Edwards Lifesciences Corp

Senior Director, Global Clinical Safety

Edwards Lifesciences Corp$191K — $271K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field required; experience in clinical trial safety preferred.
  • 10-15 years in clinical research or related industry experience.
  • Advanced degree (MD, PharmD, PhD, MS) is preferred.
  • Strong people management experience required.
  • Proven project management leadership skills essential.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of clinical and medical safety subject matter experts.
  • Direct overall clinical and medical safety activities; develop systems and manage budgets.
  • Mitigate and eliminate risks; negotiate complex clinical safety strategies internally and externally.
  • Plan and prioritize strategic activities, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
  • Analyze and present recommendations to guide executive leadership; deliver executive communications.

Benefits

  • Competitive salaries and performance-based incentives.
  • Wide variety of benefits programs addressing diverse employee needs.
  • Onsite presence required at corporate headquarters in Irvine, CA.
Full Job Description
The Senior Director, Global Clinical Safety - THV will lead global clinical safety strategy and a team of subject matter experts to ensure patient safety, regulatory compliance, and successful clinical program execution. Partner cross-functionally to identify and mitigate risks, guide decision-making at the executive level, and drive high-impact safety initiatives across the business.

This role requires onsite presence at our corporate headquarters in Irvine, CA.

You will make an impact by:
  • Manage a team of clinical and medical safety SMEs and related activities within an assigned business unit
  • Direct clinical and medical safety activities with overall responsibility of developing systems, planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, recommending and implementing changes to methods through several managers. Develop a robust talent development and succession planning in alignment with functional growth strategies across the global clinical safety organization
  • Mitigate/eliminate risk, direct and communicate highly complex clinical safety strategies which includes negotiations with internal and external parties
  • Plan and direct strategic activities including prioritizing and selecting appropriate projects with overall responsibility for meeting business objectives. Lead in identifying risk, developing complex mitigation strategies, best practices, alternative solutions, resolving issues, etc. in collaboration with cross functional and/or matrix teams
  • Analyze, formulate and present recommendations to advise and guide executive level leadership; develop and deliver executive level communication


What you'll need (Required):
  • Bachelor's Degree in related field experience in clinical trial safety required or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria
  • 10-15 years of related experience in clinical research or industry


What else we look for (Preferred):
  • Advanced degree required (MD, PharmD, PhD, MS) or equivalent scientific discipline
  • Experience working in a regulated industry or clinical trial safety
  • Demonstrated track record in people management
  • Certification in related field or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria
  • Proven successful project management leadership skills
  • Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives


Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California (CA), the base pay range for this position is $191,000 to $271,000 (highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience). Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.

About Edwards Lifesciences Corp

Edwards Lifesciences is an American medical technology company headquartered in Irvine, California, specializing in artificial heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. It developed the SAPIEN transcatheter aortic heart valve made of cow tissue within a balloon-expandable, cobalt-chromium frame, deployed via catheter. The company has manufacturing facilities at the Irvine headquarters, as well as in Draper, Utah; Costa Rica; the Dominican Republic; Puerto Rico; and Singapore; and is building a new facility due to be completed in 2021 in Limerick, Ireland.
Learn more about Edwards Lifesciences Corp
Size
15,700 employees
Market Cap
$45.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$823.4 million
Founded
1958
5 Year Trend
+12%
Revenue
$4.3 billion
NASDAQ

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