Sr. Director, Finance; Division CFO - CCS

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This role requires a high‑acuity strategic and operational finance leader with responsibility for accelerating the performance of a global, technology‑driven, clinically essential medical devices division of Baxter. This is a capital equipment, connected devices, digital platforms, and cloud‑based workflow solutions business, requiring mastery of device economics, software‑enabled recurring revenue, and enterprise data systems. The incumbent will provide broad commercial finance leadership driving strategy, margin expansion, cost & capital efficiency, portfolio optimization, digital transformation, and operational excellence to:

• Enable Market‑Beating Growth:
  Growing share through differentiated product strategy, competitive insights, and pricing.
• Embed Sustainable Profitability: structural margin gains, mixed improvements, and cost optimization.
• Advance Operational Excellence: forecast vs. results accuracy, disciplined capital use, stronger portfolio performance, and improved execution.

• Act as a core member of the CCS Leadership Team, shaping portfolio strategy across Devices, Care Comm, and Digital Health.
• Drive investment decisions balancing hardware, software, and platform‑based growth opportunities.
• Provide financial leadership on build/partner/buy decisions in digital health and connected care ecosystems.
• Understand procedure drivers and consolidate market models.
• Partner with the division president and other cross‑functional leaders to pressure‑test strategic assumptions, shape long‑range financial, product, go‑to‑market, and payment model strategies.
• Drive portfolio strategy to grow high‑value modalities and rationalize underperforming areas.
• Develop market, competitive, and multi‑scenario financial models for long‑horizon investments.
• Understand and anticipate how near‑term decisions will influence immediate and long‑term customer and distributor behaviors, guiding sustainable growth.
• Provide forward‑looking insights on market trends, M&A opportunities, and investment priorities.

• Steward the full P&L encompassing top‑line growth, margin management, including manufacturing and financial planning cycles (e.g., AOP, rolling, LRP).
• Strengthen commercial execution in long‑cycle capital equipment environments, indirect and direct channel management, overall go‑to‑market channel optimization.
• Continuously monitor and optimize reimbursement frameworks, pricing architecture, discounting, and tender economics with direct, indirect and Medicare/Medicaid and private insurer payment models.
• Benchmark against major competitors and integrate market insights into executive decision making to guide differentiation and increased value generation.
• Financial modeling for both organic and inorganic investments, including due diligence.
• Optimize working capital for the division.

• Improve scalability, standardization, and lifecycle economics.
• Deliver gross‑margin expansion through COGS reduction, footprint optimization, and supply‑chain improvements.
• Monitor and manage sales, pricing, margin, credit management, and productivity funnels tied directly to P&L impact.
• Support multi‑year capital heavy purchase cycles – drive improvement in tender economics, deal modelling/structuring, and customer…