Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Supply Chain team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world.
How you'll make an impact:
• Direct team members and engineering activities with overall responsibility of developing systems, staffing, planning, budgeting, managing expense priorities, performance management, and working through managers to achieve results.
• Develop SMEs to ensure engineering knowledge continuity. Drive culture, engage staff morale, and ensure employees' safety
• Develop robust talent development and succession planning in alignment with functional growth strategies across own organization
• Set and lead the implementation of strategic processes that align with key business strategies
• Lead cross-functional groups to develop and provide product and process design recommendations that integrate into multiple product lines and/or systems with significant complexity.
• Responsible for proactively assessing and implementing strategies to ensure business continuity (e.g., material obsolescence, capacity limitation, master validation plans). Lead in identifying risk, developing complex mitigation strategies, defining alternative solutions, resolving issues, etc. in collaboration with cross functional groups
• Collaborate with network leadership to develop operational strategy. Partner with cross-functional groups/resources to achieve tactical execution of business objectives
• Plan and direct strategic program activities (e.g., VIP/value engineering, product engineering, process engineering, advanced engineering, core competencies) in collaboration with cross functional teams to meet business objectives and compliance standards (e.g., CAPA, audits, master validation plans), while employing technical design skills to re-design/design new products and/or processes. This includes prioritizing and selecting appropriate projects and initiatives while using engineering methods (e.g., SIX Sigma and LEAN methods).
• Collaborate and align with network and COE teams in driving standardized programs leveraging best in class practices
• Lead the integration of new products and collaborate with NPI and R&D teams on product and process transfers
• Drive a value stream mindset and culture of continuous improvement based on lean and Six Sigma principles and EW Production System (EPS)
• Other incidental duties
What you'll need (Required): Education and experience requirements
• Bachelor's Degree in in related field related experience in engineering and skill levels exceeding the requirements of the Senior Manager
• Demonstrated track record in management of technical and/or engineering disciplines
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in a similar leadership role.
• Work experience in a fast moving, dynamic, changing environment. Work effectively on multiple projects in parallel.
What else we look for (Preferred): Relevant skills
• Experience working in a regulated industry
• Proven successful project management leadership skills
• Proficient in both Microsoft Office Suite and related systems
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making
• Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
• Expert understanding of engineering procedures while looking beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and resolve complex problems
• Expert understanding of related aspects of engineering processes and/or systems
• Knowledge of financial acumen as it relates to the business as well as engineering
• Demonstrated ability to direct teams and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire/fire authority and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations
• Ability to develop and integrate metrics into the projects and operations that clearly demonstrate the value of engineering to the business
• Serve as core partner to senior leaders in Business Units, Functional Groups, Regions and IT
• 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 work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment
• Interacts with senior management, and others concerning matters of significance to the company
• Conduct business and technical briefings for senior and top management and for external representatives
• Regularly interacts with executives and/or major customers; interactions frequently involve special skills, such as negotiating with customers or management or attempting to influence senior level leaders regarding matters of significance to the organization
• Dedicated to quality client service and pro-active and responsive to client needs.
• Develop peer, cross functional and cross business relationships to maximize best practice sharing and team effectiveness.
• Provide leadership and direction to large cross-functional teams to successfully implement global enterprise systems and related solutions
• Develop relationships and leverage them to influence change
• Support and solicit input from team members at all levels within the organization
• 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
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What We Do
Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW), is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. We thrive on discovery and expanding the boundaries of medical technology, serving patients in 100+ countries, with the help of our employees in areas including Clinical Affairs, Quality Engineering, Research & Development, Regulatory Affairs, Sales & Marketing, corporate functions and more.
Our roots date back to 1958 when Miles Lowell Edwards, a retired engineer with a background in hydraulics and fuel pump operations, set out to build the first artificial heart. Edwards believed the heart could be mechanized and was encouraged by Dr. Albert Starr to focus on developing an artificial heart valve. After just two years, the first Starr-Edwards mitral valve was developed and successfully placed in a patient. This innovation spawned Edwards Laboratories. Miles’ fascination with healing the heart and helping patients with heart disease stemmed from his own experience with rheumatic fever as a teenager and continues to fuel our patient-first culture today.
Today, we are as passionate about providing innovative solutions for people fighting cardiovascular disease as we have ever been. It's our Credo. It takes integrity, collaboration, innovation, and focus. We are leaders in the design and manufacture of tissue replacement heart valves and repair products as well as advanced hemodynamic monitoring. We partner with physicians to innovate products designed to help patients live longer, healthier, and more productive lives.
Our work is both rewarding and a privilege. The importance of what we do defines our approach. We work together to create an environment where ideas can flourish and we provide our people with the resources, expertise and support to bring those ideas to life.
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