Associate Director - Digital Transformation

Merck • North Wales, PA

1d • $129,000 - $203,100 • Hybrid

About The Position

Are you passionate about building digital foundations that drive business outcomes, accelerate innovation, and fuel the future of AI, automation, and analytics? We are looking for an Associate Director, Digital Transformation to help build the digital foundation that will enable the next generation of AI-powered capabilities across Global Sourcing & Procurement. In this role, you will connect business processes, enterprise systems, and data into a unified experience that enables automation, analytics, and AI at scale. You will map how work moves across functions, systems, and teams, uncover opportunities to simplify and standardize how work is done, and create the foundations required for intelligent, AI-driven decision making. This is not a traditional transformation role. We are looking for a builder and systems thinker who can move seamlessly between business strategy, technology architecture, process optimization, and hands-on solution development. You will help shape how users interact with our digital ecosystem while establishing the process, system, and data frameworks that will power future AI capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Business, or a related field. Advanced degree is a plus.
• 8+ years of experience in digital transformation, technology, analytics, process improvement, product management, consulting, or related disciplines.
• Experience working across enterprise platforms, data ecosystems, analytics solutions, and business processes to deliver end-to-end business outcomes.
• Hands-on experience with technologies such as SAP, ERP platforms, SQL, Databricks, Power Platform, Celonis, analytics solutions, or comparable technologies.
• Demonstrated experience building, implementing, or scaling digital solutions that improve business performance, user experience, operational efficiency, or data quality.
• Automation Systems
• Business Process Development
• Business Processes
• Business Process Optimization (BPO)
• Collaboration
• Data Analysis
• Digital Transformation
• Process Automations
• Process Improvements
• Process Optimization
• SAP Systems

Nice To Haves

• Business Strategies
• Data Analytics
• Enterprise Platforms
• Leadership
• Procurement

Responsibilities

• Map and connect the end-to-end ecosystem of processes, systems, data, analytics, and user experiences across Global Supplier Management & Procurement.
• Take an end-to-end view of how work flows across functions, systems, and teams, ensuring the overall user experience is optimized rather than individual processes or applications in isolation.
• Orchestrate the connection between business priorities, digital initiatives, reporting, applications, and our Databricks-powered data foundation to accelerate business value, automation, and future AI capabilities.
• Drive alignment, accountability, and performance across business, operations, and technology stakeholders by establishing transparent metrics and ensuring capabilities deliver expected business outcomes.
• Turn ideas into impact through hands-on development of prototypes, analytics, automation, and scalable solutions using SQL, Databricks, Power Platform, Celonis, SAP, and AI-enabled technologies.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits, including 401(k)
• paid holidays
• vacation
• compassionate and sick days
• annual bonus
• long-term incentive

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level