Sr. Manager, Congress Management

Sr. Manager, Congress Management

Innovation starts from the heart. Heart valve disease and critical care therapies impact millions of lives, spanning all ages and geographies. As communities globally address the opportunities and challenges of cardiovascular care, telling a compelling and authentic story is more crucial than ever. Beyond raising awareness, our Marketing teams build lasting, trusted relationships with medical professionals and industry stakeholders to ensure patients can receive the treatments they need.

This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional events professional with relevant experience to join a team that is boldly designing transcatheter mitral and tricuspid therapies from the ground up. TMTT is dedicated to solving the complex challenges of mitral and tricuspid disease to transform treatment and significantly improve patients’ lives.  This role will manage annual major congress and meeting strategy for TMTT portfolio and seek opportunities to expand Edwards' TMTT presence in the US as well as, manage annual congress strategy and seek opportunities to expand Edwards's presence.

How you will make an impact:

• Own the overall Edwards Lifesciences strategy and execution of all national medical congresses and meetings from development to implementation; provide support for global congresses as needed.

• Understand business objectives and sets clear objectives and metrics for each congress or meeting through collaborations with TMTT key stakeholders

• Manage all aspects of each congress or meeting to ensure business objectives are met

• Develop strategies for the effective management and execution of medical congresses, marketing events and projects intended to maximize company exposure and produce sales leads

• Develop relationships with associations to ensure maximum exposure and greatest benefit for Edwards sponsorship and participation

• Develops and maintains relationships with cross business units partners to ensure TMTT fits flawless within Edwards Lifesciences events

• Manage relationships with multiple vendors and lead vendor teams for congress execution and event management

• Negotiate higher volume and complex contracts

• Manage new booth development; audit booth asset inventory; remain current on new trends in exhibit design to contribute to large and small exhibits

• Plan and execute educational symposia and customer engagement events within national medical congresses; contract negotiations, logistics, F&B, AV

• Active budget forecasting, management and reconciliation; and fiscal responsibility

• Lead cross functional teams to successful results

What you will need (Required):

• Bachelor's Degree

• Minimum 8 years of experience working in corporate event planning and/or tradeshows, marketing or corporate administration

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Healthcare industry marketing

• Proven successful project management skills

• Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite

• Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives

• Extensive knowledge of own area within the organization while contributing to the development of new concepts, techniques, and standards

• Extensive understanding of related aspects of marketing concepts and principles

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of policies, procedures, and guidelines relevant to strategic event planning

• 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

• Represents leadership on sections of projects within a specific area working closely with cross-functional team, marketing peers and leaders and managing needs and messaging to upper management

• Maintain a strong relationship with the regional commercial teams (sales and clinical specialists, governmental affairs, health economics and training) to ensure effective and optimal integration of efforts & BU Partners

• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., 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.

• Travel: Up to 30% travel domestically.

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