SR. DIRECTOR COMPLIANCE, INVESTIGATIONS & MONITORING

At Edwards Lifesciences, we’re committed to operating with honesty, openness, and fairness. Compliance with the highest levels of integrity is vital to building and maintaining the many trusted relationships that sustain our reputation and credibility. Your dedication to operational excellence will ensure employee business practices meet Edwards’ high ethical standards and continue to enable us to transform patient lives around the world.
Position Summary: Lead the company’s global compliance investigations program; coordinate global monitoring and remediation activities across all regions (US, JAPAC, and EMEACLA); lead global investigations and monitoring team.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

• Ability to manage highly confidential information with discretion
• Proven successful leadership and influence on investigation and monitoring program spanning multiple regions/countries
• Expert understanding of compliance requirements with extensive and detailed knowledge of investigation procedures and monitoring best practices.
• Expert knowledge in conducting all phases of compliance investigations to include: collection, review and analysis of data; conducting interviews; documenting work completed, findings, and conclusions; and final report out of remediation and closure of the investigation
• Ability to solve complex compliance issues while exhibiting sound judgement and objectivity
• Strong root cause analysis, analytical, and problem-solving skills; effective at identifying viable solutions to mitigate risk
• Excellent interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills, with ability to convey information and questioning with tact and diplomacy
• Strong negotiating, influencing, active listening, collaboration and relationship building skills
• Proven successful project management capabilities
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
• Expert knowledge and understanding of company policies, procedures, guidelines, regulations and laws relevant to compliance investigations
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
• Ability to develop team, peer, cross functional and cross business relationships in order to influence change, implement remediation action plans, maximize best practice sharing and team effectiveness
• Ability to garner support, trust and solicit input from employees and key stakeholders at all levels
• Strong independent ethical decision making with a demonstrated commitment to integrity and compliance; lead by example in cultivating the culture of compliance
• Effectively coach, mentor and lead a diverse group on investigation and monitoring techniques and approaches
• Ability to effectively work within a fast-paced, dynamic, and constantly changing global work environment
• 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
• Travel (day and overnight by car, air, train, etc.) will vary. Percentage of time is determined by Management
  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 (CA), the base pay range for this position is $169,000 to $240,000 (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.
  E dwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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