Director, TMTT Downstream Marketing

Innovation starts from the heart. Heart valve disease and critical care therapies 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.

Patients with mitral and tricuspid heart valve disease often have complex conditions with limited treatment options. Our Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies (TMTT) business unit is boldly pursuing an innovative portfolio of technologies to address a patient’s unmet clinical needs. It’s our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey.

Edwards is looking for an agile, goal-oriented and experienced leader to join the global downstream organization in its efforts to boldly drive the successful commercialization of the TMTT portfolio globally. In this role you will lead a team that will enable commercialization and global expansion of groundbreaking therapies. This leader will help inform launch strategy, develop strategic global marketing plans, drive the execution of the plan, and will have responsibility of coordination, management and development of a high functioning team.

How you will make an impact:

• Play a key leadership role in development of global marketing strategy, campaigns, and execution, ensuring cross-functional and leadership alignment, roll out plan, and development of metrics to measure success

• Direct activities with responsibility of developing systems, planning, budgeting, and managing priorities.

• Develop an expert understanding of the global TMTT markets, customers, and patients to strengthen our marketing plans and programs

• Expertise in new therapy launches, with ability to lead strategic global positioning, messaging, and campaign development and execution

• Work closely with TMTT regional marketing partners to identify opportunities as well as barriers to growth in order to provide thoughtful and strategic solutions

• Foster a collaborative environment by building relationships within global marketing and your cross-functional partners such as regional marketing, medical affairs, clinical, R&D, and training

• Manage and oversee the work of multiple areas, functionalities, scope and/or locations and have financial budget responsibilities.

• Identify risk, develop and lead in the implementation of broad and more complex marketing strategies which may include negotiations with internal and external parties for multiple concurrent major products, campaigns, launches, programs, and initiatives

• Plan and direct complex marketing activities with large scale or significant business impact with the accountability for successful completion of all deliverables. Lead in identifying risks, developing mitigation strategies, best practices, in collaboration with cross-functional and/or matrix teams for multiple complex and concurrent initiatives

• Direct line management responsibilities including a robust talent development plan in alignment with functional growth strategies and the desired culture of the department.
  
  *This is an on-site role based in our corporate headquarters in Irvine, CA.

What you’ll need (required):

• Bachelor's Degree in related field and related experience in marketing

• Demonstrated track record in people management

• Experience working in the medical device or healthcare industry; preferably cardiovascular

What else we look for (preferred):

• Minimum of 12 years related experience or 10 years with an MBA

• Previous leadership experience including building and managing high performing teams

• Ability to provide strategic input to influence business decisions and solutions

• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills, including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objective

• Recognized as an expert in own area with specialized depth within the organization

• Expert understanding of related aspects of marketing concepts and principles

• Possession of strong clinical, disease state and product knowledge of areas where Edwards' products are used or intended to be used, understand the purchasing process and challenges for product adoption in complex healthcare networks

• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization

• Ability to foster and develop external relationships

• Comfort managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, etc.)