Commercial Training & Competency Program Manager (d/f/m)

Role Summary

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Leica Microsystems, 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.

Shape the Future with Us!

At Leica Microsystems, we have been shaping the future for over 175 years with groundbreaking optical and digital solutions. With a culture rooted in customer focus, innovation, and teamwork, we lead the market in microscopy, imaging, and analysis, unveiling the invisible and empowering our customers to build a better, healthier world.

Joining Leica Microsystems means contributing to scientific discoveries and supporting surgeons in making critical decisions. Our advanced microscopes and AI-based image analysis solutions enable users to gain profound insights into development and engineering challenges. Here, you will work on meaningful projects alongside passionate colleagues, driving progress and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

The Commercial Training & Competency Program Manager is responsible for designing, deploying, and governing a global and consistent commercial capability development framework across all Regions. This role partners closely with Regional Commercial Leaders, Business Units (BUs), and DBS leaders to build a robust and scalable learning ecosystem, strengthen sales competencies, and ensure commercial teams perform at their highest potential.

This role requires an experienced commercial leader with strong understanding of sales cycles and process in a B2B environment, customer engagement, and commercial excellence practices. The role is both strategic and hands-on, driving global alignment while enabling local execution.

This position reports to the Director Global Commercial Operations and will be part of the Global Commercial Operations team.

The position will be fully remote in France.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to

Develop and lead the global commercial training strategy by establishing a consistent, scalable learning framework, onboarding programs, and blended learning solutions across all regions.

Build and govern a global sales competency framework that defines required capabilities, assesses proficiency, identifies gaps, and drives development plans for all commercial roles.

P artner with Regional Commercial Leaders, Business Units, and DBS teams to align training priorities, ensure content relevance, and drive accountability for capability development.

Establish robust training governance and operational excellence through standardized processes, content management, reporting, compliance oversight, learning platforms, and Train-the-Trainer networks.

Measure impact and continuously improve commercial capabilities by tracking training effectiveness, monitoring competency progress, analyzing performance gaps, and providing actionable insights to leadership.

• The essential requirements of the job include
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business, Training & Development, Commercial Management, or comparable experience
• 7+ years in Sales, Commercial Excellence, Sales Enablement, or Training roles
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage global programs and projects
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and influencing skills
• Strong command of MS Office, and in particular MS Excel and large language model (LLM) based answer engines such as M365 Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude
• Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements
• Ability to travel 20% of time
• It would be a plus if you also possess experience in:
• Working knowledge with Learning Management Systems (Cornerstone, Workday Learning)

Leica Microsystems, a Danaher operating company, 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 Danaher Benefits Info.

At Leica Microsystems 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. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Leica Microsystems can provide.

Bring more life to your ambitions.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real impact in the fields of life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Leica Microsystems, one of more than 15 Danaher operating companies, our work helps save lives. We are united by the same ambition: to innovate to generate a concrete impact.

You will thrive in an inclusive culture where your personality and unique perspective matter. By leveraging Danaher's continuous improvement system, you will help transform ideas into results and innovate at the pace of life.

Shape the future with us!

For more than 175 years, Leica Microsystems has been shaping the future with revolutionary optical and digital solutions. Built on a customer-focused culture, innovation and teamwork, we are leaders in microscopy, imaging and analysis, revealing the invisible and enabling our customers to build a better, healthier world.

Joining Leica Microsystems means contributing to scientific discoveries and supporting surgeons in their critical decisions. Our advanced microscopes and AI-powered image analysis solutions enable users to gain in-depth insights into development and engineering challenges. You will work on meaningful projects alongside passionate colleagues, promoting progress and pushing the limits of what is possible.

Discover the Danaher Business System, which makes it all possible.

The Training and Sales Skills Development Program Manager is responsible for designing, deploying and piloting a global, harmonized sales skills development framework across all regions. This role works closely with regional sales leaders, Business Units (BUs) and DBS leaders to create a robust and scalable learning ecosystem, strengthen sales skills and ensure optimal team performance.

This role requires an experienced sales leader with a solid understanding of sales cycles and processes in a B2B environment, customer engagement and sales excellence practices. This is both a strategic and operational role, driving global alignment while enabling effective local execution.

This position reports to the Director Global Commercial Operations and is part of the Global Commercial Operations team. The position is fully teleworking in France.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to

Develop and drive the global sales training strategy by implementing a consistent and scalable learning framework, onboarding programs and blended learning solutions across all regions.

Build and govern a global business skills framework defining required skills, assessing proficiency levels, identifying skills gaps and implementing development plans across business functions.

Collaborate with regional sales managers, Business Units and DBS teams to align training priorities, ensure content relevance and strengthen accountability for skills development.

Establish solid training governance and operational excellence through standardized processes, content management, reporting, compliance monitoring, learning platforms and trainer networks (“Train-the-Trainer”).

Measure impact and continuously improve sales skills by tracking training effectiveness, assessing skills progression, analyzing performance gaps, and providing actionable recommendations to management.

The essential requirements for this position are as follows

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Commerce, Training & Development, Commercial Management or equivalent experience.

More than 7 years of experience in Sales, Commercial Excellence, Sales Enablement or Training.

Demonstrated experience in designing and managing programs and projects on a global scale.

Excellent facilitation, communication and influencing skills.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, as well as conversational tools based on large language models (LLM) such as M365 Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude.

Requirements

• Travel, driver's license and physical environment requirements
• Travel representing approximately 20% of working time.

Previous experience in the following areas would be an asset:

• Knowledge of learning management systems (LMS) such as Cornerstone or Workday Learning.
• Leica Microsystems, a Danaher Group company, offers a wide range of competitive and comprehensive benefits programs that contribute to the quality of life of its employees. Whether it is health coverage or paid leave, these programs contribute to the balance between professional and personal life.
• At Leica Microsystems, we believe in creating a more sustainable and flexible organization. We recognize the benefits of flexible and remote work arrangements for eligible positions and are committed to providing rewarding careers regardless of work arrangement.
• This position is eligible for teleworking from home, subject to applicable conditions. Additional information will be provided during the recruitment process.
• Discover the flexibility and exciting challenges of a career at Leica Microsystems.
• 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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