Senior Director, Danaher Business System Leader - QARA

Senior Director, Danaher Business System Leader – QARA

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? At Cytiva, one of Danaher's 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we're all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You'll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher's system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.

At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career.

The Senior Director, Danaher Business System Leader – QARA is a global role responsible for embedding DBS into how the Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs (QARA) organization plans, operates, and continuously improves across Cytiva. Overall, role as a global DBS change leader for QARA, focused on embedding continuous improvement into quality and regulatory processes while strengthening compliance, performance, capability, and digital enablement.

Further this role will deploy and embed DBS across global QARA, ensuring DBS methods are integrated into the QMS and used to improve quality, regulatory, and operational performance. You will be responsible to lead the integration of DBS within the QMS by ensuring DBS methodologies are appropriately embedded in quality processes and that DBS-driven activities (e.g., Kaizens, PSPs, problem-solving initiatives) trigger the required quality records, risk assessments, and closed-loop actions whenever product, process, or compliance impacts are identified.

Partner closely with global QARA leadership, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Supplier Quality, Operations, and DBS resources to drive regulatory-compliant execution, risk reduction, and sustained performance improvement through disciplined application of DBS. While you will contribute across the areas below, success is driven first by establishing a strong DBS operating system within QARA, then delivering measurable compliance and performance improvements, and finally scaling capability and digital enablement.

This is a full-time, global role reporting into the Group VP QARA
-Biotechnology and will be an onsite role in Amersham, UK or Marlborough, MA.

What will you do:

• Lead the development and execution of the QARA DBS roadmap, including Policy Deployment, KPI management, Daily Management, visual management, and structured problem solving.
• Drive an effective operating cadence through leadership reviews, risk assessments, opportunity evaluations, and continuous improvement planning.
• Build DBS capability across the QARA organization through coaching, training, kaizen facilitation, standard work implementation, and disciplined follow-up.
• Advance quality, compliance, and operational excellence by applying DBS tools to address deviations, CAPAs, audit findings, inspections, regulatory commitments, and customer complaints.
• Manage the global QARA kaizen and problem-solving funnel, ensuring initiatives are strategically prioritized, rigorously executed, and sustainably embedded.
• Represent QARA within the DBS Community of Practice, sharing best practices and leveraging enterprise-wide learnings to strengthen organizational performance.
• Champion digital,…