Critical Account Lead

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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.

As a Critical Account Lead, you will serve as the single point of accountability for Baxter's most complex customer escalations within the Care Communications Solutions business. This newly created role was designed to improve the customer experience when issues span multiple products, teams, or technologies.

You'll partner closely with Technical Support, Product Management, R&D, Customer Success, Sales, and leadership teams to coordinate resolution efforts and ensure customers have a clear path forward. This is an opportunity to help build a new function, influence how critical customer situations are managed, and play a direct role in strengthening Baxter's relationships with healthcare customers.

• Own critical customer escalations from intake through customer stabilization, serving as the single point of accountability throughout the lifecycle.
• Triage incoming escalations, assess severity levels, and determine appropriate engagement and response plans.
• Lead cross-functional resolution teams across Technical Support, Product Management, R&D, Customer Success, Services, and Sales.
• Coordinate resolution activities for complex customer issues, including incidents that span multiple products, technologies, business units, and support organizations.
• Deliver executive-level status updates and escalation communications to internal stakeholders and customer leadership.
• Maintain escalation records, action plans, and status reporting within established systems and processes.
• Conduct post-incident reviews, document root causes, and identify opportunities to improve products, processes, and customer outcomes.
• Support the development of escalation criteria, critical account pathways, performance metrics, and scalable operational processes for the Critical Account Lead program.

• Bachelor's degree in Healthcare, Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in technical support, escalation management, technical account management, customer success, program management, or related customer-facing technical roles.
• Experience managing high-severity customer issues that require coordination across multiple teams, products, or business functions.
• Knowledge of healthcare technology environments, hospital IT operations, or medical device technologies.
• Experience working with networking technologies and HL7 integrations.
• Proficiency with program and case management tools such as Service Now, Salesforce, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, or similar platforms.

We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $96,000 - $132,000.The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position.

We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range…