Director, R&D Material Science Innovation, Medical Products & Therapies (On-Site Round Lake, IL – RELOCATION Assistance Considered)

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Your Role at Baxter:

Baxter’s Medical Products and Therapies ($5.2B segment) includes our Infusion Therapies & Technologies and Advanced Surgery businesses.  Infusion Systems and Patient Monitoring help clinicians safely deliver medications and monitor patients at the bedside.  We’re working to enable clinicians to provide their best care to patients and safely deliver medications at the bedside. For example, we are helping elevate patient protection from the pharmacy to the bedside through our infusion pump. We are also focused on helping clinicians reduce the potential for touch contamination during setup and change of IV administration sets with single set technology for both pump and gravity medication delivery.

As a Director, R&D Material Science Innovation, you will focus on the material science related aspects of innovation and exploratory materials, products, and technologies for medical devices and drug products. Reporting to the VP, Material Characterization & Assessment, you will partner closely with multiple cross-functional organizations supporting programs intended to launch new products and platforms.  Initially you will be an individual contributor who, over time, will form their own team of 4 – 5 direct reports.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead and drive innovation and exploratory materials strategies in support of Medical Products and Therapies (MPT) medical device and drug products portfolio.

• Lead pivotal exploratory initiatives with integrated functions (including Marketing and Medical Affairs).

• Implement departmental strategy and objectives that align with MPT’s vision, business, and patient needs.

• Contribute to the broader MPT Innovation strategy, product and technology roadmaps, and pre-product development pipeline across the product portfolio.

• Establish and drive long-term plans for products that incorporate green chemistry, recyclability, and sustainability considerations.

• Apply rigorous innovation methodology to identify new opportunities (both internal and external) and assess concept feasibility.

• Develop a culture of innovation across the broader R&D organization.

• Apply strong Intellectual Property strategies and protection across the pipeline applicable to global markets.

• Foster a collaborative work environment with strong working relationships across business segments, divisions, and functions, with strategic external partners, and with leading research institutions.

• Mentor and lead a team of engineers and scientists of varied professional expertise and background.

• Develop a highly effective, resilient team that is set up to scale in line with the growth of our global organization.

• Demonstrate subject matter expertise in polymer science, chemistry, novel material development, and engineering, while developing broad knowledge within MPT’s diverse product portfolio.

• Partner with and influence Sr. Management to drive long-range innovation strategies and technology investment at the divisional level, including business cases/budgets.

• Travel estimated at 25%.

Your Location:

The role is located at our R&D facility in the greater Chicago, IL area northern suburb of Round Lake.  Relocation assistance will be considered. Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a required minimum number of days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission. The flexible workplace policy is subject to local laws and legal requirements. At its discretion,