Key skills
Project Management
About this role
Role Overview
- Support the execution of enterprise strategic priorities by translating defined strategies into structured operational plans, roadmaps, and integrated workstreams across functions and regions.
- Partner with senior leaders and program sponsors to drive progress on priority initiatives, ensuring scope, achievements, and success metrics are clearly defined, monitored, and managed.
- Contribute to the sequencing and coordination of initiatives to enable strategic agility while maintaining execution rigor.
- Flex resources and priorities as business needs evolve across functions and geographies.
- Act as a day-to-day integrator across cross-functional teams, ensuring dependencies, handoffs, and interconnections between initiatives are visible and proactively managed.
- Support the development of efficient end-to-end work processes and portfolio coordination mechanisms to prioritize effort and improve outcomes.
- Facilitate alignment across functions by supporting governance forums, preparing integrated updates, and escalating risks or trade-offs as needed.
- Build strong working relationships with functional partners to reduce silos and accelerate enterprise outcomes.
- Monitor operational performance indicators and support the development of actionable insights and reporting that link execution to enterprise priorities.
- Support the deployment of standardized processes, operating models, and procedures that improve efficiency, consistency, and execution reliability.
- Own or co-lead defined workstreams within large, complex programs, ensuring delivery against agreed timelines, quality standards, and resource expectations.
- Support program governance cadence, including preparation of materials, tracking of actions and decisions, and follow-through on commitments.
- Identify emerging risks, issues, or capacity constraints and proactively propose mitigation options.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience preferred, including project management and/or management consulting, with increasing responsibility across complex initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to understand how individual initiatives connect to broader enterprise objectives and ensure day-to-day execution remains aligned.
- Experience managing multiple initiatives simultaneously, including planning, achievement tracking, dependency management, and issue and risk escalation.
- Exposure to operational excellence, lean, or continuous improvement methodologies that strengthen execution rigor and efficiency.
- Strong capability to work effectively in a matrixed, cross-functional environment, driving alignment and outcomes without direct authority.
- Proven ability to act as a connector across teams, surface trade-offs, reduce silos, and accelerate decision-making.
- Track record of identifying inefficiencies, supporting re-engineering efforts, and helping embed standardized processes or operating models.
- Strong analytical skills, including the use of benchmarks, dashboards, and performance insights to identify gaps and inform improvement actions.
- Acts as a change ambassador by reinforcing new processes, tools, and enterprise ways of working.
- Strategic problem solver who can integrate short
- and long-term priorities to achieve positive business outcomes.
- Willingness to travel, including internationally, up to 40%.
Benefits
- Annual Bonus Potential
- Discretionary LTI Bonus
- Medical coverage
- Health Savings Accounts
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Hospital Care Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Accidental Injury Insurance
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Short-term disability coverage
- Long-term disability insurance
- Long-term care with life insurance
- Other Well-being Resources
- Anxiety management program
- Wellness incentives
- Sleep improvement program
- Diabetes management program
- Virtual physical therapy
- Emotional/mental health support programs
- Weight management programs
- Gastrointestinal health program
- Substance use management program
- Musculoskeletal surgery, cancer treatment, and bariatric surgery benefit
- BD 401(k) Plan
- BD Deferred Compensation and Restoration Plan
- 529 College Savings Plan
- Financial counseling
- Baxter Credit Union (BCU)
- Daily Pay
- College financial aid and application guidance
- Paid time off (PTO), including all required State leaves
- Educational assistance/tuition reimbursement
- MetLife Legal Plan
- Group auto and home insurance
- Pet insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Discounts on products and services
- Academic Achievement Scholarship
- Service Recognition Awards
- Employer matching donation
- Backup day care and eldercare
- Support for neurodivergent adults, children, and caregivers
- Caregiving assistance for elderly and special needs individuals
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Support for fertility, birthing, postpartum, and age-related hormonal changes
- Bereavement leaves
- Military leave
- Personal leave
- Family and Medical Leave (FML)
- Jury and Witness Duty Leave