Make 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 new Edwards Technology Innovation Hub located in Pune, India.

How will you make an impact:

• Act as a strategic thought partner with 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 partner with Compensation to drive locally competitive offers to attract and retain talent.

What you'll need (Required):

• Bachelor's Degree in in related field, 10 years experience of previous related human resources experience required or Master's Degree or equivalent in in related field, 8 years experience of previous related human resources experience required.

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Proven successful project management skills
• Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite and human resources systems
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including influencing, consultative, and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
• Recognized as an expert in own area with specialized depth within the organization
• Expert understanding of related aspects of human resources processes and/or systems
• Expert knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance
• Expert knowledge of local and federal employment laws in own area with specialized depth
• Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Excellent leadership skills and ability to influence change
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships across the organization
• Effective level of business literacy about the client group(s) business, financial position, its midrange plans, its culture and its competition
• Strict attention to detail
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels while establishing a positive reputation
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
• Represents leadership on projects within a specific area interfacing with project managers and human resources team
• Consult in project setting within specific human resources area
• Provides human resources leadership to outsourcing partners on a task level
• 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