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.

• Leader of release planning and orchestrating the various agile workstreams and plan for an effective release for digital products, services in chronic, acute therapies every few quarters.
• Manages Technical project managers/lead system integrators in digital organization and acts as Release Train leader coordinating all planning, dependencies in a collaborative climate among internal and external teams/ business units to achieve organizational goals in a matrixed environment.
• Responsible for end-to-end Software project/program delivery, including project plan, schedule, execution/monitoring working with cross functional team globally.
• Applies knowledge of product lifecycle management, agile development to effectively drive specific design phases with high quality and predictability of timeline and budget.
• Demonstrates understanding of and adherence design control procedures, regulations and standards and ensures appropriate design controls are being adhered to during sustaining engineering efforts and new product development.
• Takes accountability for resource staffing and project execution with proactive management of technical and project risk to ensure delivery of business commitments.
• Effectively communicate and realize vision and strategy for the organization that aligns with the business and patient needs.
• Ability to lead functional and technical managers/leaders in the group that ensures clear accountability and operational excellence.
• Ensures that succession planning, and talent pipeline is in place for technical/functional leadership across multiple functions and/or technical disciplines.
• Leverage partnerships effectively with cross functional teams including the business unit, quality, program management, manufacturing, regulatory, medical and clinical to achieve business results.
• Foster an environment where mentoring, coaching, career growth and progression, and employee development are critical focus areas.
• Create a culture and environment that attracts, develops, retains, and grows diverse and top talent aligned with organizational strategy.
• Actively communicate and advocate team’s capabilities and accomplishments.
• Collaborate across multiple locations to leverage talent and processes effectively.
• Ensure effective performance management of direct reports.
• Responsible for continuous improvement projects that may span multiple sections or departments with the objective of achieving quality, reliability, and cost improvements.
• Contributes to strategic planning for the assigned function and development of product/platform/technology roadmaps.
• May be required to lead some developers and functionalities around data and analytics platforms.

Leadership Behaviors/Expectations

• Inspirational leadership –motivate others to perform at their best, communicate a clear vision and champion change; builds motivated high performing teams
• Authentic leadership - demonstrate sincerity, honesty, integrity, transparent communication
• Inclusive leadership – reach across to build effective cross functional partnerships based on trust, embracing diversity
• Operational decision making; ability to simplify the complex
• Effective communication – both written and verbal
• Ability to influence and resolve conflicts within the assigned function.
• Maintains effectiveness when working with limited information or experiencing changes.
• Removes organizational barriers that inhibit outstanding performance

Your Team:

Reporting to Sr Director, Kidney Care R&D, Digital Health, you will be managing team of Software Technical Project Managers, in charge of release planning, execution, and a team of data engineers, tableau experts

Your Location:

The role is located in the BRD facility in Bangalore India. 

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering discipline is required.  Must be able to interact on a technical level.
• 15+ years’ experience in a software engineering role, preferably with experience in both embedded and digital software products. 
• At least 5 years of experience in managing Software product development teams in a matrix global organization.
• Medical device, diagnostics, laboratory testing product experience or similar products is preferred.  
• Familiarity and experience with IEC62304 standard for software life cycle is highly preferred.
• Strong proven experience with people management and building high performing teams.
• Proven coaching and mentoring skills with ability to motivate, inspire and get the best out of team.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to effectively communicate in a clear, positive and professional manner to all levels from customers and peers to Directors/VPs
• · Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• · Good organizational skills. Ability to effectively organize and prioritize tasks

Reasonable Accommodations

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