Project Leader

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.

Job Title – Engineering Project Leader II

• Location – Whitefield, Bangalore

• Shift – General

The Engineering Project Leader works with people around the world to support our global installed product base.

In this role you will lead several Product Design Change initiatives for Baxter’s global Acute Therapies products.

You will be expected to manage Design Change Projects from proposed initiative inception to final production implementation and market rollout.

 Job  Responsibilities:

This section contains a list of five to eight primary responsibilities of this role that account for 5% or more of the work. The incumbent will perform other duties assigned.

• Create the project plans including objective, scope, execution path, assumption, risk, schedule and resource needs
• Deploy metric-based project tracking
• Facilitate regular team meetings to set and manage work assignments
• Communicate project progress to global stakeholders
• Identify, mitigate, and manage project and technical risks following risk management processes
• Lead and participate in the development of project strategies and reliable technical solutions that meet requirements and inputs
• Hold responsibility for design control documentation
• Execute engineering change control efforts per established processes and manage the deliverables per QMS requirements
• Coordinate design change implementation in production and into markets

• Previous Sustaining Engineering and Project Management experience with demonstrated success leading multi-site activities in the medical products industry
• Strong product development background having led the development or participated in at least one complete medical device product development project end to end, i.e. from concept to production launch
• Participated in at least one electromechanical design project
• Strong Communication Skills
• Enthusiastic, must be self-driven
• Metric Focused, understands incremental delivery and the value of metrics

• Strong engineering background with at least a technical Bachelor’s Degree (Electrical, Mechanical or Systems Engineering).
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in project or program management, and 5 years experience in medical devices
• Hands-on experience using Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Tools Project Management knowledge including Agile methodologies, preferably with current certification

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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