This is where you save and sustain lives
At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.
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Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.
Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.
Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.
About Baxter
Baxter provides a broad portfolio of essential Renal and Hospital products, including home, acute and in-centre dialysis; sterile IV solutions; infusion systems and devices; parenteral nutrition; surgery products and anaesthetics; and pharmacy automation, software and compounding services.
The company’s global footprint and the critical nature of its products and services play a key role in expanding access to healthcare in emerging and developed countries. Baxter’s employees worldwide are building upon the company’s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs to advance the next generation of healthcare innovations that enable patient care.
Driven by our culture and our values, we lead with insights, ideas and outcomes meaningful to our business success. We are experts in our field and we continue to learn and grow every day, striving to learn more about our customers and the world around us. Our way of working is open and collaborative with a focus on building trusted and ongoing relationships with all stakeholders.
The Role
Reporting to the HR Manager- ANZ, the role will be based in Mt Wellington, Auckland, and will support a wide range of business functions with employees located across Australia and New Zealand.. As part of our high performing HR function, you will work alongside your stakeholders to support them with strategic advice, coaching, diversity and inclusion, leadership capability, employment relations, talent development, reward, change management and many more initiatives to drive improvements in employee engagement and support our mission of saving and sustaining lives.
Role responsibilities include (but not limited to):
Partner with the Business to support and drive a positive employee experience an organisational culture.
Act as a coach to provide advice and counsel to managers and leaders throughout the business.
Work strategically with senior and line management in aligning people practices with overall business objectives
Initiate and drive HR projects as necessary to support the HR function and Business.
Provide an effective employee relations service, on matters related to disciplinary & grievance ensuring an equitable treatment of employees.
Support the HR Business Partnering team and wider HR team as required, specifically with matters requiring NZ employment expertise
Leading Enterprise Agreement re-negotiations
About You
A great can-do attitude, out of box thinking and a natural passion for working with people will make you the ideal candidate for this role. This role reports offshore so you will need to have a strong HR generalist background and bring with you at least 5 years’ experience working within the context of NZ employment law and be comfortable with balancing working autonomously but also collaboratively with the ANZ HR team.
You will also possess strong process management skills and the ability to influence and negotiate and build strong cross functional relationships through your inclusive and collaborative style. The above competencies coupled several years of HR generalist experience within a multinational company and an HR or related tertiary qualification would be preferred.
Experience within a pharmaceutical/healthcare organisation would be seen as distinctly advantageous but is not a prerequisite.
Why Baxter?
At Baxter ANZ, we are focused on being a Best Place to Work where our people can be their authentic self, feel valued and respected. We are committed to a culture where all employees can collaborate and work together effectively.
Relationships are a key component in how we operate in Baxter and we share the common traits of being reliable, ethical, caring, having empathy, actively listening to our colleagues as well as being open minded to new ideas and perspectives. Baxter is an organisation that makes inclusion and diversity a priority and that seeks to promote and improve gender equality in the workplace.
We are proud to be recognised among the top 120 companies for the seventh consecutive year as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality for delivering support structures for working families; stronger actions to address pay inequalities; and strategic recruitment and promotion practices that help to encourage the full participation of women at work. We are also pleased to be the winner of the 2021 & 2019 Women in MedTech Champion Company Award.
Baxter recognises the importance of flexible work arrangements, and we offer remote and hybrid arrangements so that our employees can have work/life balance and support their health & wellbeing.
We are proud to introduce BaxFlex, where we maintain our workplace flexibility philosophy while also realising the benefits of connecting in-person on-site. At Baxter, we offer a dynamic and future focused work environment offering workplace flexibility, additional annual leave and a strong value driven culture.
Baxter is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by law
Reasonable Accommodations
Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please send an e-mail to Americas_TTA@baxter.com and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information.
Recruitment Fraud Notice
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