Critical Account Lead

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter we believe every personregardless of who they are or where they are fromdeserves 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 jobyou will find purpose and pride.

Your Role at Baxter

As a Critical Account Lead you will serve as the single point of accountability for Baxters 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.

Youll 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 Baxters relationships with healthcare customers.

What Youll Do

• 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.

What Youll Bring

• Bachelors 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 ServiceNow 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 $96000 - $ estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon location skills and expertise experience and other relevant factors. 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.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one as well as insurance coverage for basic life accident short-term and long-term disability and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) with options for employee contributions and company matching. We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts educational assistance programs and time-off benefits such as paid holidays paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service family and medical leaves of absence and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits the Employee Discount Program the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and childcare benefits. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our additional information regarding Baxter US Benefits please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits Baxter

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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.

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