VP, IT–Global Commercial Technology

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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. 

Summary:

Reporting to the CIO, the Global Vice President of IT - Commercial Technology is a strategic leadership role with a remit that includes Sales, Services, Marketing, Communications and Product Development.  This role works closely with IT segment and business leaders to co-develop, communicate, and implement strategies and technology roadmaps that support strategic business goals while advancing simplification and standardization. In this role you will architect the design, implementation, and management of standard and secure IT systems that enhance sales, marketing, new product development, customer engagement, and regulatory compliance, while using the benefits of integration across segments to manage portfolio health, ensure initiatives are supporting daily operations and deliver capabilities that meet broad enterprise goals and drive value. Through your efforts to advance our technology roadmaps, you will be accountable for a portfolio of solutions, vendor selection, relationships and contracts. Your management of the financials across the portfolio will help improve sustained profitable growth company wide.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop and implement technology strategy that supports commercial growth objectives and collaborate with executive leadership to prioritize work based on value

• Ensure key partners receive effective communication regarding key portfolio level initiatives and priorities.

• Influence functional commercial and product development strategy to promote capabilities that support strategic themes and achieve stability, quality, and development velocity.

• Align with commercial, R&D, and functional IT peers to manage application rationalization and solution lifecycle management to best support the portfolio strategy, freeing up resources to support innovation, product lifecycle management and SG&A targets.

• Provide clear visibility to roadmaps and plans to meet IT demands, working with business leaders and the IT organization to ensure any new requirements are well defined and efficiently assembled.

• Drive strategic IT communications between business owners and IT Leadership through reporting of portfolio oversight and capacity management while proactively identifying, communicating and championing opportunities to converge existing solutions to a standard that benefits enterprise wide.

• Play a supporting senior leadership role in driving the utilization of data, analytics and AI across functions in support of value driven insights and improved productivity.

• Lead inclusively to build and develop talent to meet the evolving intersection of enterprise demand and roles and skills critical to future technology.

• Assess applicability and readiness of new technology solutions and influence suppliers to develop solutions to meet our needs

• Ensure products and solutions meet or exceed federal, state and international standards

• Mature and influence the enterprise and IT operating models and application delivery and support services to ensure teams are productive and focused on velocity with a clear articulation of objectives, direction and service expectations.

• Build relationships with key leaders across the enterprise to align milestones and transformative opportunities to drive continuity

What you'll bring:

• 15 years of progressive application development/maintenance and/or project/program management experience. Preferably experience working in multiple regions/countries.

• Minimum of 10 years in a significant managerial role

• Technical and business support of commercial or regional IT

• Demonstrated success driving the development, implementation, support, and upgrading of large enterprise platforms. E.g., JDE or Salesforce

• Experience with project/product and portfolio level Agile methodologies