IT Solution Deployment Lead

Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don't settle for the mediocre. Each of us are driven to help improve patients' lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

*Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

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.

For you, it's all about the people. As a IT Solution Deployment Lead , your impact on patient care is always top of mind. Your desire for challenging, mission-driven work and eagerness to meet unforeseen challenges head-on provide robust opportunities to grow your career as a business-focused IT partner. Baxter trusts and appreciates your curious and collaborative problem-solving nature. You enjoy taking ownership of processes that enable the business to work and serve our customers more efficiently.

A global transformation is happening across our IT function—one where we are intentionally and thoughtfully reimagining how we partner with the business. Your expertise is a welcome addition and will be crucial in developing fresh solutions to optimize our technology for all of Baxter. You enjoy seeing the connection between the future and today as we look to simplify our technology landscape. Your past experiences and enthusiasm for innovation will help us streamline systems and initiatives, break down IT silos and work in an agile, hyper-collaborative model. To drive transformation, we will work smarter, not harder—which means you will be able to focus on value-driven outcomes while gaining regular exposure to the business as you grow your career with Baxter.

The Solution Deployment Lead will work closely with the global Product Owners (POs)/Functional Analysts, Product Mangers (PMs), Business Relationship Managers (BRMs) and business leaders from different businesses and regions to extend the usage and ensure effective and valuable product and application implementations.

This role will report direct line (or dotted line) to the BRM Leader within his\her scope

We bring value for Baxter by optimizing technology. It's why we are shifting our approach to a capabilities-first attitude. A leaner technology blueprint will help us drive speed, simplicity, and collaboration. Embracing new technologies and methodologies helps us to keep up with a constantly evolving market—which means we can continue to save and sustain lives across the globe.

We build relationships with one another to get the work done—winning, failing and learning together. We're an ambitious community of experts who are driven to improve our skills and deepen our knowledge. Our teams embrace workplace flexibility, combining the best of both on-site and remote work environments. Monthly check-ins replace annual performance reviews and offer a more personalized approach to your career development. Leadership encourages you to invest in yourself through a variety of learning opportunities. We move quickly, giving you the chance to grow and diversify your portfolio during times of change.

As a IT Solution Deployment Lead , you will have the opportunity to lead by example, and enjoy mentoring and learning from others. Here, you are trusted to manage your own time and are given opportunities to grow your career as you wish.

As Baxter transforms our IT organization into an innovative and strategic partner to the business, a key initiative is to invest in our IT talent in order to develop new skills and stronger eye for business. You are encouraged to take thoughtful action in developing your career and are given a myriad of resources to make that a reality. Think training, conferences, certifications, and support for advanced degrees. We live and breathe technology, but we also recognize space outside of work is needed. Take paid time off when you need to and come back refreshed so we can continue to save and sustain lives

• Support the POs to plan how the product will be implemented - to what user population - on what timeframe so that the PM can think about the correct features to meet those targets.
• Support the BRM to plan how an application will be implemented.
• Support PO and PMs regionally to articulate and educate on the high-level capabilities, features and value of the product (existing and upcoming) to BRMs or with regional commercial leaders to create a common understanding of the product offering in the region
• Support the recommendation on outcomes with the regional business and BRMs. Participate in the planning and realization of value creation for business case / prioritization.
• Support the Product Owner, Product Manager or local/regional application owner when analyzing options and start to create a vision or a to-be picture of the organization for implementation in their region. Start to assess the region's position to accept the changes.
• Support PO, PM and business application owner regionally to create change risk/impact common understanding. Prepare users/collaborators for product changes upcoming with communication on timing, impact, and value.
• Balance tech delivery with other regional and initiatives and technical and non-technical dependencies to ensure adoption and value realization along with Product Manager or local business application owner.
• Deliver communications of regional dates and pertinent information for testing/UAT retrofit testing, training, technical cutover and release plan, hypercare, and user deployment implementation.
• Support Go-live activities for major releases or major user onboarding by coordinating system and resources availability regionally. Support regional production sanity testing by business after release.
• Support Product Owners by giving Product Demos of existing functionality in preparation of Fit/Gap, UAT (User Acceptance Test), Training etc. as part of the Agile / Project Cadence.
• Support PO to perform local/regional Gap Analysis and prepare documentation of Product Gaps (including Compliance/ Legal/ Regulatory) for new products or extension of existing products into new markets.
• Support PM, PO and application owners with test execution and coordination in region. Coordinate issue triage, categorization and prioritization done between Business, PM's, PO's and Analysts together with Scrum Masters or Project Managers.
• Coordinate Data Maintenance Requests for new product/application launches or for new features that require mass data changes between countries and applicable delivery team.
• Ensure responsiveness and availability for regional Hypercare support for major releases.
• Coordinate system and resources availability
• Regional point of contact for production issue triage and emergency release

• IT concept understanding around cloud applications
• Solid understanding and working experience with Agile approach and culture; Understanding the SAFe (Agile at scale) approach is a plus.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's Level
• Project experience with enterprise level applications/technologies: 5-7 years
• Ability to work with multiple geographies in a multicultural environment
• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• Ability and maturity to lead Senior Level Stakeholders globally, regionally and locally
• Understanding of regulations to consider in the life sciences industry (Quality, PV, Data privacy)

Reasonable Accommodations

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