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The Project Manager, Transfer Programs supports Baxter's Bio Pharma Solutions business unit in Bloomington, Indiana. At Baxter's contract manufacturing facility this role will serve as the primary leader for new business opportunities and client transfer activities. This position is integral in growing the business by supporting the sales organization in assessing new opportunities, generating project proposals and supporting contract negotiations. This role leads projects through process development, validation, and commercialization activities by ensuring that all milestone requirements are delivered per agreed upon project specifications while balancing cost, resources and time commitments. The Project Manager sets appropriate Customer and Client Team Member expectations through the use of Project Management tools and guidelines while ensuring effective communications are achieved with all team members. The Project Manager ensures achievement of project objectives for assigned customers by mitigating risk and solving problems. This position reports to the Sr. Manager, Program Management.

What you'll be doing:

• Primary client facing role covering all aspects of product life-cycle, including proposal, contract, technical transfer and validation through commercialization. Supporting marketing and sales campaigns in order to understand client and market needs
• Performing technical evaluations of incoming new project opportunity requests, facilitating the Potential Product Evaluation and PAC meetings, initiating pricing discussions with finance, business development, sales and marketing and writing the final customized business proposal committing to scope, timeline, and cost.
• Participating in contract negotiations as decision maker for technical and site-specific business topics, as well as contract enforcement following agreement execution.
• Actively supporting client‘s filing by coordinating client‘s requests and follow-up questions, supporting customer relationship management and business development initiatives to ensure client satisfaction.
• Ensuring smooth transfer to commercial team upon successful completion of project tech transfer and validation.
• Ownership of the Client Forecasting and Demand/Supply Obligations (Sales & Operations Planning).
• Ownership of client program Quarterly Business Review Meetings.
• Ensures roles and responsibilities are clear across internal and external organizations to achieve desired results.
• Leads internal and external project team meetings and ensures clear actions are documented and committed enabling timeline achievement.
• Ensures collaboration and respect are maintained in all experiences while constructively providing appropriate guidance and feedback.
• Primary contact for ongoing client projects and uses best practices in communication processes. Minimizes extraneous information and reduces non-essential communications. Manages information appropriately with all parties while sharing feedback and insight to drive improvements.
• Establishes expectations with all stakeholders and customers through clearly documented processes (Project Tracker, Scope Document, Timeline, and SharePoint). Ensures understanding through direct and active communication channels.
• Determine appropriate service recovery response and deliver message and appropriate action to customer while coordinating with internal partners. Effectively manages trade-offs between customer service, profitability and capabilities.
• Anticipates project challenges and risk scenarios and prepares/leads and executes proactive mitigation strategies internally and/or with clients to ensure optimal results. Manages project interdependencies by use of project management tools that support monitor/control and effective risk management.
• Coordinates agreed upon scope change control when a change is proposed, ensuring financial obligations are assessed/collected from customer due to changes or additions to project scope.
• Utilizes Action Item List, timelines, project scorecards, project metrics, and deliverable tracking to drive project performance and ensure facility personnel understand progress and critical attention areas.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and ensures internal partners take ownership and drive results.
• Achieves billable project activities per business guidelines and approved project plans. Works with customer and sales to ensure additional work activities are billed and that the project meets profit guidelines.
• Contributes technical and product knowledge throughout the project lifecycle and understands balance and timing of involving appropriate technical resources throughout the project lifecycle through other experts when needed.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in a business or scientific discipline
• Three or more years experience in a pharmaceutical product development or manufacturing environment preferred
• Three or more years project management experience is preferred, preferably in a service business.
• Must be well versed in Project Management tools and must possess knowledge of related disciplines
• PMP certification desired
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook and the ability to use enterprise software (examples include: JDE, BPLM, Trackwise, etc.)

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 our employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. To that end, this position has a base salary range of $68,000 to $156,000 plus an annual incentive bonus. The above range represents the expected base salary range for this position. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in the role, business line, and geographic/office location.

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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