Senior Director, Supplier Development Engineering

Edwards Lifesciences • Irvine, CA

2d • $191,000 - $271,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Operations & Quality team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world. Our Senior Director, Supplier Development Engineering role is a unique career opportunity that could be your next step towards an exciting future. How you will make an impact: Partner cross‑functionally with R&D, New Product Development (NPD), Sourcing, and Supplier Quality Leaders to guide the design and development of new cardiovascular products, ensuring technical excellence and successful commercialization. Establish and maintain strong relationships with R&D/NPD teams, Suppliers, Program Management, Manufacturing, and Quality to drive effective project execution and ensure compliance with QSR, FDA regulations, and ISO standards. Support product development lifecycle activities, contributing engineering expertise to the design, verification, and iteration of commercial novel cardiovascular technologies. Own Lifecycle Management and supplier development engineering efforts across all commercialized products, driving continuous improvement and long‑term supplier capability. Serve as a hands‑on technical leader, providing direction, coaching, and mentorship to a high‑performing engineering team while fostering a culture of accountability and innovation. Oversee the development, qualification, and testing of complex interventional catheter systems and other delivery technologies in collaboration with external suppliers and internal partners. Develop team capabilities through targeted assignments and training, ensuring alignment with individual career goals and organizational business objectives. Own performance management processes, including setting clear objectives, monitoring progress, and ensuring high‑quality, on‑time deliverables across the engineering team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with experience managing external vendors and suppliers across sustaining engineering and new product development programs.
• Demonstrated success leading and developing high‑performing engineering teams within a regulated medical device environment.
• Travel up to 25% domestically and internationally to engage with suppliers and manufacturing partners.
• Onsite required.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or Master’s in Engineering (Mechanical or Biomedical).
• Medical Device experience in new product development with successful design optimization from development to commercialization.
• Experience in more than one of the following areas: Interventional access devices, rapid product development and manufacturing of components and complex assembly design.
• Experience in catheter and related manufacturing (extrusions, braiding, molding, laser-cutting and bonding processes).
• Experience with rapid product development in cross-functional teams, creative design, prototyping, and test method development (in-vitro-testing).
• Proven ability to apply technical knowledge and judgment to complex engineering problems.
• Knowledge of DFM, GD&T and Six Sigma methodology.
• Strong interpersonal and people management skills.
• High emotional intelligence.
• Displays broad perspective and effective judgment, demonstrates well-reasoned problem solving and decision-making.
• Ability to be bold and decisive to drive action.
• Builds a shared vision; inspires others to action; sets clear direction; establishes plans consistent with that direction.
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency; understands the importance of outperforming and outpacing the competition in meeting customer and patient needs.

Responsibilities

• Partner cross‑functionally with R&D, New Product Development (NPD), Sourcing, and Supplier Quality Leaders to guide the design and development of new cardiovascular products, ensuring technical excellence and successful commercialization.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with R&D/NPD teams, Suppliers, Program Management, Manufacturing, and Quality to drive effective project execution and ensure compliance with QSR, FDA regulations, and ISO standards.
• Support product development lifecycle activities, contributing engineering expertise to the design, verification, and iteration of commercial novel cardiovascular technologies.
• Own Lifecycle Management and supplier development engineering efforts across all commercialized products, driving continuous improvement and long‑term supplier capability.
• Serve as a hands‑on technical leader, providing direction, coaching, and mentorship to a high‑performing engineering team while fostering a culture of accountability and innovation.
• Oversee the development, qualification, and testing of complex interventional catheter systems and other delivery technologies in collaboration with external suppliers and internal partners.
• Develop team capabilities through targeted assignments and training, ensuring alignment with individual career goals and organizational business objectives.
• Own performance management processes, including setting clear objectives, monitoring progress, and ensuring high‑quality, on‑time deliverables across the engineering team.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director