Associate Director, TCO Lead

Job Description

Associate Director, Project Management – TCO Lead

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, 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 organisation 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 Technology Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's’ IT operating model, Tech centres are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech centres.

Role Overview

Lead portfolio strategy and execution to maximize value across programs and projects. Partner with senior leaders, finance, and delivery teams to prioritize investments, allocate resources, manage risks, and report portfolio performance.

What will you do in this role

• Lead planning cycles, scenario modeling, and governance forums; prepare decision materials for leadership.
• Maintain portfolio KPIs, dashboards, and regular reporting.
• Collaborate with finance on budgeting, forecasting, and value tracking.
• Monitor portfolio risks and dependencies; work with product line leads leads to resolve issues.

What should you have

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years in portfolio, program, product management, strategy, or finance; 3+ years in a senior or leadership role.
• Strong financial acumen (business cases, forecasting, ROI/NPV).
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proficiency with PM and analytics tools (e.g., Jira, Planview, Excel, Power BI).

Preferred

• MBA or advanced degree
• Industry experience (e.g., biopharma, SaaS, financial services).
• Portfolio/program certifications (PfMP, PMP, Safe).

Who we are

 We are known as well-known org Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

 Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

#HYDIT2025

Required Skills:

Measurement Analysis, Portfolio, Programme, and Project Support, Program Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Waterfall Model

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Associate Director, Project Management – TCO Lead

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, 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 organisation 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 Technology Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's’ IT operating model, Tech centres are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech centres.

Role Overview

Lead portfolio strategy and execution to maximize value across programs and projects. Partner with senior leaders, finance, and delivery teams to prioritize investments, allocate resources, manage risks, and report portfolio performance.

What will you do in this role

• Lead planning cycles, scenario modeling, and governance forums; prepare decision materials for leadership.
• Maintain portfolio KPIs, dashboards, and regular reporting.
• Collaborate with finance on budgeting, forecasting, and value tracking.
• Monitor portfolio risks and dependencies; work with product line leads leads to resolve issues.

What should you have

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years in portfolio, program, product management, strategy, or finance; 3+ years in a senior or leadership role.
• Strong financial acumen (business cases, forecasting, ROI/NPV).
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proficiency with PM and analytics tools (e.g., Jira, Planview, Excel, Power BI).

Preferred

• MBA or advanced degree
• Industry experience (e.g., biopharma, SaaS, financial services).
• Portfolio/program certifications (PfMP, PMP, Safe).

Who we are

 We are known as well-known org Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

 Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

#HYDIT2025

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Job Posting End Date:

04/28/2026

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