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Your Role at BaxterDrive Innovation. Deliver Impact. Improve Lives. At Baxter, project management is more than coordinating timelines and budgets. It's about turning ideas into solutions that help healthcare providers and patients around the world. We're looking for a strategic leader who thrives in complex environments, embraces challenges, and brings people together to achieve ambitious goals.
Your Team: Project Managers provide business and technical leadership for lifecycle management and line extension programs for Baxter's Advanced Surgery division, leading project teams through the identification, justification, prioritization, initiation, development, and implementation processes. Project Managers will lead the core team to define the milestones to achieve the launch date commitments and identify issues and risks associated with those plans. This person will serve as a champion of product lifecycle management processes recognizing how project results impact the overall success of the organization. The Project Manager will develop core team and lead its ability to deliver the project.
What You Will Be Doing:
  • Accountable for core team performance, program schedule and execution, budget commitments and spend
  • Leads team in defining program strategies, developing goals, and ensures project scope is defined and controlled
  • Continuously interacts with all functions and levels of management ensuring effective ongoing communications across teams and stakeholders
  • Ensures identification and communication of project risks, development of risk plan and proactive management of risk response strategies
  • Anticipates potential conflict situations for proactive solutions and manages situations to result in win-win outcomes
  • Improves business results through continuous improvement in organization's ability to implement programs from identification through implementation
  • Leads core team to identify and implement continuous improvement
Ensure successful project launches while maintaining a strong focus on quality, compliance, and customer impact.
What You Will Bring: Bachelor's degree in Engineering and 8+ years of related experience, or Master's degree with 6+ years of experience.5+ years of project management experience leading complex, multi-site initiatives. Experience within regulated industries, preferably medical device, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or advanced manufacturing. Proven ability to lead through influence, drive execution, and deliver results across diverse teams. Strong business acumen, financial management, and strategic planning capabilities. Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills. Demonstrated success managing competing priorities in fast-paced environments. PMP, PMI, IPMA, or equivalent project management certification preferred. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

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