Director, Global Congress and Events

Innovation starts from the heart. Heart valve disease 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.

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How youll make an impact:

The Director of Congress & Events is a senior leader responsible for the strategic direction executional excellence and continuous improvement of the organizations Congress and Events functions. This role leads two distinct highperforming teams and ensures seamless planning delivery and measurement of all congresses internal and special events.

• Set the vision and longterm strategy for Congress and Events ensuring alignment with brand downstream marketing and business functions.

• Identify opportunities to enhance congresses and events in driving brand presence engagement and organizational impact.

• Anticipate risks and proactively develop mitigation plans across complex multievent portfolios.

• Serve as the senior global brand steward at congresses ensuring consistent compelling and differentiated brand representation across all touchpoints including booths symposia presentations executive engagements and experiential activations.

• Lead mentor and inspire two distinct teams (Congress and Events) fostering collaboration accountability and high performance.

• Provide direct line management including goal setting performance management coaching and cross-training planning.

• Oversee endtoend operational planning and execution for all congresses and events ensuring consistency efficiency and scalability.

• Enhance operational processes workflows and tools to improve execution quality timelines and cost effectiveness.

• Establish best practices and standardized frameworks for planning vendor management compliance and execution.

• Ensure all congress and event experiences are cohesive differentiated and fully aligned with brand standards and strategic positioning.

• Champion a highquality attendee experience across all touchpoints from preevent engagement through onsite execution and postevent followup.

• Define success metrics and KPIs for congresses and events aligned to business objectives.

• Use insights and data to refine future strategies improve performance and inform senior leadership decisionmaking.

• Manage and oversee budgets across multiple congresses and events ensuring fiscal responsibility and optimized resource allocation.

• Partner with brand medical sales communications compliance and external agencies to deliver integrated and compliant programs.

• Ensure all congress and event activities comply with internal policies industry regulations and legal requirements.

• Perform other incidental duties as required to support departmental and organizational objectives.

What youll need (Required):

• Bachelors Degree 12 years of experience of work experience or

• Masters Degree or equivalent with 10 years of experience of related experience working in sales marketing or healthcare industry based on Edwards criteria

What else we look for (Preferred):

• 10 years of experience in congress events and/or experiential marketing with progressive leadership responsibility.

• Proven leadership in complex project and program management with the ability to drive multiple largescale initiatives concurrently while meeting timelines budget and quality standards.

• Proven experience leading multiteam or multifunction organizations.

• Strong operational financial and project management expertise.

• Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate across complex matrixed organizations.

• Exceptional leadership communication and decisionmaking skills.

• Advanced problemsolving analytical and criticalthinking capabilities applying sound judgment and discretion to make informed decisions in highvisibility and highimpact situations.

• Expert financial acumen within a marketing environment including forecasting budget planning and stewardship expense management purchase order compliance and thirdparty vendor oversight.

• Demonstrated peoplemanagement excellence with experience leading and developing highperforming teams through coaching feedback performance management and close partnership with HR on talent acquisition development and retention.

• Deep expertise in marketing content approval processes systems and governance with a strong working knowledge of regulatory requirements legal constraints and compliance standards.

• Strong executive presence and interpersonal effectiveness with the ability to interact professionally across all organizational levels and escalate issues proactively and appropriately.

• Ability to thrive in a fastpaced matrixed and evolving environment maintaining composure prioritization and momentum amid shifting priorities.

• Clear and compelling communicator able to articulate the vision strategy and value of the business unit and function to internal and external stakeholders.

• Highly collaborative relationship builder fostering peer crossfunctional and crossbusiness partnerships to share best practices and enhance team effectiveness.

• Demonstrated leadership of crossfunctional teams driving alignment and successful implementation of systems processes and operational solutions.

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 $159000 - $226000 (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.