Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don't settle for the mediocre. Each of us are driven to help improve patients' lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

*Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

The IT Delivery Lead (IDL) will be responsible for delivering a quality solution delivery process for the Day 2 KCO program, focusing on Forecast to Plan functions, including forecasting, planning, material requirements planning (MRP), production planning, inventory planning, distribution planning. The IDL will work alongside the Business Process Owner (BPO) team to ensure that the solution meets program guiding principles and business requirements to support KCO customers, patients, and internal partners. The role will partner with BPO to make sure that the solution will function with the new technology solution, focused on application development and configurations that enable end-to-end business processes.

If you are a motivated and experienced IT professional looking to make a difference in the healthcare industry, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity!

The team will be organized by process tower and include internal teams that will collaborate with System Integration organization to ensure successful development of the business process solution. The IDL will support guiding principles of the program to use solution standard methodologies and out-of-the-box solutions to ensure speed in delivering the solution. See development cycle through unit testing, end-to-end testing, performance, and unit testing all the way through to successful deployment into production.

• Software development techniques and fluency in software languages and application programming interfaces
• Conceptual knowledge of architecture standards and database and operating systems
• Drives system implementations that ensure success and minimize risk of system outages or other negative production impacts
• Provides collaborative leadership to assigned teams, including internal and external consultants
• Make sure schedule, quality of defined program, timelines and budgets stay on track
• Develops and implements policies and procedures to achieve program goals.
• Provides overall leadership to internal and external partners to deliver on commitments within the process tower
• Demonstrates ability to work in a complex matrix environment and generate solutions to issues daily
• Support the design of standardized end-to-end business processes, ensure consistent solution design and documentation, and minimize software customization
• Collaborate with business process teams to ensure requirements are met, participate in test strategy definition, and support data migration and cleansing
• Monitor quality of deliverables, run financial and project budgets, and support business and IT readiness efforts

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or business required.
• 10+ years of experience in engineering or related technology roles
• Experience with large ERP transformation program
• Prior leadership experience in matrix environment desired.
• Ability to define work processes and lead team members in successful implementation.
• Experience in healthcare is desired
• A consulting background or experience with project management

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission.

The successful candidate for this job may be required to verify that he or she has been vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to reasonable accommodations for individuals with medical conditions or religious beliefs that prevent vaccination, and in accordance with applicable law.

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