Team Leader, Compounding

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.

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.

The role: Compounding Team Leader

We have an opportunity for a highly driven and motivated leader to join our Compounding Pharmacy team based in ourAuckland facility in a Full Time, Permanent position.

Working alongside our diverse group of managers, you will be collaborating in expanding and leading our highly performing multicultural team to meet business and customer requirements, as well as driving engagement in the positive culture of our Compounding Team, whilst assisting in overseeing production and supporting the Compounding Manager to meet quality, operational and business metrics.

Your key focus for this role will include people management, production efficiency, supporting and maintaining quality standards, customer satisfaction, and productivity improvements.

Shift:Monday to Friday. Flexibility across operational hours required depending on business requirements between 6.30 am until 21:00 pm.

Key Responsibilities:

• Driving the implementation of company initiatives and embedding them into the team culture

• Management of staff resources

• Management of staff time and attendance systems as well as performance reviews and career development

• Recruitment of staff

• Oversight of production flow by liaising with appropriate coordinators

• Drive process improvement and efficiency programs

• Ensure quality standards and procedures are being maintained

• Participate and contribute to site audits, where appropriate

• Customer relationship management – directly with customers as well as liaison with Sales and Marketing to manage relationships

• Oversight of delivery issue resolution

• Save and Sustain Lives

Skills and Qualifications:

• Relevant experience in Goods Manufacturing

• Demonstrated sound leadership qualities and/or people management experience

• Proven effective communication skills

• Proven ability to make timely decisions based on sound professional judgement and consideration of risks

• Demonstrated ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders

• Knowledge of the Code of Good Manufacturing Practice (favourable)

Please note that Baxter ANZ has a Christmas shutdown period from 20th December 2024 through to 6th January 2025 during which all HR /TA operations will be suspended and we will be in touch on our return. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to receiving your application.

Apply today for a career that matters! Application closes 18th January 2025.

Why Baxter?

We believe every person deserves a chance for a healthy life, free from illness and full of possibility. We see a world full of healing, with viable care options available to those with limited choices today. We envision new ways of providing physicians, pharmacists and nurses with technologies that not only treat chronic diseases, but also work to prevent them. We’re looking for team members who are motivated to learn, grow, and innovate, while making a meaningful difference for millions of people around the world.

At Baxter ANZ, we are focused on being a Best Place to Work where our people can be their authentic self, feel valued and respected.  We are committed to a culture where all employees can collaborate and work together effectively.  Relationships are a key component in how we operate in Baxter and we share the common traits of being reliable, ethical, caring, having empathy, actively listening to our colleagues as well as being open minded to new ideas and perspectives. Baxter is an organisation that makes inclusion and diversity a priority and that seeks to promote and improve gender equality in the workplace.

We are proud to be recognised among the top 120 companies for the seventh consecutive year as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality for delivering support structures for working families; stronger actions to address pay inequalities; and strategic recruitment and promotion practices that help to encourage the full participation of women at work. We are also pleased to be the winner of the 2021 & 2019 Women in MedTech Champion Company Award.  

Reasonable Accommodations

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