Edwards Lifesciences Corp

Senior Manager, Program Management, PASCAL

Edwards Lifesciences Corp$139K — $196K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 10 years of progressive experience in project management or equivalent work experience
  • Master’s Degree or equivalent work experience preferred
  • Expertise in project and program management methodologies
  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders
  • Working knowledge of structural heart therapies or cardiovascular medical devices

Responsibilities

  • Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex cross-functional programs
  • Define project objectives, scope, and resource requirements with stakeholders
  • Provide leadership and oversight to cross-functional teams
  • Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities to drive timely resolutions
  • Communicate program status and business benefits to senior leadership

Benefits

  • Wide variety of benefits programs for employees and their families
  • Performance-based incentives
  • Competitive salaries
  • Focus on employee health and safety
  • Commitment to innovation in patient care
Full Job Description
Patients with mitral and tricuspid heart valve disease often have complex conditions with limited treatment options. Our Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies (TMTT) business unit is boldly pursuing an innovative portfolio of technologies to address a patient's unmet clinical needs. It's our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey.

Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. As the Senior Manager Program Management, you'll be a trusted thought leader as you ensure our projects are completed efficiently and effectively. Your strategic mindset and fresh perspectives will be an essential part of how we bring innovative solutions for patients.

How you will make an impact:
  • Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world by helping bring new innovations and clinical evidence to our world-class TEER Therapy. As the Senior Manager, PASCAL Program Management, you will lead a portfolio of high-impact, cross-functional programs and strategic initiatives that advance patient care, drive business results, and support long-term organizational objectives.
  • Leveraging strong program management expertise, business acumen, and stakeholder leadership, you will define and shape project scope, align resources, establish execution plans, secure leadership support, and drive successful delivery across functions, platforms, and geographies. This role requires a strategic mindset, the ability to influence without authority, and a passion for transforming complex challenges into actionable results.
  • Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex cross-functional programs and strategic initiatives from concept through implementation, ensuring alignment with business priorities and maximizing patient and organizational impact.
  • Partner with functional leaders and stakeholders to define project objectives, scope, success metrics, resource requirements, and governance structures.
  • Provide leadership, direction, and oversight to cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, and execution excellence.
  • Proactively identify risks, dependencies, opportunities, and alternative scenarios, driving timely decisions and issue resolution.
  • Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, budgets, and performance metrics to ensure successful program execution.
  • Communicate program status, milestones, business benefits, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership through clear and effective executive-level reporting.

What you will need (required):
  • Bachelor's degree with 10 years of progressive experience leading projects and programs of increasing complexity or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria Preferred
  • Master’s Degree or equivalent or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria Preferred


What else we look for (preferred):
  • Demonstrated expertise in project and program management methodologies, tools, and best practices
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at multiple organizational levels.
  • Strong communication, facilitation, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience leading projects within new product development, clinical research, or medical device environments.
  • MBA or demonstrated record of strong business and strategic acumen.
  • PMP or equivalent project management certification.
  • Experience leading global, matrixed teams across multiple functions and regions.
  • Knowledge of structural heart therapies or cardiovascular medical devices.
  • Excellent problem-solving, agility, leadership through change, 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
  • Ability to develop and integrate metrics into the projects and operations that clearly demonstrate the value to the business
  • Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
  • Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment
  • Share information and provides basic problem solving solutions; gains cooperation of others, conducts presentations of technical information concerning specific projects or schedules
  • Develop peer, cross functional and cross business relationships to maximize best practice sharing and team effectiveness.
  • Adhere to all EHS rules and requirements and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control


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 $139,000 to $196,000 (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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