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.

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 business acumen. 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!

If you are a motivated and experienced IT professional looking to make a difference in the healthcare industry, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity!

This role will be focused on the Day 2 KCO program and will be the IT Delivery Lead (IDL) owner for specific functional area. The Day 2 program team is chartered to stand up new technology solutions which allows KCO to operate separately from the Baxter systems and exit from Transition Services Agreements (TSA).

Functional area includes focus on Record to Report functions which consists of the following:

• Record to Report (R2R) Process Overview:
• The R2R process is a series of interconnected activities that ensure the accurate and timely recording, reporting, and analysis of financial and operational data for the medical device business.
• The goal of the R2R process is to provide timely and accurate information to support business decision-making and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Key areas include accounting, asset management, financial planning and analysis, settlements and payments, tax and treasury.
• Key Process Steps:
• Data Collection: Capturing financial and operational data from various sources, such as sales, production, and procurement systems.
• Data Validation: Verifying the accuracy and completeness of the collected data.
• Data Consolidation: Combining data from multiple sources into a single, unified view.
• Reporting: Generating financial and operational reports, such as income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.
• Analysis: Analyzing the reported data to identify trends, patterns, and areas for improvement.
• Compliance: Ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and industry standards.

The IDL role will be focused on delivering a quality solution delivery process to include application development and configurations that enable end-to-end business processes. This role will work alongside the Business Process Owner (BPO) team on the program to ensure that the business operations can function with the new technology solution. The person will partner with BPO to ensure that the solution will meet program guiding principles and business requirements to support the KCO customers, patients and internal stakeholders.

The team will be organized by process tower and include internal teams that will collaborate with System Integration organization to ensure successful development of the business process solution. The IDL will support guiding principles of the program to use solution standard methodologies and out-of-the-box solutions to ensure speed in delivering the solution. See development cycle through unit testing, end-to-end testing, performance, and unit testing all the way through to successful deployment into production.

The IDL role is responsible for designing, developing, implementing and supporting applications, systems and IT products required to achieve the company's business objectives.

• Proven functional process knowledge within the process tower assigned.
• Ability to provide strategic consulting on technical and process impact to organization, related technologies and implementation / deployment strategies.
• Demonstrates general understanding of hardware/software platforms including but not limited to operating systems, databases, application servers, web servers and integration technologies.
• Plans and completes system implementations that ensure success and minimize risk of system outages or other negative production impacts.
• Demonstrates conceptual knowledge of architecture standards and database and operating systems.
• Demonstrates knowledge of software development, life cycle, modeling of business processes, application design patterns, business / functional documents. Estimates to high level business requirements and provide options analysis for solution.
• The lead identifies and mitigates risks associated with the program implementation, such as delays, cost overruns, and disruptions to the business.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or business.
• 10+ years of experience in engineering or related technology roles.
• Previous large transformation ERP program experience desired.
• Prior leadership experience in matrix environment desired.
• Demonstrable ability to set technology direction and oversee successful delivery and/or support of technology solutions.
• Ability to define work processes and lead team members in successful implementation.
• Systematically develops employees through stretch assignments with specific competency development goals.
• Supports promotion of own people when talent is needed elsewhere and provides individuals with development opportunities.
• Experience in healthcare is desired.
• A consulting background or experience with project management considered an asset.
• Experience with ERP software such as Oracle and SAP is a plus.

Accountabilities include:

• Provide overall coordination to ensure successful delivery of deliverables within process tower assigned by teamwork other process towers and the IT cross program solution towers, as well as System Integration partner teams.
• Support design of a standardized end to end business process, with firm understanding across the business on areas that are core versus differentiated in solution configuration.
• Ensure consistent development and documentation of detailed solution design and Fit-Gap using ERP selected tools.
• Minimize software (ERP) customization and avoid code modifications, provide overall governance for process customization approval.
• Collaborate with business process teams to ensure requirements are met through new ERP solution.
• Participate in test strategy definition to ensure process operations can be fully tested through test cycles with focus on process inter-operability, meeting customer and supplier needs and successful quality criteria for go-live.
• Support efforts of data migration and cleansing.
• Monitor quality of deliverables/key project risks for assigned areas of responsibility.
• Participate in cross-functional process meetings to ensure alignment of process across program.
• Participate in planning for deployments and assisting with leading deployment activities for the successful execution of go-live process for each phase of the program.
• Must be able to handle financial and project budgets; as well as adhere to forecasts and schedules for defined work.
• Support business and IT readiness efforts.
• Ability to quickly learn and understand the Kidney Co business processes.

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.

The successful candidate for this job may be required to verify that he or she has been vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to reasonable accommodations for individuals with medical conditions or religious beliefs that prevent vaccination, and in accordance with applicable law.

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