Senior Global Competitive Intelligence Manager - Deerfield, IL

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. 

Your Role at Baxter

This is where your ideas lead to success!

As a Senior Global Competitive Intelligence Manager for our Infusion Therapies and Technologies business, you play a crucial role as advisor to the commercial team and executives by providing insights to help positively influence and craft strategic decisions. You will continuously analyze external market and competitive dynamics to support and drive continued market leadership in our core business and successful expansion into adjacent segments. You will also regularly disseminate significant CI insights and corresponding implications to key partners within the business and executives at Baxter.

About Baxter’s Infusion Therapies & Technologies (ITT) division

A ~$3B global business that includes a broad portfolio of products to include IV solutions, IV access, infusion technologies, specialized patient monitoring, and digital health platforms. We are well positioned to support the vision of eliminating preventable harm and personalized therapy.

Your Team

As a large, multinational organization, you can expand your knowledge through collaboration with a variety of individuals, exposure to different facets of our portfolio, and an engaged leadership team that encourages ongoing development. From your leaders to your peers, we operate as a team. We are passionate about delivering for our patients and the business.

What you'll be doing

• Develop and handle a range of intelligence assets, from earnings analysis to in-depth competitive studies, market landscape assessments, patent filings, and data-driven dashboards
• Proactively monitor top competitors and develop competitive analyses to support monthly communications to key customers outlining potential impact to Baxter
• Track key market trends, predict high impact changes, and develop opportunity assessments across served markets
• Full ownership of compiling annual market model updates based on internal and external sources to define product segment CAGRs/WAMRs
• Consistently innovate and craft new visualizations, frameworks and content to level up CI tracking and align with the needs of our internal partners

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with emphasis in business preferred
• 5+ years of proven success in an insights-related role. Healthcare experience strongly preferred.
• Stakeholder Engagement: forge positive relationships with business leaders to understand primary strategies and difficulties, become a trusted advisor, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure competitive content is strategically aligned and impactful
• Research mentality: consistently build knowledge with a focus on developing insights that can support strategic and tactical decisions
• Positive demeanor and a growth mindset

Critical Competencies

• Strong communication skills across verbal, written, and visual with the ability to provide both impactful detailed and executive level communications
• You are knowledgeable about the healthcare business environment and its dynamics
• Analytical and critical thinking skills to connect CI to strategic implication to the business
• Strong financial competence
• You embrace change when it happens, and can effectively navigate ambiguous situations
• You have an inclusive mentality and value diverse opinions and perspectives

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career.

At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $136,000 to $187,000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or long-term incentive. For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an interview.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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Reasonable Accommodations

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