to deliver intended outcomes.
Who you are
- Undergraduate degree, 10+ years of progressive leadership roles in HR, MBA preferred
- Progressive experience in strategic HR business partnering, organizational effectiveness, and change leadership, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders and translate business needs into practical people solutions.
- Demonstrated experience designing and leading talent and leadership development approaches (e.g., succession planning, bench assessment, capability building) in partnership with leaders.
- Demonstrated data fluency and experience leveraging digital, analytics, or AI enabled tools to inform recommendations, influence decisions, and measure outcomes.
- Strong business and financial acumen; ability to assess tradeoffs and prioritize investments that support sustainable performance.
- Continuous improvement mindset; familiarity with lean principles and structured problem solving applied to HR processes and outcomes.
- Proven ability to operate effectively in complex, matrixed, and global environments, including influencing without authority and aligning diverse stakeholders.
Travel Requirements:
- Ability to travel 25-30% for critical client meetings
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
- Supporting mergers, acquisitions, or large‑scale business transformations.
Danaher offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at .
The annual salary range for this role is $190,000-200,000. 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. 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.
