Technical Service & B2B Architecture and Technology Lead

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 Technology Delivery and Operations, Segment IT Leader is accountable for the delivery of all Segment-based applications that enable our Segment teams to grow their market while meeting their profitability objectives. In this leadership role, you will manage a mixed model of internal resources and external partners to support as well as create new applications to maintain and grow our business. The leader will be accountable for the delivery of differentiating capabilities of a Segment across different domains such as sales, marketing, service, manufacturing, digital product platforms, and other functions as required for differentiation in a given Segment.

Your team

The role is a part of the Segment IT leadership team and will be a peer to Segment business relationship managers and our Segment solution and product management team, while working with corporate IT functions that own enterprise platforms and applications. The role will need to help bring balance by ensuring that we utilize Segment-specific development only when delivering Segment-specific and differentiating capabilities while advocating for enterprise products and platforms when differentiation doesn’t create business value.

What you'll be doing

• Accountable for the delivery of Segment capabilities not part of the product portfolio or enterprise platforms and applications.

• Accountable for budget management of all Segment-based projects and application support for Segment applications not managed as a platform service or enterprise application.

• Responsible for the optimization of the delivery model for new development in the Segment.

• Leads the solution design and architecture for all Segment-specific applications.

• Constantly pursues the rationalization of applications with redundant capabilities and finds the right balance of Segment application needs versus features in global products and platforms, working across Segment product owners and enterprise technology leaders to make that determination.

• Works with the centralized IT-sponsored strategic vendor management team to provide constant input into vendor reviews and strategic vendor discussions to optimize the value we receive from our primary vendor relationships.

• Active participant and influencer in our operational and QBR meetings with our primary support partner.

• Accountable for the relationships of our software vendors and secondary managed service providers not led centrally that are particular to the assigned Segment.

• Rationalizes the technology needs across various Strategic Business Units, digital products, and manufacturing sites to eliminate duplicity and complexity in delivery.

• Leads a team of internal and external resources in support of the above activities

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree.

• 10+ years of experience in leading third-party IT providers.

• 10+ years of experience managing people.

• Prior responsibility with +$2 million/year capital products/projects

• Technical Skill to convey and collaborate around the development of the desired functionality particularly with cloud applications.

• Strong understanding and working experience with Agile approach and culture.

• Understanding of regulations to consider in the life sciences industry (quality, security, data privacy).

• Demonstrated understanding of functional capabilities such as commercial enablement and manufacturing execution systems.

• Excellent Functional Process Knowledge/Business Acumen for their subject matter area

Reasonable Accommodations

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