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**Your role at Baxter**
We are excited to announce an outstanding opportunity for a **Senior Manager External Contract Manufacturing - Pharma** at Baxter Healthcare Corporation in Heredia, Costa Rica.
As a world-class leader in the manufacturing industry, Baxter Healthcare Corporation is committed to delivering flawless healthcare solutions and improving the lives of patients globally. Join our ambitious team and play a crucial role in shaping the future of the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector.
**What you'll be doing**:
- Provide oversight to the manufacturing, quality, and development of products performed at ECMs dedicated to the Pharma Segment. Serve as liaison between Company and External Contract Manufacturer network.
- Support the External Contract Manufacturing (ECM) organization in execution resulting in business sustainability, growth, and cost savings.
- Contribute to Procurement/ECM supplier base strategy to support the segment growth.
- Participate in Due diligence for Business Development especially for product acquisition and licensing and distribution deals with another third-party supplier.
- Lead the procurement activities like conducting RFI, RFP, Contract execution, etc., and report the finding to the Pharma Senior leadership team.
- Responsible for creating cost-saving opportunities through competitive bidding, negotiations to achieve/exceed savings targets, and delivering on-time reporting.
- Manage contracts to ensure quality, delivery, and cost to company expectations and meet budget targets, cost savings, and capacity management.
- Partner with Manufacturing Strategy to challenge Buy-where to optimize and simplify the ECM supply chain.
- Partner with the Commercial team and ISC functions to ensure continuity of product supply.
- Analyze actual to budget cost variances, identify root causes, and drive cost improvement.
- Manage issues to ensure efficient and effective resolution.
- Lead performance business reviews with suppliers/contracting organizations.
- Responsible for ECM metrics for scorecard/dashboard.
- Partner with Quality Assurance to support/perform supplier audits, quality investigations, and non-conformance analysis by providing appropriate product/process expertise.
- Support Due Diligence evaluations of potential Business, development Target organizations.
**What you'll need**:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as Engineering, Computer Science, or Business Administration
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in ECM or related roles within the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry and Medical Device / Biologics industry working with Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Quality required.
- Technical Skills appropriate to the assigned ECM Aseptic Category, including cGMP-Regulations and Regulatory Affairs, Quality Control and Assurance, and Operations.
- Cross-functional team leadership, ability to work and influence across business units and functions, multi-site, multi-cultural. Proven ability to hold others accountable.
- Procurement experience including contract creation, negotiation, and execution.
At Baxter Healthcare Corporation, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce. We believe that diversity drives innovation and allows us to better serve our global community. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We also provide reasonable accommodations/adjustments during the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.
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