Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. Our Legal team works to protect our patients, team members, and innovations with the utmost diligence and care. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a dedicated team and build lasting partnerships with stakeholders across our global organization. Your knowledge and contributions will help us ensure that we are supporting the needs and interests of the patients we serve.

Innovation starts from the heart. Edwards Lifesciences is the leading global structural heart innovation company, driven by a passion to improve patient lives. With millions of patients served in over 100 countries, each team makes a meaningful contribution by improving patient outcomes and discovering lasting solutions for unmet patient needs. Our Senior Director of Corporate Impact role is a unique career opportunity that could be your next step towards an exciting future.

This role is an onsite role (minimally 4 days a week) based at our corporate headquarters in Irvine, California.

How you’ll make an impact:

Reporting to, and working closely with, the SVP, Associate General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, the Senior Director of Corporate Impact (formal Edwards title is Sr Director, Corporate Sustainability) role will be responsible for managing the development, day-to-day implementation and ongoing evolution of Edwards’ Corporate Impact strategy.  This includes developing internal processes and a governance structure for all of the requirements relating to the global environmental, social and governance regulations for our innovative, growing structural heart company of over 16,000 employees.

• Support the management of all Corporate Impact goals and workstreams.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for ESG regulation, identifying and continuously monitoring global regulations, enterprise risk, ESG reporting standards and industry trends to understand the implications and compliance actions for Edwards.
• Formalize governance over ESG data collection, validation, report preparation and final review, including executive and board level oversight.
• Manage external consultants and lead readiness assessments to help Edwards stay ahead of global reporting obligations (i.e. CSDDD, SEC, CA).
• Partner with Operations, ERM (an external consulting firm), Finance, Internal Audit, and other reporting functions to craft and operationalize SOX-like controls to ensure that qualitative and quantitative disclosures are consistent, complete, accurate and verifiable.
• Work closely with global and cross-functional teams to ensure that Edwards’ governance strategies, policies, processes, controls and disclosures meet emerging compliance requirements that align with voluntary and regulatory reporting standards. 
• Implement Workiva platform as a data solution so as to ensure a repository and database for all reported information and to prepare for the filing requirements under global regulations. 
• Develop and facilitate trainings for key data owners and reporting partners on compliance requirements, internal processes, systems,  tools and any other related control procedures.
• Build limited and reasonable multi-year assurance workplans, partner with external accounting firms (e.g., Double Materiality Assessments) and oversee audit activities.
• Assist in managing the Corporate Impact Council to drive awareness, alignment and progress against the organization’s long-term plans.
• Assist in reporting to the Executive Leadership Team and Board of Directors updates on the Corporate Impact program.
• Identify risks, perform regular testing and review annual assurance findings to implement ongoing improvements to Edwards’ control process, governance and filings.

What you’ll need (required):

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in a related field and 14 years of related experience OR
• Master's Degree or equivalent in a related field and 12 years of related experience

AND

• Proven subject matter expert within the Sustainability/Corporate Responsibility space with extensive experience in sustainability, philanthropic, investor relations, communications or other related business initiatives

What else we look for (preferred):

• Prior in-house experience strongly preferred.
• Financial or sustainability certifications (CPA, CFA, CSP, GRI, SASB)
• Familiarity with mandatory and voluntary reporting standards, (IFRS/ISSB/EFRAG, GRI, SASB), frameworks (COSO, CDP/TCFD) and third-party ratings (ISS, S&P, Sustainalytics, MSCI, Bloomberg, Ecovadis).
• Strong analytical, written, communication and program management skills.
• Ability to navigate uncertainty, work in a fast-paced environment and complete deliverables within established deadlines.
• Comfort leading diverse functional and geographic teams around strategic priorities, planning and performance optimization.
• Excellent analytical, detail-oriented, organized and information seeking skills
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
• Recognized as an expert within field and within the organization, both within and beyond own function
• Expert understanding of related aspects of legal processes and/or systems
• Strict attention to detail
• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to represent leadership on programs or org-specific strategic initiatives within multiple areas, interfacing with project managers, legal team and leadership team
• Ability to consult in program setting within multiple financial areas, deeper or more dedicated advisory role, interfacing with more senior management
• Adhere to all EHS rules and requirements 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

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 $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.