Enterprise CI Leader: Lean, Six Sigma & Transformation

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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.

This is a senior leadership role within the GPS (Growth & Performance System) organization responsible for leading enterprise continuous improvement through the GPS Office. This role partners with business and functional leaders to identify, prioritize, and advance improvement opportunities that are directly connected to Baxter’s value creators and most meaningful business outcomes. The role applies GPS continuous improvement methods, Lean, Six Sigma, and disciplined performance routines to improve performance and build sustainable organizational capability.

This leader develops enterprise capability to identify, prioritize, and implement continuous improvement projects in partnership with senior GPS leadership, ensuring improvement efforts are linked to value creators, focused on measurable business impact, and supported by the right methods, coaching, and governance. The role leads a team of managers implementing enterprise-wide improvement projects and cross-functional programs, driving end-to-end process transformation, and ensuring consistent methodology, strong governance, realization of targeted value, and sustainment across functions.

The GPS CI Leader is also accountable for coaching teams and leaders to embed standard work, problem solving, performance management, and follow-up mechanisms that sustain gains and prevent backsliding after project completion.

• Lead the enterprise GPS continuous improvement agenda by translating strategic priorities into actionable improvement opportunities that are linked to Baxter’s value creators and business outcomes across functions.
• Build enterprise capability to identify, scope, and implement continuous improvement projects with disciplined problem solving, strong methodology, and clear accountability for results.
• Lead a team of managers responsible for implementing enterprise-wide projects, setting expectations for delivery, coaching for problem solving, and ensuring consistent application of GPS, Lean, Six Sigma, and disciplined continuous improvement practices such as daily management, leader standard work, visual management, kaizen, and structured follow-through.
• Drive enterprise process improvement by identifying, prioritizing, and leading cross-functional continuous improvement opportunities that enhance output, improve efficiency, simplify work, and deliver enduring business results.
• Partner with senior business and functional leaders to identify end-to-end improvement priorities, remove barriers, and accelerate cross-functional programs and process transformation.
• Champion continuous improvement capabilities through training, coaching, leader standard work, and hands-on support to build a culture of accountability, problem solving, and operational excellence.
• Facilitate goal deployment and performance management routines that connect improvement work to strategy, clarify ownership, and support follow-through on value-creating priorities and KPIs.
• Ensure benefits realization and sustainment by embedding standard work, visual management, daily management, operating cadence, and review mechanisms into business-as-usual processes.
• Partner with Digital, IT, Analytics, and Data teams to improve transparency, measurement, and process enablement through dashboards, automation, and scalable tools.
• Lead enterprise workshops, kaizen events, and structured…