Job Description

This is where you save and sustain lives At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You\'ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients. Baxter\'s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare. Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work. Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives\xe2\x80\x94where your purpose accelerates our mission. Your Role at Baxter: Nothing changes if nothing changes, which is why Baxter is transforming our global IT function\xe2\x80\x94into one that will strengthen partnerships and enable smarter, more efficient and connected business processes. In the dynamic healthcare industry, we need to be ready to face new challenges and opportunities. As we learn, we must be agile and innovative to reveal new ways of working. Technology and our digital capability will help create a more efficient and innovative ecosystem to enable our employees, customers and products to drive better outcomes for patients worldwide. We are at the critical intersection where robust IT infrastructure and networking support meets the physicians, nurses and care givers who save and sustain lives. Together, we can build upon Baxter\xe2\x80\x99s rich heritage to advance the next generation of transformative healthcare innovations. Together, we can change how IT meets healthcare. Together, we are Baxter. This is where technology fuels purpose-driven work. Where your purpose accelerates our mission. Baxter\xe2\x80\x99s Medical Products and Therapies (MPT) global segment includes our Medical Delivery, Advanced Surgery and Clinical Nutrition businesses. As the Director IT, Technology Delivery and Operations, MPT you will be accountable for the delivery of all MPT-based applications that enable our teams to grow their market while meeting their profitability objectives. In this leadership role, you will manage a mixed model of internal resources and external partners to support as well as create new applications to maintain and grow our business. Be accountable for the delivery of differentiating capabilities of MPT across different domains such as sales, marketing, service, manufacturing, digital product platforms, and other functions. The Director is a part of the MPT IT leadership team and will be a peer to Segment business relationship managers and our Segment solution and product management team, while working with corporate IT functions that own enterprise platforms and applications. The role will need to help bring balance by ensuring that we utilize MPT-specific development only when delivering Segment-specific and differentiating capabilities while advocating for enterprise products and platforms when differentiation doesn\xe2\x80\x99t create business value. Bring your experience with diverse technologies to help us determine if the utilization is efficient and effective. What You\xe2\x80\x99ll Be Doing:

• Accountable for the delivery of MPT capabilities not part of the product portfolio or enterprise platforms and applications.

• Accountable for budget management of all MPT-based projects and application support for Segment applications not managed as a platform service or enterprise application.

• Responsible for the optimization of the delivery model for new development in MPT.

• Owns the solution design and architecture for all Segment-specific applications.

• Constantly pursues the rationalization of applications with redundant capabilities and finds the right balance of Segment application needs versus features in global products and platforms, working across Segment product owners and enterprise technology leaders to make that determination.

• Works with the centralized IT-sponsored strategic vendor management team to provide constant input into vendor reviews and strategic vendor discussions to optimize the value we receive from our primary vendor relationships.

• Active participant and influencer in our operational and QBR meetings with our primary support partner.

• Accountable for the relationships of our software vendors and secondary managed service providers not managed centrally.

• Rationalizes the technology needs across various Strategic Business Units, digital products, and manufacturing sites to eliminate duplicity and complexity in delivery.

• Manages a team of internal and external resources in support of the above activities.

Your Team: As the Director IT, Technology Delivery and Operations, MPT you will lead 3 direct reports and a total team of 24 geographically dispersed (including in the US, Mexico and India). Your team will include product owners, analysts, capability leaders, and scrum masters that own application and product capabilities and value creation. What You\xe2\x80\x99ll Bring:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree.

• Life sciences industry preferred; other highly regulated industries considered.

• 10+ years of experience in managing third-party IT providers.

• 10+ years of experience managing people.

• Prior responsibility with +$2 million/year capital products/projects

• Technical Acumen to convey and collaborate around the development of the desired functionality particularly with cloud applications.

• Strong understanding and working experience with Agile approach and culture.

• Ability to work with multiple geographies in a multicultural environment.

• Excellent customer-facing written and oral communications skills.

• Ability and maturity to communicate and manage stakeholders up to the highest levels of the organization globally, regionally and locally.

• Demonstrated understanding of functional capabilities such as commercial enablement and manufacturing execution systems.

• Excellent Functional Process Knowledge/Business Acumen for their subject matter area.

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