Project Leader II

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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the execution of a project release (new product and sustenance) in alignment with the program team; ensuring on-time and predictable release with good quality.
• Demonstrates excellent project management skills – estimation, planning, scheduling, stakeholder management, risk/dependency management.
• Demonstrates customer focus by ensuring quality of software releases and timely resolution of field reported issues.
• Adapts/performs the project management in the context of an agile team:
  • Facilitate agile ceremonies such as - daily standups, sprint planning, sprint reviews.
  • Conducts sprint retrospectives, drive action plans and administrates scrum boards.
  • Create and maintain project timelines and project resource plans.
  • Removes impediments and accomplishes/exceeds the sprint goal/velocity.
  • Work independently and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure project meets organizational standards and customer needs.
  • Collaborate with the team of engineers to build increment plan & track delivery.
  • Drive readiness for team to face audits both internal or external.
  • Demonstrate superior knowledge of software development life cycles to collaborate with Build and Release teams.
  • Collaborate with team members and provide guidance to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions during development & testing cycles.
  • Contribute to testing if needed (based on bandwidth availability).
  • Drive for continuous improvements (Process, Product, Quality, Metrics etc.)
• Provides guidance to development and test teams with respect to overall development process/framework.
• Leads and coaches the team members.

Qualifications / Experience and/or Background

• Bachelor degree in any engineering discipline with 6 to 9 years of experience.
• Minimum 2-3 years’ experience in project management/ scrum master.
• PMP Certification will be an added advantage.
• Exposure to medical devices or healthcare projects would be a definite plus with exposure to medical regulatory standards/processes related to FDA/ISO/IEC.
• Strong visualization & reporting skills using latest project management & reporting tools.
• Strong presentation skills and having had the exposure of reporting out project status to senior management.
• Excellent interpersonal/communication/influencing/negotiation skills required.
• Demonstrated facilitation and negotiation skills in driving closure on product/program-related decisions/issues.
• Capable of analyzing and solving complex problems through innovative thought and experience.
• Ability to influence outside the immediate scope of responsibility.

Reasonable Accommodations

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