Senior Manager, Organizational Effectiveness

Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. Our talented people are central to the future of Edwards Lifesciences, which is why our Human Resources teams help design, guide, and deliver inspiring experiences for our people. With a fundamental understanding of how to build a supportive community and organizational capability, you’ll deliver solutions to attract and retain talent. Your work will enable our teams to thrive as they help patients live healthier and more productive lives. 

Edwards is looking for a Senior Manager of Organizational Effectiveness (OE) to join our Organizational Effectiveness team. Our Organizational Effectiveness team is a tight knit internal consulting team responsible for running multiple strategic projects across different Business Units, regions, and functions at Edwards Lifesciences. This is an exciting opportunity to have a significant impact to a wide variety of functional areas within our multibillion-dollar global organization.

Our ideal candidate possesses a management consulting background with proven experiences in leading a cross-functional teams to deliver strategic projects that are high-profile and fast. This role will partner with Executive Leadership, HR Leaders, and business stakeholders to address the people and organization factors as Edwards scales for growth. This position will be on-site located at our Irvine headquarters.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Deliver key strategic talent and org imperatives and/or OE initiatives  

• Collaborate with key partners to the develop Edwards-wide org & talent strategies and imperatives to enable business objectives over the 7-year strategy horizon 

• Consult on enterprise wide, high impact business initiatives, with focus on the people and organizational impact to ensure ROI on significant initiatives 

• Partner with the business & HR leaders to build Talent & Org Strategies and capability plans to enable Edwards for rapid growth 

• Plan and direct initiatives including prioritizing and selecting appropriate projects with overall responsibility for meeting business objectives 

• Direct initiatives with overall responsibility of planning, staffing, managing priorities, recommending, and implementing changes to methods through several managers 

• Continue to build out and elevate Edwards Org Change Management capability, advocate “change management” knowledge and capabilities into the organization 

• Develop a robust talent development and succession planning in alignment with functional growth strategies across the global organizational effectiveness team 

• Direct responsibility for assessing and building organizational effectiveness capabilities within direct team, global HR organization, and across the EW organization 

What you’ll need (Required): 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science or other related technical areas and 10 years direct experience in Organizational Effectiveness (e.g., OE/Workforce Planning/ or organizational design strategy, including business case analysis and communications) or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria

• Or a Master’s degree in engineering, Computer Science or other related technical areas and 8 years of experience or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria

• Occasional travel, up to 30% annually, may be required to support business needs

What else we look for (Preferred):  

• Strong technical/science-based backgrounds that foster systems thinking, or management consulting experience with strong facilitation and problem-solving skills

• Expert Business understanding of organizational effectiveness 

• Excellent presentation and facilitation skill

• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including consultative and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives

• Proven success in managing two or more concurrent projects and initiatives

• Recognized as an expert in one area (e.g., Organizational Design, OCM, Workforce Planning) with specialized depth within the organization

• Expert knowledge and understanding of EW policies, procedures, and requirements as it relates to organizational effectiveness

• Excellent leadership and influencing skills

• Ability to manage internal and external confidential information with utmost discretion

• Strict attention to detail

• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization

• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment

• Ability to represent leadership on projects within a specific area interfacing with project managers and team

• Ability to consult in project setting within specific area

• Provide leadership to outsourcing partners on a task level

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, the base pay range for this position is $136,000 to $190,000 (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. 

Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.

COVID Vaccination Requirement

Edwards is committed to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them. As such, all patient-facing and in-hospital positions require COVID-19 vaccination. If hired into a covered role, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in locations where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination.