Job Description

At Cepheid, we are passionate about improving healthcare through faster, more accurate diagnostic tests. With our GeneXpert System, weve taken the most sophisticated molecular technology and packaged it into an automated, easy-to-use format that has quickly become the platform of choice worldwide. From the largest laboratories to small physician offices, our game-changing solution delivers critical answers when clinicians and patients need them most. Through strong molecular biology capabilities and ongoing product innovation, we are focused on developing tests for healthcare-associated infections, sexual health, critical infectious disease, virology, and oncology applications. Come join our vision for a better way and help make life better for us all! For more details, visit us at www.cepheid.com or follow us on Twitter (@CepheidNews).

Job Description

*Note: this position can be remote from anywhere in the US.*

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Build and cultivate superb working relationships with global and local partners.
* Plan, advise and be responsible for the development and delivery of an international deployment roadmap.
* Communicate a clear vision of the projects objectives and help prepare a path for the project team to achieve them.
* Take ownership for implementation methodology and continue to tailor and refine in order to optimize for Cepheids business model.
* Develop of project proposals which include prioritization, budgeting, staffing, timelines, and task breakdowns.
* Be a champion for project communications including Steering committee content and weekly status reports.
* Coordinate internal and external staff to complete project work you're doing. Direct and coordinate activities of multi-functional teams to ensure project progresses on schedule and within budget
* Advance issues encountered and help facilitate successful resolution.
* Passionately review the project status with team members and modify schedules and plans as the need arises.
* Measure project results against project scope. Proactively identify changes in work scope and take appropriate steps to amend the scope of work requirements, budget and timeline
* Perform risk management analysis to minimize project risks
* Build and maintain comprehensive project documentation such that the execution playbook is reusable for the next country.
* Be an IT leader in the participation and development of PMO standard methodologies

TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES: (REQUIRED)

* Finish the assigned and required training on time
* For people managers, ensure your associates attend and finish the required trainings satisfactorily and on time.

Minimum requirements:

Education and Experience (in years):

* Bachelors Degree in computer science, Business, or related field.
* demonstrated ability as an Information technology professional.
* 8+ years of Project Mgmt leadership experience implementing large, sophisticated, multi-country enterprise application projects.
* 8 + years of experience and exposure to SAP ERP system.
* Minimum of 3 (three) SAP turn-key implementation projects.
* 5+ years in leadership role where you developed a team of IT staff.
* 5+ years functional expertise and business experience for global corporation.
* 3+ International business experience.

Knowledge and skills:

* Highly adept I.T. Business Analysis skills.
* Demonstrated solid skills with effective/critical fact-based decision making.
* Successful track record with coordinating, guiding and leading teams during a stressful project.
* Fluency in English (both written and verbal).

Preferred requirements:

* Tier 1 Professional Consulting firm / Systems Integrator experience or IT PMO title for $1B+ size organization.
* MBA or masters degree preferred.
* PMP or SAP Activate certificate preferred
* Life Sciences SAP implementation experience, including computer system validation requirements.
* Experience with Agile tools (like Jira)
* Experience with projects that implemented or coordinated with Salesforce (Sales cloud and Service Cloud).

Danaher is a global science & technology innovator committed to helping our customers solve complex challenges and improve quality of life worldwide. Our world class brands are leaders in some of the most demanding and attractive industries, including life sciences, medical diagnostics, dental, environmental and applied solutions. Our globally diverse team of 71,000 associates is united by a common culture and operating system, the Danaher Business System, which serves as our competitive advantage. We generated $19.9B in revenue last year. We are ranked 162 on the Fortune 500 and our stock has outperformed the S&P 500 by more than 5,200% over 25 years.

At Danaher, you can build a career in a way no other company can duplicate. Our brands allow us to offer dynamic careers across multiple industries. We're innovative, fast-paced, results-oriented, and we win. We need talented people to keep winning. Here you'll learn how DBS is used to shape strategy, focus execution, align our people, and create value for customers and shareholders. Come join our winning team.

Danaher is committed to competitive compensation that typically has key components including base salary, variable annual incentive compensation based on personal and company performance, and long-term incentive.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The EEO is the Law poster is available at: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf.

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Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The EEO is the Law poster is available here.