Senior Director, Data Strategy

Innovation starts from the heart. Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader of patient-focused innovations for structural heart disease and critical care monitoring. With millions of patients served in over 100 countries, each team makes a meaningful contribution by improving patient outcomes and discovering lasting solutions for unmet patient needs. Our Senior Director of Data Strategy position is a unique career opportunity that could be your next step towards an exciting future.

The individual will lead the Corporate Data Strategy and Analytics team. The team provides strategic leadership and thought partnership on data-related topics across Edwards. The team additionally provides differentiated data analysis to support the company's commercial and strategic efforts with capabilities spanning national-level / disease-state to account- and physician-level insights.

Workplace Designation: Due to the collaborative nature of the role, this is an onsite position in Irvine, CA.

How you will make an impact:

• ​Identify and prioritize big data use cases (patient journey, population sizing and segmentation, select system-level analysis) in collaboration with Business Units (BUs), regions, functions
• Identify data-related strategic initiatives for further exploration, potentially leading cross-functional teams to lead these initiatives
• Identify required data sources and manage vendor relationships
• Lead team of data scientists and analysts to execute prioritized analyses and manage organization-wide disease-state model
• Effectively communicate findings to senior-level stakeholders

What you’ll need (Required):

• Bachelor's Degree in a scientific, technical, business or quantitative field
• Minimum 14 years of work experience or Master's Degree in a scientific, technical, business or quantitative field with minimum 12 years of work experience
• Substantial familiarity with big data analysis and leadership of big data projects

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Strong interpersonal relationship skills including influencing, consulting, and relationship management skills with the ability to drive achievement of shared and individual objectives
• Expert understanding and interpretation of complicated market dynamics with the ability to identify and quantify market potential, and build business case with both business and financial analysis skills
• Recognized as an external thought leader with broad-based expertise extending beyond immediate and related functions
• Ability to develop and integrate metrics into the projects and operations that clearly demonstrate value to the business
• Prior experience in corporate strategy, functional strategy, strategy consulting, and/or upstream marketing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience communicating at an executive level
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making
• Experience with healthcare data
• Experience working in a regulated industry
• Proven successful project management leadership skills and strict attention to detail
• Ability to navigate challenges in a fast paced and dynamic work environment
• Develop relationships and leverage them to influence change
• Ability to represent leadership on programs or org-specific strategic initiatives within multiple areas, interfacing with project managers, cross-functional teams and leadership team
• Ability to consult in program setting within multiple areas, deeper or more dedicated advisory role, interfacing with more senior management
• 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

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 $199,000 to $282,000 (highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience).   

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

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