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At first glance, you’ll see Danaher’s scale. Our 80,000 associates work across the globe at more than 20 unique operating companies within four platforms—life sciences, diagnostics, water quality, and product identification. Look again and you’ll see the opportunity to build a meaningful career, be creative, and take risks with the support you need to be successful. You’ll find associates who are as certain about their impact as they are about where they’re headed next. You’ll find the Danaher Business System, which makes everything possible. You’ll also see a company that investors trust—our culture of continuous improvement has helped us outperform the S&P 500 by more than 5,000% over the past 25 years.

And no matter where you look at Danaher, at the heart of what we do, you’ll witness our shared purpose—helping realize life’s potential—in action. Whether we’re enabling our customers to provide clean water, supporting a life-saving vaccine development, advancing a new instrument for cancer diagnosis, or ensuring product safety, our work helps improve millions of lives.

We hope you’ll see yourself here, too. What you find at Danaher—and within yourself— might just change the world.

The Executive Assistant for Danaher is responsible for providing administrative services to executives and teams in the Danaher Corporate Legal organization. In this role, you will be responsible for handling meeting scheduling, travel arrangements, expense reporting, correspondence, reception, filing, mail delivery and external courier services, data entry, document management services, records management, office security, budget monitoring and office supply orders. You may also handle special projects of administrative nature.

This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in the eastern or central time zone.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Heavy calendar management - coordinate all aspects of the Executive’s schedules, including high volume of complex domestic and international travel arrangements; understand Executive’s needs and work to meet them.

• Communicate and coordinate early and clearly with other EA’s supporting the Danaher Leadership Team, staff and external contacts, to effectively plan schedules.

• Responsible for managing the legal invoice process and tracking using the Legal Tracker software platform.

• Serve as gatekeeper of the Executive’s time, schedule, and information while maintaining a courteous manner. Anticipate potential schedule conflicts and proactively deal with them before they become issues. Must be able to maintain complete confidentiality regarding details of schedules and related information.

• General project management assistance, including maintaining and updating action plans and timelines, scheduling meetings and interfacing with project groups as appropriate.

• Manage and reconcile expense reports and purchase requisitions. Manage memberships & subscriptions for executives & team members.

• Maintain files and manage invoice approval, submission, and tracking to assist with monthly budget forecast to Danaher Corporate.

• Produce PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, and Excel spreadsheets.

• Plan and coordinate meetings/gatherings for a variety of group sizes in worldwide locations.

• Set-up video conferencing and other media technology as needed.

• Answer/ screen phone calls, monitor email, and sort mail as requested.

• Understand Executive’s needs and work to meet them.

• Work closely with staff to ensure all deadlines and deliverables are met.

Education, Skills and Experience:

The ideal candidate must have experience providing excellent attention to detail, a demonstrated ability to anticipate the needs of others and exceptional written and oral communication skills. They should be an excellent problem-solver and have a strong work ethic; the ideal candidate will also be an independent thinker and self-starter with the bandwidth to multi-task and work on several key projects at a given time. It is important that the individual have superior interpersonal skills with an ability to work with people at multiple levels both inside and outside of Danaher. The candidate must be globally minded, able to deal with ambiguity and drive results without direct accountability.

• Bachelor’s degree preferred and 3-5 years of Executive Assistant experience required

• Experience in supporting global organizations

• Proven track record of performance, results, meeting deadlines, successfully managing administrative processes and maintaining a positive “can-do” attitude

• Professional communication style, both oral and written, including impeccable accuracy in formatting

• Must be highly proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Sharepoint software

• Excellent time management and ability to effectively multitask, juggle shifting priorities, deliver quickly and adapt to changing demands in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and unquestionable integrity

• Must be organized and capable of prioritizing and managing multiple projects / tasks

• Demonstrated ability to partner with other administrative professionals to manage competing needs and schedules

• Strong problem-solving skills and reasoning to quickly follow up and solve administrative issues

• Ability to learn the team’s primary business objectives, and through this understanding, anticipate administrative needs

Travel - less than 5%.

At Danaher we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team.

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When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 80,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful Danaher Business System tools and the stability of a tested organization.