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Portfolio Optimization Leader

United States, Deerfield Employment contract 216000.00 - 297000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted June 29, 2026
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This is where you make a difference in our patients’ safety. As a member of the Baxter Quality team, you will play an essential part in our mission of saving and sustaining lives. Quality is important throughout the entire product lifecycle and works collaboratively with all areas of the organization. Because Quality touches everything Baxter does, a role in Quality provides many opportunities for growth, learning and a successful career that has a daily impact on people’s lives.

Job Responsibility

  • Strategic Prioritization: Apply the Pareto Principle to identify the 'vital few' tasks, customers, and SKU/product lines that generate the highest returns
  • Portfolio Optimization & Governance: Govern a portfolio of initiatives focused on process improvement, business transformation, and product portfolio rationalization using 80/20 capabilities
  • establish governance forums, decision rights, and prioritization criteria to focus investment on the highest-value opportunities and eliminate low-value complexity
  • Portfolio Reporting & Value Realization: Report the status of an 800+ project portfolio, including value realization and risks to achieving targets
  • provide transparency on progress, expected outcomes, and gaps requiring leadership attention or intervention. Ensure benefit tracing is in place across Operating Income, Revenue Growth, ROIC, Free Cash Flow, cost avoidance, and customer satisfaction, and provide regular updates to Senior Leaders
  • Portfolio Mining & Enterprise Deployment: Mine the portfolio to identify repeatable initiatives, scalable solutions, and proven practices
  • standardize and enforce deployment of these across the enterprise to accelerate value capture, reduce duplication, and improve consistency of outcomes
  • Resource Allocation: Redirect human, financial, and technological resources toward high‑impact initiatives
  • Culture Transformation: Champion a culture of simplification, continuous improvement, and focus
  • Team Empowerment & Delegation: Identify top talent and delegate intentionally
  • Data‑Driven Decision Making: Use segmented P&Ls and analytics to guide decisions
  • Process Improvement & Transformation: Oversee and govern kaizen events, transformation initiatives, and cross-functional improvement efforts to ensure they align to enterprise priorities, simplify processes, increase productivity, and deliver measurable business impact

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • MBA preferred
  • 10–15+ years in operations, strategy, or continuous improvement
  • Experience with 80/20 methodology, Lean, or segmentation
  • Analytical & Strategic Thinking: Ability to see the big picture and pinpoint leverage points
  • Influence & Coaching: Inspire and coach leaders and teams to adopt focused, high‑impact behaviors
  • Decisive & Focused: Concentrate on important—not just urgent—work and say 'no' to lower‑value activities
  • Governance & Accountability Orientation: Drive results through clear governance, disciplined prioritization, and strong accountability across the portfolio
  • Exceptional Communication: Clearly articulate the 'why' behind decisions and challenge existing norms
  • Change Leadership: Influence teams through organizational transformation and simplification

What we offer

  • Support for Parents
  • Continuing Education/ Professional Development
  • Employee Heath & Well-Being Benefits
  • Paid Time Off
  • 2 Days a Year to Volunteer
  • medical and dental coverage that start on day one
  • insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • educational assistance programs
  • time-off 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
  • paid parental leave
  • commuting benefits
  • Employee Discount Program
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • childcare benefits
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