Senior Program Manager R&D Product Delivery Excellence, MPT (onsite Round Lake, IL)

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At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

Your Role at Baxter:

Baxter’s ($10.6B) Medical Products and Therapies Segment ($5.2B) includes our Infusion Therapies & Technologies (pumps, IV bags and nutritional solutions) and Advanced Surgery businesses (biopharmaceuticals used by surgeons in the OR). As the Senior Program Manager R&D Product Delivery Excellence (PDE), Medical Products & Therapies (MPT) segment, you will provide business and technical leadership, execute on this major, high-complexity program, managing and leading cross functional teams through the identification, justification, prioritization, initiation, development and implementation of the PDE processes. You will lead various business needs including financial analysis while providing high level process leadership. One of the key responsibilities will include strong collaboration with numerous cross-functional partners across Baxter’s segments including R&D, marketing, legal, operations, regulatory, integrated supply chain, purchasing, commercial, quality, etc. to ensure smooth execution. You will interact with and influence senior stakeholders across Baxter.  Though your alignment is with MPT, you will work collaboratively across all other segments Healthcare Systems and Technologies (HST) and Pharma.

As the Senior Program Manager R&D PDE, you will serve as a coach and mentor for the program, core teams, extended teams, functional leaders and project management capabilities across the organization.  You will work on processes of varying complexity including standard, complex and differentiated developments.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead the organization’s PDE framework, including process governance, stage gate methodology, and portfolio management practices

• Drive adoption of standardized process tools, templates and metrics to improve consistency and predictability of R&D outcomes which add value to the enterprise

• Drive utilization across MPT with a continuous improvement mindset

• Accountable for core team guidance in relation to the PDE process across the MPT portfolio of projects

• Serve as a coach / mentor for junior team members and champions one or more areas of project execution

• Orchestrate team collaboration and acceptance processes

• Create process efficiencies that span the entire organization, helping to streamline the business and increase productivity

• Active leadership through influence in cross-functional stakeholder management discussions, helping the business define the future direction of the PDE program

• Interact through program updates and reviews with all functions and levels of management ensuring effective ongoing communications across teams and stakeholders

• Anticipate potential conflict situations for proactive solutions and manages conflict situations to result in win-win outcomes

• Maximize business results through continuous improvement in organization's ability to execute programs from identification through implementation

• Foster collaboration

• Drive consistency across Baxter (HST, Pharma, Connected Care)

• Optimize Continuous Improvement process

Your Team:

As the Senior Program Manager R&D Product Delivery Excellence, you will be an Individual contributor (no direct reports) reporting to Senior Director R&D MPT PMO. 

Your Location:

The role is located at our largest R&D facility in the greater Chicago area northern suburb of Round Lake, IL.  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 connec