Senior Manager Manufacturing

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 we make life-saving products

You have deep knowledge of and experience with manufacturing processes. You understand the importance of building relationships, establishing order, and maintaining clear communication channels. As a Senior Manager, Manufacturing, you are a leader who is willing to listen and inspire others by your actions. You also appreciate the stability of a large multinational company with a long history of growth and success. Your team is an extension of your family, and you know how to support them as individuals while helping them achieve results as a team.

Your role as a Senior Manager, Manufacturing positions you to be directly involved in the physical production that enables Baxter to fulfill our mission to save and sustain lives. You manage the line between meeting production timelines and making quality products. As a manager, you are the trusted critical connection between the business and the workers on the floor.

The Senior Manager Manufacturing oversees manufacturing operations to deliver high quality products within the budget. This role develops business/quality plans with five-year cost/quality objectives that continue to drive operational employment.

Your Team

Baxter is focused on saving and sustaining lives by finding solutions to complex problems. Each day, the manufacturing team strives to create quality products for our customers—and are sometimes met with unforeseen issues to solve. The high-caliber talent at Baxter meets these challenges head-on, as a team, to create products with the customer's needs top-of-mind.

We build relationships with each other to get work done.

As a multidisciplinary environment, we are always learning from others and exchanging ideas. This means we are open to new opinions and encourage Baxter employees always to be their authentic selves and celebrate our various backgrounds. A manufacturing facility is a high-energy environment with little downtime. We have robust processes that ensure our employees are safe and healthy—both mentally and physically. We pride ourselves on being top of the line regarding cleanliness and safety.

What you'll be doing

• Adhere to all environmental, health and safety SOPs, equipment, policies and procedures, including any department specific requirements
• Propose and devise strategies from the data gathered to support the Manufacturing Operating System
• Provide technical expertise and resources, collaborating and coordinating with Production, Engineering, and Technical Services
• Responsible for the formulation of long and short range planning for functional area
• Responsible for development of the organization’s annual operating budget and maintain expenses within the plan
• Commit to employee feedback and developmental processes
• Works with support functions to secure services and resources
• Regularly interacts with senior management or executive levels on matters concerning several functional areas, divisions, and/or customers
• Collaborates with the other manufacturing operations management staff/customers to ensure our quality commitments are met
• Ensure products are provided to customers on time so that product quality, yield, operating costs and process efficiencies are met
• Responsible for ensuring the quality and quantity of work produced, staffing requirements, budgets, costs, methods, maintenance of discipline, transfers, promotions, salary changes, terminations and performance standards
  

What you'll bring

• Candidates must not be allergic to Penicillin or Cephalosporins
• Requires a bachelor’s degree, from an accredited institution, preferably in a technical discipline.
• 8 or more years of proven experience in all aspects of the manufacturing process in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or comparable environment
• Experience in Aseptic environment is highly preferred
• Ability to lead activities of departments through subordinates who exercise full supervision in terms of cost, methods, and employees
• Ability to interpret and analyze statistical data and information and financial reports, understand and resolve technical difficulties, collaborate with internal engineering/technical experts and external technical representatives, manage multiple priorities in a manufacturing plant setting, be resourceful to a large manufacturing department

US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching. We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our employees. For additional information regarding Baxter US Benefits, please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits | Baxter

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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