Initiates, plans, executes, controls and manages all aspects of project(s) to ensure ultimate project success.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Develop a high-level milestone plan for the program and manages program change 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 business cases within the program, and coordinate the sharing and prioritization of resources among projects
- Execute program plans (quality, risk, communication, staffing, etc.) and communicate program status and data in order to maintain accurate and current program information for the use of stakeholders
- Obtain approval for the program and actively manages program benefits and issues in partnership with IT business partner
- Establish and maintain program stakeholder relationships, expectations, and communications, both internal and external to the organization
- Own one or more Project Management Office (PMO) continuous improvement activities
- Identify and evaluate process improvement and/or course correction/course alignment opportunities
- Manage project closure activities, including gathering lessons learned and driving changes to future for continuous improvement
- Other incidental duties
**Education and Experience**:
Bachelor's Degree in related field, 10 years of experience of hands-on managing projects and/or programs of increasing complexity Required.
Master's Degree or equivalent Preferred
**Additional Skills**:
- Demonstrated experience in Project Management methodology required
- Proven expertise in usage of MS Office Suite and related project management systems
- Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
- Recognized as an expert 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 and work experience with project budgets and financial management
- Strong leadership skills and ability to influence change
- Experience in 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 within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment
- Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) 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
About Edwards Lifesciences
Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world's leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America and Asia and currently employs over 18,500 individuals worldwide.
For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it's our life's work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.
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