Chief Medical Officer, Danaher Diagnostics China

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Are you ready to shape the future of diagnostics in one of the world's most dynamic healthcare markets?

Within Danaher Diagnostics, one of Danaher's three global segments, our work saves lives - and we are united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You will thrive in a culture where your perspective matters and where ideas turn into action through the power of the Danaher Business System (DBS).

The Chief Medical Officer, Danaher Diagnostics China is the senior medical and scientific leader for Danaher Diagnostics across China. This enterprise leadership role will define and execute an integrated Medical and Scientific Affairs strategy across Danaher Diagnostics businesses in China, connecting local healthcare needs, clinical evidence, disease-area priorities, and global innovation.

This leader will build a differentiated medical platform that advances medical value, scientific credibility, evidence generation, and responsible adoption of our innovative diagnostic solutions. The CMO will serve as a trusted advisor to China Diagnostics leadership and as a credible scientific representative to clinicians, laboratory leaders, academic institutions, professional societies, hospital systems, and other healthcare stakeholders.

The role will lead the evolution of Medical and Scientific Affairs from an activity-based support function into a strategic medical and disease leadership engine for China - while preserving medical independence, scientific rigor, and the highest standards of integrity.

The Chief Medical Officer, Danaher Diagnostics China reports to the Danaher China Chief Science and Technology Officer with a dotted-line relationship to the global Chief Medical Officer, Danaher Diagnostics. The role partners closely with China leadership, Diagnostics Operating Companies (OpCos), and global Medical and Scientific Affairs, Clinical, R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Market Access, Commercial, and Compliance teams.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead China Medical and Scientific Affairs Strategy: Define, execute, and integrate the China disease leadership strategy in alignment with China business priorities, Diagnostics Platform medical direction, OpCo strategies, and local healthcare needs.
• Serve as the Enterprise Medical Leader for Diagnostics China: Represent a unified medical voice across Danaher Diagnostics businesses in China and ensure that medical perspectives inform portfolio strategy, innovation priorities, launch planning, lifecycle management, and long-range planning.
• Advance Evidence Generation and Clinical Adoption: Build an integrated China evidence roadmap across priority disease areas; oversee locally relevant clinical studies, investigator-initiated research, real-world evidence, health economics evidence, and publication planning that support clinical value and responsible adoption.
• Shape Disease-Area Strategy and Innovation: Translate unmet clinical needs, care pathways, scientific insights, and local evidence requirements into differentiated medical strategies and actionable input for product, solution, and innovation roadmaps.
• Build a cross-platform disease roadmap: Develop a deep understanding of Diagnostics and actively engage with the Life Sciences and Biotechnology platforms to build a comprehensive disease roadmap. Leverage capabilities across the other two platforms to advance the China Medical and Scientific Affairs strategy.
• Provide External Scientific Leadership: Build trusted, compliant partnerships with leading clinicians, laboratory experts, academic institutions, professional societies, hospital systems, and disease-area experts, strengthening Danaher Diagnostics' scientific credibility in China.
• Lead Medical Insights and Cross-Functional Impact: Establish a systematic medical insight process and convert field, study, customer, and expert insights into evidence-based recommendations for portfolio, launch, market access, and innovation decisions.
• Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Corporate S&T, Clinical Affairs, Marketing and Strategy to align priorities, integrate insights and enable coordinated execution across key functions.
• Build and Develop the China Medical Organization: Design and lead a high-performing Medical and Scientific Affairs organization, strengthening capabilities in disease-area strategy, field medical excellence, evidence generation, scientific communication, stakeholder engagement, and talent development.
• Own Medical Governance and Compliance: Establish clear governance, decision rights, and operating mechanisms; ensure medical activities and external scientific engagement are evidence-based, medically independent, and compliant with applicable laws, regulations, company policies, and Good Medical Practice.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Education: MD or equivalent medical qualification. Exceptional PhD candidates with substantial diagnostics leadership, clinical credibility, and direct accountability for Medical Affairs may also be considered.
• Experience: 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in Medical Affairs, clinical development, diagnostics, life sciences, or a related healthcare field, including significant leadership responsibility in China.
• China Healthcare Expertise: Deep understanding of the China healthcare and diagnostics environment, including hospital decision-making, clinical pathways, evidence expectations, regulatory requirements, healthcare policy, and market dynamics.
• Strategic Medical Leadership: Demonstrated success developing and executing medical strategies that connect scientific evidence, clinical impact, innovation, and business priorities while maintaining appropriate medical-commercial boundaries.
• Scientific and External Credibility: Strong record of credible engagement with clinicians, laboratory leaders, academic experts, professional societies, hospital systems, and other healthcare stakeholders.
• Enterprise and People Leadership: Proven ability to build and lead high-performing medical teams and to influence effectively across OpCos, functions, and global-regional-local interfaces in a complex matrix.
• Governance and Execution: Deep understanding of medical governance, GxP principles, evidence standards, ethical scientific engagement, and the operationalization of complex medical programs with measurable outcomes.
• Communication: Excellent executive communication and influencing skills in Mandarin Chinese and English.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in in-vitro diagnostics, molecular diagnostics, pathology, laboratory medicine, oncology, infectious disease, critical care, cardiometabolic disease, or precision medicine.
• Experience building or transforming a Medical and Scientific Affairs function and establishing scalable field medical and evidence-generation capabilities.
• Strong track record in clinical studies, real-world evidence, health economics and outcomes research, publications, and guideline or expert-consensus development.
• Experience representing multiple operating companies or business units within a platform or shared-leadership model.
• Understanding of AI-enabled diagnostics, multimodal biomarkers, digital health, and emerging models of evidence generation and scientific engagement.

Work Location and Benefits:

This position is based in China and requires regular engagement with stakeholders across China, as well as travel to regional and global Danaher locations as business needs require.

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that supports well-being, professional growth, and long-term career development. Specific compensation and benefits will be determined in accordance with local requirements and company policy.

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.

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