Job Summary
Baxter has long been on the forefront of developing innovative solutions for patients with kidney disease. This position offers a unique and exciting opportunity to contribute to the design, development and support of Baxter s Renal Care System software that is related to our connected medicine strategy.
In this role, you will provide cross-functional leadership on high value projects for the System software portfolio of the Renal care business of Baxter. You will be involved from concept through implementation, delivery & post-market support; assures quality is built into the design during new product development; lead teams to deliver product objectives, drive clarity by defining/prioritizing the work, define critical interdependencies/deliverables for the cross-functional team, work with the Business and Core Team leading cross-functional work, manage program risks, deliver quality and impactful products, within budget; provide oversight for various projects and core team initiatives on routine cadence to senior management.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end Software project/program delivery, including Project plan, schedule, execution/monitoring working with SW engineers globally.
- Work in close collaboration with Program managers, Project Leads & Architects to achieve tactical project goals & balance strategic Software organization goals.
- Work closely with Software development teams spread globally, playing a leadership role in Software development process across products.
- Identify project risks, control them and manage regular communication to stakeholders, ensuring thoroughness in dealing with the details.
- Execute Software projects using Incremental/Agile/SAFe methodology.
- Be a change agent. Drive agility in organization & demonstrate sense of urgency.
- Understands and deploys processes to assure conformance to the Baxter New Product Development (NPD) process in an expedited manner.
- Continuously reviews program progress, proactively identify risks and collaboratively develops and drives risk mitigation efforts.
- Interacts frequently with all levels of internal management as well as across functions and business units.
- Will work with post-market teams to monitor and handle product issues in the installed base through the CAPA processes laid down.
- Will be involved in identifying, selecting, managing & working with vendors of specialized skills and/or goods as is needed on projects.
- Participates in interactions with customers and regulators concerning product design, systems and processes.
- Identifies and manages continuous improvement projects that may span multiple sections or departments with the objective of achieving quality, reliability and cost improvements.
- Develops long term plans for product development proposals.
- Continuous improvement and simplification for efficient delivery.
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Qualifications
- Experience in multiple capacities in Embedded Applications context with a strong understanding of the technology stack and software architectures, tools & technologies. Should have had hands-on experience and worked as scrum master / release train engineer for significantly complex projects in large organizations dealing with co-ordination across multiple functions like IT, Service, Marketing, Quality, Regulatory.
- Highly experienced in SDLC implementation
- Hands-on technical expertise in Embedded & software application development technologies & tools including and not limited to:
- Real time Operating Systems
- Embedded-C / C / C++
- Design modelling tools like Enterprise Architect
- FMEA process
- Static and dynamic code analysis tools like Coverity, Valgrind, etc.,
- Project management tools like Microsoft Project Planner
- Defect and backlog management tools like JIRA
- Exposure to working in a Continuous Integration environment
- Demonstrated facilitation and negotiation skills in driving closure on product/program-related decisions/issues
- Budget management skills - Finance, resource deployment & Material tracking and utilization.
- Strong visualization & reporting skills using latest & greatest project management & reporting tools
- Strong presentation skills and having had the exposure to reporting out project status to senior management.
- Vendor management skills - have had exposure working with external consulting firms delivering specialized skills and/or goods.
- Excellent interpersonal / communication / influencing / negotiation skills required
- Sharp business, technical & financial acumen.
- Ran projects in SAFe methodology.
- Exposure to medical device product development would be a definite plus with exposure to the following:
- Medical standards: HL7, Medical cybersecurity
- Medical regulatory standards: 510K, FDA/ISO
- SDLC for medical devices
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Background and/or Experience
- Bachelors/Master s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Biomedical Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum 5 years experience in Software Project/program Management involving Enterprise, IT, Regulatory, Security, product life cycle and marketing.
Desired Characteristics- PMP certification is a plus.
