Program Manager, Business Transformation & Platform Operations

This is where  your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride.  Your role at Baxter The Program Manager, Business Transformation & Platform Operations serves as a strategic partner supporting business transformation, operational excellence, enterprise platform enablement, reporting, analytics, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives across Care Communications. This role partners with business and technical stakeholders to optimize processes, improve visibility, drive adoption of organizational capabilities, and enable scalable business operations. This role is intended to create sustainable coverage for critical transformation and platform operations work, reduce key-person dependency, and strengthen continuity across reporting, automation, governance, business compliance, revenue acceleration, and operational improvement efforts.

Lead and support cross-functional business transformation initiatives that improve operational execution, visibility, consistency, and scalability. Partner with leaders and stakeholders to identify process gaps, manual workarounds, data quality issues, and opportunities for simplification. Translate business needs into practical process, reporting, automation, and platform-enabled solutions. Support prioritization, sequencing, readiness, and adoption of business capabilities across multiple stakeholder groups. Enterprise Platform Enablement & Governance Support business-critical platforms and operational tools by coordinating enhancement requests, gathering requirements, supporting testing, and enabling adoption. Provide governance, administration support, roadmap coordination, user support, training, and continuous improvement for enterprise business systems. Learn new platforms and business processes quickly; develop enough fluency to connect system capabilities to operational needs and business outcomes. Partner with technical teams to clarify requirements, validate solutions, support readiness activities, and ensure business users understand process or system changes. Reporting, Analytics & Automation Develop, maintain, or support operational reports, dashboards, metrics, and business insights that improve decision-making and execution. Identify automation opportunities that reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and increase operational capacity. Support reporting governance, data quality improvement, and standardization of key operational metrics. Partner with teams to convert reporting needs into clear requirements, sustainable dashboards, and repeatable reporting routines. Stakeholder Partnership & Advisory Support Serve as a trusted business partner across PMO, PgMO, revenue, compliance, operations, and technical teams. Provide advisory support for business compliance, revenue acceleration, value-stream strategy, quoting transformation, reporting, automation, and process improvement needs.   Communicate priorities, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to business leaders and cross-functional partners. Help leaders identify which initiatives should be protected, deferred, or re-scoped based on available capacity and business impact. Documentation, Knowledge Transfer & Business Continuity Create and maintain process documentation,