Associated Director, Technical Product Manager – Trial Data Management

Merck • Rahway, NJ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Opportunity
· Join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130+ year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
· Be part of an organization driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
· Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Our organization partners closely with our Company’s Research & Development (R&D) organization to provide innovative solutions that enable new products and capabilities within the Research & Development. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.
To enable this, we are seeking an experienced Associate Director, Technical Product Management supporting the Clinical Data Management ecosystem to join our team. The product manager will partner with R&D and other organizations to define the roadmap, own and prioritize the backlog and be the central contact between the business and scum team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 8+ years of relevant work experience, with at least 2+ years of demonstrated Product Management experience using Agile methodologies
• Experience with product management and agile methodology
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with a globally dispersed team
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm and innovation
• Proficiency in Requirements Management
• Strong Stakeholder Relationship Management skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Clinical operational and clinical data collection processes and technologies such as
• Veeva Clinical Data Management Products (Veeva EDC and CDB)
• Randomization and Trial Supply Management RTSM / IRT
• Operational Data Model (ODM)
• Clinical Data Reporting
• Experience working in a GXP environment and familiar with 21 CFR Part 11, ICH-GCP guidelines

Responsibilities

• Lead the Clinical Data Collection applications serving as the main point of contact within the Clinical Development and Digital Solutions organization
• Apply Product Model principles to maximize business value through a strong business-IT partnership, based on a deep understanding of the clinical business domain.
• Maintain and prioritize a healthy backlog of well-formed epics, features, and user stories that align with the overall roadmap and serve as requirements for the delivery squads.
• Coordinate the work of squad members, including scrum masters, technical leads, and development teams, to manage high-quality product delivery using Agile SDLC methodology.
• Provide an escalation point for delivery issues or deconflicting dependencies that affect multiple teams across or within product lines.
• Capture, convey, and manage risks, impediments, assumptions, and dependencies for execution, focusing on reducing impact early and often.
• Partner with UX, Architecture, Cloud, and other enterprise teams, as well as Service Line and Migration/Sustainment teams, to define, implement, and extend required capabilities and services to address new business needs.
• Manage and lead a team of 2-3 internal employees and functionally lead 15-25 contractors.
• Establish, track, and monitor Value Realization metrics linked to Value Team Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Measure and manage the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), including vendor negotiations, making informed decisions to optimize TCO, and leading prioritization discussions to meet financial targets.

Benefits

• The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

What This Job Offers

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