IT Functional Analyst - HR & Legal

Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to spin off 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.

Your role at Baxter

As Baxter transforms our IT organization into an innovative and strategic partner to the business, a key initiative is to invest in our IT talent in order to develop new skills and stronger business acumen. You are encouraged to take thoughtful action in developing your career and are given a myriad of resources to make that a reality. Think training, conferences, certifications, and support for advanced degrees. We live and breathe technology, but we also recognize space outside of work is needed. Take paid time off when you need to and come back refreshed so we can continue to save and sustain lives!

If you are a motivated and experienced IT professional looking to make a difference in the healthcare industry, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity!

Your Team

As the Global Functional Analyst (FA), you are responsible for defining and supporting the building of valuable, feasible, viable, and usable products and technical solutions that meet customer needs over lifecycle of the solution. The Analyst will define the product/solution roadmap for the scope area assigned.

The FA works directly with business partners and Product Managers (PMs) to understand and communicate their needs. The FA will also closely with Business Relationship Managers (BRMs), other IT team members and SMEs from different areas to define how technology can enable business processes, drive business value and critical metric improvement.

What you'll be doing

• Responsible for to setting plans and goals for their product/solution/solution and for their teams, constantly presenting and building consensus to meet the established outcomes, with PMs and BRMs.
• Responsible for planning how the solution will be implemented to improve the value of the product/solution.
• Work daily with user experience designers, visual designers, and software engineers to make strategic and tactical decisions about product/solution functionality, balancing appropriate tradeoffs between business goals, user goals, scalability/maintainability, time-to-market, and process efficiency.
• Accountable and sometimes responsible for prototypes, flow diagrams, use case documents, story maps, and mockups to help visualize and describe the feature of the product/solution.
• Identify potential technology options and complete IT cost assessments with support for IT architecture resources as needed.
• Bringing together business and functional requirements and writing clear specifications to communicate them to the development teams.
• Define features and continuously require prioritization with the PM to identify the right initiatives to focus on and add to the product/solution roadmap to ensure there is a constant flow of value creation.
• Accountable for the delivery of features as prioritized by the PM with constant advisement on value versus effort and fit to the roadmap.
• Play a lead role in process governance with the goal to harmonize processes and the underlying system solution whenever possible.
• Work with the technical architects and engineers to define technical solutions and enablers in line with functional and non-functional requirements and the process flows defined.
• Integrate upcoming enabler work such as architecture, data privacy, security, regulatory and compliance into the backlog with the PM.
• Leverage survey results, interviews with users and data/analytics and insights to continuously improve and scale their product/solutions and employ solution strategies.
• Be a constant change champion for new ways of working.
• Participate in team demos and retrospectives.
• Report progress and status in terms of business and customer outcomes.
• Support internal change management teams and external marketing teams to drive adoption and deliver product/solutions to market.
• Managing projects through all of their phases and landmarks
• Serve as main contact to the business for systems

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's degree required
• 6+ Years of experience in digital/technical product/solution ownership as per noted above
• Prior experience or ability to learn technical development architecture and configuration principles.
• Good understanding and working experience with Agile approach and culture.
• Understanding the SAFe (Agile at scale) approach is a plus.
• Skills in prototyping and rapid ideation/discovery.
• Ability to work with multiple geographies in a multicultural environment.
• Experience in working in regulated environments (i.e. privacy/compliance)
• Design thinking awareness and prior usage strongly preferred.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission.

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 $96,000 to $132,000 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. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses. For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an interview.

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The successful candidate for this job may be required to verify that he or she has been vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to reasonable accommodations for individuals with medical conditions or religious beliefs that prevent vaccination, and in accordance with applicable law.

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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, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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