Senior Data Scientist, Integrated Supply Chain - Remote position

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. 

Baxter Healthcare Corporation offers an outstanding chance to create a real difference in global healthcare. As a Senior Data Scientist in our Coordinated Supply Chain group, you will lead the development of advanced analytics and AI solutions from idea to deployment. This role supports our mission to Save and Sustain Lives with data-driven innovation.

The Senior Data Scientist, Integrated Supply chain position is fully remote.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Find opportunities for using company data to drive innovative and scalable machine learning solutions that address complex business challenges.
• Develop and implement strategies to improve operational efficiency, automate decision-making, improve customer outcomes, and optimize prioritisation through key insights that enable decision-making.
• Apply advanced analytics to evaluate organizational performance, simulate potential impacts of strategic changes, and support initiatives across domains such as predictive modeling, forecasting, classification, and recommendation systems.
• Develop custom machine learning models and algorithms tailored to business needs, applying these models to large datasets to generate actionable insights and support strategic decision-making.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy, monitor, and maintain ML models in production environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and compliance with enterprise standards.
• Build and maintain scalable data infrastructure to support both real-time and batch decisioning, bringing to bear cloud-native tools and platforms to optimize performance and cost.
• Engage with business collaborators to translate requirements into technical solutions, providing thought leadership and mentorship on analytical approaches and data strategy.
• Ensure robust model governance, documentation, and performance benchmarking while maintaining compliance with Responsible AI and data privacy standards.
• Establish and maintain business insight communication flows for different levels of the organization.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in math, statistics, engineering, or a related STEM field, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated excellent leadership, interpersonal, and critical thinking skills.
• APICs desirable, with a minimum of 5 years related experience in supply chain or equivalent analytical experience.
• Proven track record working in cross-functional product/engineering environments.
• Minimum 5 years experience in supply chain, or equivalent analytical experience
• Executive storytelling; ability to translate technical results into decisions and outcomes.
• Experience/Certifications in analytics tools and frameworks like Python, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Power Queries, Smartsheets, etc.
• Experience in at least two or more relevant domains (pricing, contracting, demand forecasting, supply-chain optimization, commercial analytics, patient/customer experience).
• Demonstrated ability to influence decision-making in a cross-functional environment using financial/technical assessments and soft skills.

Preferred:

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in math, statistics, engineering, or a related STEM area.

Proficiencies Required

• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
• Communication
• Business Insight
• Collaboration & Teamwork
• Dealing with Ambiguity

Decision Making

• Define and evaluate Coordinated Business Planning scenarios.
• Decide inventory and service-level trade-offs to help drive central initiatives.
• Govern planning models and analytics.
• Translate analytics into business decisions, framing insights, recommending actions, and quantifying financial or operational impact for executives.

Join us in this ambitious role and contribute to crafting flawless, world-class healthcare solutions that make a difference in patients' lives!

We understand that 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 salary range for this position is $125,440 - $172,480 annually, which reflects base salary as well as estimated target payout under the Management Incentive Compensation Plan. Individual pay will be determined based upon skills, expertise and experience, and the incentive, which is contingent upon company and individual performance outcomes. For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an interview.

This posting is for a current existing vacancy within our organization. We are actively seeking qualified candidates to fill this open position. If you are interviewed for this position, we will advise you within 45 days of the interview 
as to whether or not you were successful in obtaining the position. Information submitted as part of the job application process will be kept on file for 3 years from the date of submission in accordance with legislative requirements.

As part of our recruitment process, Baxter Corporation may use AI tools to assist screening candidates and assist in evaluating candidate qualifications. All final hiring decisions are made by the hiring manager and recruitment team.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities globally. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please click on the link here and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information.

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