Associate Director, PMO

Baxter International Inc. • Deerfield, IL

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About The Position

Join Baxter Healthcare Corporation as an Associate Director, PMO, where your work makes a difference! This outstanding opportunity allows you to provide business and technical leadership for high-complexity programs, managing project teams through various stages from initiation to implementation. Associate Directors at Baxter lead their teams in addressing diverse business needs, including financial analysis, while providing high-level project mentorship. You will collaborate with numerous cross-functional partners, ensuring flawless program execution, and interact with senior internal and external collaborators. As a mentor within the function, you will develop core team and project management capabilities across the organization. You will handle projects of varying complexity, including standard, complex, and differentiated developments, and may manage execution for business development deals within your unit.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience in product life cycle.
• Strong knowledge of medical products, processes, and related fields such as operations, regulatory, quality, and product development.
• Proven strategic leadership, mentoring, and management capabilities.
• Understanding of financial tools and budget setting.
• Proficiency in Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Laboratory or Clinical Practices, and Product Development Process requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and mentor others, embodying Baxter Leadership proficiencies.

Nice To Haves

• MBA/MS preferred with 10+ years in product development or equivalent experience in new product commercialization.
• Experience with technology transfers and working with external vendors.
• PMI or IPMA certification or equivalent experience desired.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for core team performance, program schedule and execution, budget commitments, and spend across the portfolio of projects.
• Responsible for estimation and high-level assessment of products for future pipeline, critical to long-range planning.
• Lead major and highly complex product portfolio launches within the global business unit.
• Serve as a coach and mentor for junior team members, championing areas of project execution.
• Lead project teams in defining program strategies, developing goals, and orchestrating team appraisal processes.
• Build process efficiencies that streamline the business and increase productivity.
• Actively lead cross-functional collaborator management discussions, helping define the strategic direction of programs.
• Lead cross-functional teams to build strategies around product prioritization, applying insights from market conditions, supply chain considerations, and other external factors.
• Manage functional responsibilities while leading key project execution tasks.
• Ensure effective ongoing communications across teams and collaborators through program updates and reviews.
• Anticipate and proactively resolve potential conflict situations, leading to positive results for all parties involved.
• Improve business results through continuous improvements in the organization's ability to implement programs from identification through completion.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level