Project Specialist

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. Youll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxters products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together we create a place where we are happy successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your Role at Baxter

This dynamic role in the healthcare software industry is pivotal within Baxter Care Communications. The Project Specialists is a remotebased role responsible for the planning coordination documentation and execution of Hillrom Care Communications projects. This position will play an integral role in planning customer technology roadmaps and customer attainment strategy. Key activities include project planning resource allocation and coordination project risk assessment and mitigation revenue forecasting customer communication and internal partner management.

What youll be doing

• Project management planning & execution.
• Act with autonomy as the primary point of contact for all client projectrelated needs during an active implementation.
• Use project management software conduct regular meetings provide agendas and meeting minutes and build and maintain project plans.
• Provide strong proactive project leadership and drive followups.
• Supervise all required project metrics and proactively identify communicate and resolve customer issues.
• Meet or exceed established PMO metrics including revenue forecasting assigned project reporting/results customer revenue/project count loads and customer satisfaction reporting.
• Host inperson and remote meetings and translate technical information from technical to nontechnical resources to meet project requirements.
• Understand the challenges facing each customer and offer custom solutions while acting as a resource for sales team during longterm planning sessions.
• Define a clear revenue management strategy that enables revenue goal attainment.
• Balance the backlog of your customer with knowledge of short mid and longterm orders.
• Ability to travel 1020%.

What youll bring

• Bachelors degree in healthcare IT business or related industry.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in project management; preferably with external customer projects.
• History working within customers IT departments. Ability to discuss networking virtual server deployments IT security concerns remote connectivity and software deployment methodology.
• Health care environment experience desired.
• PMP or other industry related certification(s) a plus. Experience with consultative project management approach.
• Shown success with planning and a curiosity about synthesizing broad information into concise plans.
• Recognized leadership abilities with positive and selfmotivated attitude.
• Ability to facilitate lead and empower large diverse groups without direct line authority.
• Ability to efficiently communicate critical instruction both written and verbal.
• Positive demeanor and ability to work through complex issues customer politics and personalities.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter we are committed to equitable pay for all employees and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $72000 $99000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon location skills and expertise experience and other relevant factors.

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.

US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

This is where your wellbeing matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and wellbeing benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one as well as insurance coverage for basic life accident shortterm and longterm 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 timeoff 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. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our additional information regarding Baxter US Benefits please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits Baxter

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