Transportation Analyst

Vantive : A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our $5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre.

Each of us are driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

Your role at Baxter

As a member of the Supply Chain Transportation team, the Transportation Analyst will support leaders, subject matter authorities, and project managers from across the organization on critical initiatives assuring successful execution of the operational business strategy of the team.

This role will work on high-priority strategic initiatives in alignment with the business strategy and long-term goals by providing fact-based data analysis and innovative analytic solutions to support decision making, new initiatives and process improvement recommendations.

This will include crafting, augmenting, or modifying complex metrics to identify means of tracking data quality, completeness, and trends and will also be responsible for Baxter Supply Chain Network design and modeling.

What you'll be doing

• Develop, model and balance service areas for private fleet optimization
• Develop and maintain patient delivery schedules
• Support field in problem solving and analysis to drive continuous improvements
• Assist in the development of policies and procedures
• Support training and daily activities for traffic specialists and department specialists
• Develop and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure and improve supply chain performance
• Create and update dashboards to support visualization and analysis of supply chain optimization outputs
• Build and validate network models, optimize scenarios, and assist in analysis of output to answer sophisticated supply chain questions
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis to address specific SC challenges
• Other duties as assigned

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, or related field
• Minimum of 1 year of transportation / supply chain analytics experience required
• Strong Microsoft Office skills is required
• Expertise in data management, data manipulation and analysis using tools such as Python, R and SQL
• Solid understanding of analytics tools such as Tableau Desktop and Server, Power BI
• Good understanding of ERP systems, TMS, WMS, Snowflake is preferred
• Knowledge of SQL, Python, ETL tools is preferred
• Ability to apply statistical techniques to analyze and interpret complex datasets
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Team player mentality with the capacity to lead and contribute to cross-function initiatives.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal direction and can work with an appreciable amount of latitude
• Excellent written and verbal communication as well as presentation skills. Able to read, write and speak English proficiently

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite.

This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission.

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