Senior Manager, Project Management

Edwards Lifesciences • Irvine, CA

3d • $139,000 - $196,000

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Program Management role is within the Transcatheter Heart Valve (THV) Commercial Project Management Office (PMO). The role plans, executes, and manages projects from early concept through commercialization, ensuring project success. It leads complex, cross-functional work by aligning stakeholders, proactively managing risks and dependencies, facilitating decision-making, and maintaining transparency about progress and outcomes across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria.
• 10 years of hands-on experience managing projects and/or programs of increasing complexity, or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria.
• Demonstrated experience in project management methodology.
• Proven expertise using MS Office Suite and related project management systems.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and interpersonal relationship skills, including negotiating and relationship management skills and the ability to drive achievement of objectives.
• Expertise in own area within the organization.
• Expert understanding and knowledge of principles, theories, and concepts relevant to managing multiple projects within an overall program.
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.
• Excellent understanding of and work experience with project budgets and financial management.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to influence change.
• Experience facilitating change, including collaboration with management and executive stakeholders.
• Experience within a regulated environment.
• Strict attention to detail.
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels.
• Ability to work and excel in a fast-paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment.
• Adhere to company rules and requirements, including pandemic protocols and Environmental Health & Safety rules, and take adequate control measures to prevent injuries and pollution and protect the environment within the employee's span of influence or control.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or equivalent, or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Green Belt or Black Belt.
• Scrum Master certification.
• Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification.

Responsibilities

• Develop a high-level program milestone plan and manage program changes in accordance with the change management plan to control scope, quality, schedule, cost, and contracts.
• Manage large-scale to enterprise-wide projects.
• Facilitate the creation and approval of program business cases and coordinate resource sharing and prioritization among projects.
• Execute program plans covering areas such as quality, risk, communication, and staffing, and communicate program status and data to maintain accurate, current information for stakeholders.
• Obtain program approval and actively manage program benefits and issues with key stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain program stakeholder relationships, expectations, and communications, both internally and externally.
• Own one or more PMO continuous improvement activities.
• Identify and evaluate process improvement and course-correction or course-alignment opportunities.
• Manage project closure activities, gather lessons learned, and drive changes to future work for continuous improvement.
• Serve as a project and program management subject matter expert, guide and mentor project managers, and source and direct contract resources tied to projects within the program.
• Develop expertise in a business process, professional discipline, market, or product.
• Perform other incidental duties.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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