Job Opportunities in Costa Rica

Since 2016, Edwards Lifesciences Costa Rica has been a hub for talented individuals seeking impactful careers that help patients worldwide. We exist to provide innovative solutions for people fighting cardiovascular disease and now, in support of this mission, we are hiring a Senior Manager, Human Resources Business Leader . We invite you to be part of this exciting journey.
As part of Edwards Global Human Resources team, you will provide HR expertise to our Business Service Center in Cartago. Your HR expertise will be crucial in sustaining and expanding our global organization's positive impact. You’ll be part of the team helping to optimize our current and long-term success and enable our ongoing strategy of innovation, leadership, and focus.

We welcome you to learn more about this position and the opportunity to join our diverse and inclusive team. If this interests you, we encourage you to apply and help shape the future of HR in service of patient-centric innovation.

How you’ll 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 perform compensation analysis to drive competitive offers to attract and retain talent.

What you'll need (Required):
Bachelor's Degree in in related field, 10+ years of previous related human resources experience – or – Master's Degree or equivalent in in related field, 8+ years of previous related human resources experience

What else we look for (Preferred):
Strong business, financial, and industry acumen

Experience providing feedback and coaching to managers

Ability to establish relationships and influence across multiple levels and functions and in a matrixed environment

Adept at functioning effectively within a team environment, and presents ideas and opinions in a respectful and collegial manner

Employ a mix of operational and strategic thinking during decision-making

Ability to build and maintain strong relationships across the organization

Demonstrate exceptional customer service

Ability to support decision making with insights from workforce data and effective storytelling

Ability to plan, organize, and execute priorities with successful outcomes

Ability to exercise sound judgment with minimal direction/guidance but also knows when to escalate issues to HR leaders/executives

High degree of adaptability to change; champions the importance of change in the workplace

Operate with a global mindset

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Experience with an ERP system (Workday preferred)

Proven expertise in usage of MS Office Suite and HR systems

Demonstrated Proficiency with Microsoft tools and applications required

General knowledge of the life sciences industry a plus