Senior Manager, Project Management IT

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, critical care, and surgical monitoring. For more than 50 years, we have established a remarkable track record around that innovation: Work that enables clinicians worldwide to enhance and save lives. Edwards is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Management focused on the Scrum Master Role. As a part of the Global IT Organization, you will lead up to 4 scrum teams delivering value to our internal customers. As the Scrum Team lead, you will work with the Scrum team as its servant leader by ensuring impediments are addressed and mitigated promptly.

You should have success in leading teams in all Scrum ceremonies and be able to coach the Team to improve continuously. You should be committed to the scrum values and practices and remain flexible and open to opportunities for the Team to enhance their workflow.

You will work closely with the Product Owners, Business Partners, Internal IT Delivery Leads, and other Stakeholders across multiple time zones to ensure the teams have support, clarity, and opportunities to be successful.

Innovation starts from the heart. At Edwards Lifesciences, we are dedicated to developing ground-breaking technologies with a genuine impact on patients’ lives. At the core of this commitment is our investment in innovative information technology. This supports our innovation and collaboration on a global scale, enabling our diverse teams to optimize both efficiency and success. As part of our IT team, your expertise and commitment will help facilitate our patient-focused mission by developing and enhancing technological solutions.

**You will make an impact by**:
Leads change with a passion for supporting teams to transform their behaviors and provide a secure environment where team members can grow as they mature through the agile transformation.
Lead the Team in the Scrum methodology.
Ensure that all Scrum events take place and stay true to the value of the ceremonies.
Facilitate stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed.
Work with team members one-on-one to provide focused coaching to ensure the Team works together and is working within the Scrum framework.
Facilitate Scrum processes and events, enabling team maturity and effectiveness by leveraging data-driven metrics.
Create an agile mindset focusing on agile values and principles, leading with transparency, inspection, and adaptation, delivering high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done.
Through servant leadership skills, enable teams to develop sprint goals and quality incremental delivery.
Facilitate communication and partnership inside and outside the Team to include stakeholder engagement.
Promote self-organization and cross-functionality of the Team coaching each role to enable high performance of the Team.
Commitment to quality.
Help the team understand the why in any situation. Value delivery is key for our organization.
Promote out of the box thinking.

**What you'll need (required)**:
Bachelor’s degree or Master´s degree
Extensive background with project and program management processes, techniques, and methodologies. Experience in facilitating change, including collaboration with management and executive stakeholders.
Knowledge of the Scrum methodology (Agile)
Experience with Microsoft Office 365 platform
Proficient in English

**What else we look for (preferred)**:
Work well under pressure with differing levels of management
Ability to determine what is scrum and what is not
Ability to work with and lead a team
Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills
Ability to adapt to a changing environment.
Ability to work across all levels and business units of an organization and with diverse team members
Experience working in Jira.
Customer Service Focused - the ability to deliver sustained high performance and high levels of customer satisfaction.
Analytical thinker, Metrics Driven
Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and excellent analytical ability
Maintain confidentiality and communications.
Certified Scrum Master is desired.

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.