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

The Manager, Procurement is responsible for the development and execution of market leading sourcing strategies for Metals category.  

Provide leadership, strategic thinking and expertise on Metals categories to advance Baxter Global Business Units (GBUs) mission agenda “Sustain and Save Lives”. 

What you'll be doing

• Develop, lead, and maintain an in-depth global market knowledge of assigned commodities/ supplier technologies, manufacturing processes, and related industries: including cost drivers, global execution, to leverage across multiple manufacturing locations, and to understand specific supply issues.

• Act as a resource to operations teams, and others, using procurement knowledge.

• Define global subcategory segmentation and recommend best consolidation strategy to leverage business volumes.

• Responsible for definition and implementation of assigned commodity strategy based on knowledge of regional markets, suppliers, and plants.

• Analyze and calculate most competitive manufacturing costs based on market trends and suggest strategies to decrease expenditure, including transfer office.

• Create cost saving opportunities through competitive bidding, supplier development, continuous improvements, transfer office, etc.

• Act as a change agent to improve and monitor suppliers’ performance through continuous improvements activities.

• Establish service levels and jointly work with relevant stakeholders to measure and monitor supplier’s performance. Maintain and review supplier performance to ensure conformance to supplier management goals (cost, quality, service, delivery) Ensure timely resolution of all disputes.

• Negotiate purchase price, contract terms and conditions to deliver on spend cover by contracts.

• Support SWAT team in supplier recovery plan and disaster periods.

• Negotiate/Recoup all costs associated with rejects/defects, expedites, or shortages.

• Work with critical suppliers to improve current performance and develop new opportunities.

• Participate/lead cross functional teams to successfully drive complex sourcing projects.

• Effectively manages long-term relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders.

• Support of business objectives for cycle/response time, quality assurance, technology/new product development, risk mitigation, and total cost.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's Degree (Technical field preferred)

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in Procurement and/or Supply Chain.

• Experiences working with USA market, suppliers, vendors.

• Strong decision maker surrounding multi-million-dollar contracts and agreements and major policies.

• Risk management skill set required to drive innovative solutions and problem-solving analysis and resolution.

• Seasoned negotiator with knowledge of cost tools such as material breakdown, benchmarking, value analysis, value engineering, complex RFQ’s and innovative purchasing tools.

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