Project Manager, IT

Edwards Lifesciences • Alton, IL

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About The Position

At Edwards Lifesciences, the company is dedicated to developing ground-breaking technologies with a genuine impact on patients’ lives, supported by an investment in cutting-edge information technology. This technology enables innovation and collaboration globally, optimizing efficiency and success for diverse teams. As part of the IT team, the Manager, IT Project Management will contribute to the patient-focused mission by developing and enhancing technological solutions. This role involves managing technology projects of medium to large size and complexity, requiring the ability to balance multiple tasks and projects simultaneously. Candidates should foster an environment that motivates, inspires, and respects others, possessing high organization, planning skills, attention to detail, strong communication skills, and the ability to work both independently and within a team. This position reports to the IT VP of Sales and Marketing Technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in related field
• A minimum of eight years of hands on experience managing projects of increasing complexity or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria

Nice To Haves

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Enterprise IT system implementation and process optimization experience
• Working knowledge of SaaS and vendor hosted systems and implementations
• Experience implementing sales (CRM) or marketing (Adobe) platforms
• Strong leadership skills and experience in facilitating change, including collaboration with management and executive stakeholders
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization

Responsibilities

• Own project delivery of sales and marketing technologies by leading project teams through the full project lifecycle (ie: Idea through Closure)
• Lead the definition of project goals, scope, and deliverables, resulting in a detailed, structured, and actionable project plan
• Facilitating meetings including preparing agendas, coordinating schedules & materials, documenting meeting minutes, following up on action items
• Proactive risk and issue management to ensure the expected project outcomes are achieved on time and within budget & scope
• Financial management including budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variances
• Communicate project statuses and updates to project team and business owners throughout the duration of the project; making certain all impacted stakeholders have an understanding of risks, issues, and activities related to the project.
• Work closely with senior IT and business leaders to ensure that delivery expectations are developed, managed and met.
• Act as point of contact for vendor contacts, which includes integration of project tasks and reviewing deliverables
• Ability to tailor information to the audience – from detail to broad summaries and technical to business focused
• Accountable for delivering projects on time, within budget and scope
• Ensure project goals are in line with IT strategy and business objectives
• Build a cohesive, high-performing project team to achieve results
• Oversee the sharing and prioritization of resources among projects

Benefits

• competitive salaries
• performance-based incentives
• a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees