Director, Corporate Development

Edwards Lifesciences • Alton, IL

3d • $174,000 - $246,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Edwards Lifesciences is seeking a Director of Corporate Development to support strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, intellectual property and technology licenses, and partnerships. The role supports the company’s long-term growth strategy by assessing, evaluating, structuring, negotiating, and completing potential transactions.

The position leads larger corporate development projects and provides direction to project teams, while identifying process improvements and opportunities for course correction. Work includes developing strategic insights, modeling market opportunities and technology investments, preparing materials for executive management and the Board of Directors, coordinating due diligence and definitive agreement schedules, analyzing deal structures, and developing value-creation and integration plans with business, functional, and regional stakeholders. This is an on-site role based in Irvine, California.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field and at least 12 years of related experience; alternatively, a master’s degree or equivalent in a related field and at least 10 years of related experience.
• Experience in financial analysis, strategy, strategic marketing, and international or global markets.
• Demonstrated successful track record negotiating and overseeing R&D-focused business development projects in the healthcare industry.
• Successful project management leadership skills.
• Ability to build high-trust relationships with external stakeholders, including venture capital firms, private equity firms, entrepreneurs, and other sources of innovation.
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical, and critical-thinking skills, including discretion and judgment in decision-making.
• Negotiation and interpersonal skills to achieve objectives while working with all organizational levels, including CEOs and senior executives.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed, dynamic, and constantly changing environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a large manufacturing company.
• Certification in a related discipline.
• Experience working in a regulated industry.
• Medical device or healthcare experience and deep clinical or technical knowledge of the structural heart disease market.
• Experience in capital markets.

Responsibilities

• Develop and plan larger corporate development projects and activities, with accountability for completing project deliverables.
• Provide direction and guidance to project teams executing larger corporate development projects, initiatives, and programs.
• Identify and evaluate complex corporate development process improvements and opportunities for course correction or alignment.
• Synthesize information from multiple sources to develop insights and recommendations on business development strategies and opportunities.
• Build financial models to assess market opportunities and potential technology investments for strategic go/no-go decisions.
• Prepare monthly briefing materials for executive management and the Board of Directors.
• Contribute to the Edwards Corporate Development pipeline.
• Coordinate due diligence, including the collection and dissemination of diligence materials.
• Prepare and analyze alternative deal-structuring options.
• Coordinate preparation of definitive agreement schedules.
• Identify value creation and synergies, and develop integration roadmaps with business unit, functional, and regional stakeholders.
• Support assessment, evaluation, structuring, negotiation, and completion of strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, IP/technology licenses, and partnerships.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• Performance-based incentives.
• A wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of employees and their families.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director