Manager, Quality Compliance

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— where your purpose accelerates our mission. 

Your Role at Baxter

This is where your creativity addresses challenges!

You are creative, thorough, and a heads-down do-er. You embrace a challenge and truly apply the collaborative powers of your team to produce great results. You are motivated by work that is never the same from one day to the next. As a Manager, Quality Compliance, you are unafraid of navigating through necessary internal processes to facilitate a product you deeply believe in. You can absorb and act on complex procedures and data and train your team or peers if needed. You take pride in getting things done quickly without sacrificing safety or quality.

Your Team

Within Quality, every role makes a difference. Products that Baxter makes are shipped worldwide for patients in need. Whether it's building a new process from scratch or facing a never-before-seen production hurdle, individuals within Quality are given the trust and opportunity to bring creativity to the table. Regardless of your specific role with a product, it is sure to touch a portion of our global operation.

The Quality function values both working together as a team and independently. We draw energy from working in a plant or an office where there are opportunities to collaborate. As the company evolves, so does the way our team approaches work as it strives to create top-of-the-line products.

We build relationships with each other to get work done. Building these relationships is easy because we all share common traits of being reliable, ethical, and caring. We lean on our colleagues for their expertise and hold each other accountable. We feel empowered to speak up when there's a new insight or opportunity to improve something. This open dialog builds trust within the team and helps create a better product for our customers.

What You'll Be Doing

• Develop, implement, and maintain quality systems policies, procedures, and processes to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, including FDA, and other authorities.

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for the management of quality systems, including but not limited to document control, change control, deviation management, CAPA, training, and audits.

• Training and Education: Design and deliver comprehensive compliance training programs for employees of all levels to promote awareness of compliance obligations and foster a culture of integrity and ethical conduct within the organization.

• Understands and deploys processes to assure conformance to regulations in a mid to large size plant of a large program or department. Manages regulatory inspections.

• Risk Assessment & Mitigation: Conduct regular assessments to identify potential compliance vulnerabilities and develop strategies to mitigate risks effectively. Monitor changes in laws, regulations, and industry trends to anticipate and address emerging compliance issues proactively.

• Monitoring & Auditing: Establish monitoring and auditing processes to evaluate the effectiveness of compliance controls and identify areas for improvement. Lead and participate in internal and external audits, inspections, ensuring timely responses and resolution of any findings or observations.

• Investigations and Remediation: Lead investigations into compliance incidents, allegations of misconduct, or violations of policies and regulations. Implement corrective actions and remediation plans to address identified issues and prevent recurrence.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with various departments, including Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing, and R&D, to drive continuous improvement initiatives and ensure alignment with quality objectives.

• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), data analytics and metrics to assess the effectiveness of quality systems and identify areas for improvement.

• Stay abreast of regulatory developments, industry trends, and best practices related to quality systems