Innovation starts from the heart. At Edwards Lifesciences, we’re dedicated to developing ground-breaking technologies with a genuine impact on patients’ lives. At the core of this commitment is our investment in cutting-edge information technology. This supports our innovation and collaboration on a global scale, enabling our diverse teams to optimize both efficiency and success. As part of our IT team, your expertise and commitment will help facilitate our patient-focused mission by developing and enhancing technological solutions.
How you’ll make an impact:
- Lead the execution of tasks as defined in the project management plan in order to achieve the project goals, and actively manages project risk
- Determine and discern detailed requirements on larger scale projects to establish the project deliverables, and manage changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs to keep the project management plan updated and reflective of authorized project changes
- Facilitate the creation and approval of business cases, and utilizes historical data and expert judgment in order to understand project limitations
- Actively lead one or more Project Management Office (PMO) continuous improvement activities
- Assess project performance to monitor the progress of the project, identify and quantify variances, perform required corrective actions and communicate to all stakeholders
- Establish and maintain team members and project stakeholder relationships, expectations, and communications, both internal and external.
- Manage project closure activities, including gathering lessons learned and driving changes to future for continuous improvement
- Serve as a project management subject matter expert, including guiding and mentoring other project managers; demonstrate expertise in a business process, professional discipline, market, or product
- Other incidental duties
What you'll need (Required):
- Bachelor's Degree in in related field
- Related experience in project/program and skill levels
- Hands on experience managing large to midsize projects and/or programs of increasing complexity
What else we look for (Preferred):
- Demonstrated experience in Project Management methodology
- Eight years of hands-on experience managing projects of increasing complexity
- Experience in presentation to executive leadership
- Understanding of agile project management
- Cloud infrastructure, security information or general software development or technology development project management
- Proven expertise in usage of MS Office Suite and related project management systems
- Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
- Extensive understanding and knowledge of principles, theories, and concepts relevant to managing large scale project plans
- Excellent understanding and work experience with project budgets and financial management
- Strong leadership skills and ability to influence change
- Experience in facilitating change, including collaboration with management and executive stakeholders
- Experience within a regulated environment
- Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels
- Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment