Sr Mgr, Human Resources

Making 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

The Sr Manager, HR Business Leader acts as a strategic advisor to leaders on people and organizational issues, and acts as a catalyst in delivering HR solutions to attract, develop, and retain talent in support of the specific needs of the Edwards Transcatheter Heart Valve (THV) Regulatory and Finance, as well as Legal and Corporate Compliance organizations.  

How you will make an impact:

• Act as a strategic thought partner for THV Regulatory and Finance leaders, as well Legal and Corporate compliance leaders, to understand business objectives and provide input into creating talent and organizational priorities to achieve current and future business objectives.
• Act as leader to deliver on talent and organizational initiatives to ensure the right talent is in place at the right time to meet short- and long-term business needs.
• Participate and conduct organizational reviews, in collaboration with the HR COE team, to ensure effectiveness of a team’s structure, roles, and work to drive performance and productivity.
• Advise, influence and partner with leaders to ensure team and individual effectiveness in driving results; provide coaching as appropriate.  Conduct organizational health, competency and skill assessments and action planning to build organizational capabilities for an engaged and high-performing organization.
• Conduct talent reviews to assess leadership pipelines, succession potential, and talent risks for current and future talent capabilities. Support development planning towards readiness for new roles.
• Lead or partner with Edwards COE's to deliver human resource programs for assigned business groups to ensure the organization's current and future talent requirements are met.
• Proactively analyze workforce trends and metrics that drive talent planning, decision-support, and greater employee engagement.
• Act as a change leader to accelerate adoption of changes within assigned organization. 
• Participate in the interview/selection of talent in assigned client groups and perform compensation analysis to drive competitive offers to attract and retain talent.

What you’ll need (Required)

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Ten years of human resources experience
• Master's Degree or equivalent plus eight years of human resources experience

What else we look for (Preferred)

• Strong business, financial, and industry acumen
• Experience providing feedback and coaching to managers
• Ability to establish relationships and influence across multiple levels and functions

• Adept at functioning effectively within a team environment, and presents ideas and opinions in a respectful and collegial manner

• Employ a mix of operational and strategic thinking during decision-making
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships across the organization
• Demonstrate exceptional customer service
• Ability to support decision making with insights from workforce data and effective storytelling
• Ability to plan, organize, and execute priorities with successful outcomes
• Ability to exercise sound judgment with minimal direction/guidance but also knows when to escalate issues to HR leaders/executives
• High degree of adaptability to change; champions the importance of change in the workplace
• Operate with a global mindset
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Experience with an ERP system (Workday preferred)

• Demonstrated Proficiency with Microsoft tools and applications required
• General knowledge of the life sciences industry, and deep understanding of the business
• Strong HR acumen and understanding of policies

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 $106,000 to $151,000 (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 prote