Dir. , Technical Project Management

Job Description

The Director, Technical Project Management — Enterprise Programs & Market Activation leads the orchestration and activation of divisional, enterprise & global strategic initiatives. The role ensures coordinated program governance, market readiness, and measurable adoption outcomes are realised, while connecting product and value team priorities, technology delivery, and market activation activities.

This role translates highly strategic, complex intiatives which impact multiple teams into executable launch and operational plans, managing cross-enterprise dependencies, and ensuring markets are prepared to adopt and realize value from strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as primary technical delivery lead and for program, project, activation, and commercial stakeholders for prioritised projects and intiatives.

• Develop and execute market-readiness and activation strategies including training, enablement, localized launch plans, and go-to-market coordination.

• Establish and run program governance, steering committees, and decision forums with key stakeholders.

• Maintain project roadmaps, dependency matrices, integration plans, milestone tracking, and go/no‑go criteria.

• Translate technical integration risks and vendor dependencies into business-facing decisions and mitigation plans.

• Coordinate deployment readiness: cutover/rollback planning, operational runbooks, and post-launch validation focused on market impacts.

• Drive change management and adoption: communications, stakeholder engagement, training curricula, and measurement of adoption KPIs.

• Work with Portfolio and Product teams to prioritize initiatives based on strategic value, market readiness, and resource capacity.

• Manage strategic partners and vendor deliverables across multiple markets; ensure SLAs and integration timelines are met.

• Lead, mentor, and manage 1–2 project managers to embed consistent practices and drive predictability.

• Report program status, risks, and value realization to senior leadership and adjust plans based on outcomes.

Education Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree (Business Administration, Project/Program Management, IT, Engineering, or similar)

• Minimum 10 years of experience in program or portfolio management delivering global, cross-functional initiatives, including market activation or commercial launches.

• Proven experience influencing senior stakeholders, running governance forums, and coordinating across markets and vendors.

• Technical fluency (software delivery lifecycle, APIs/integration concepts, cloud concepts, release orchestration) sufficient to coordinate technical teams and surface integration risks.

• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile certification or SFIA-aligned capability preferred

Core Competencies

• Executive stakeholder influence and governance

• Program orchestration and multi-workstream dependency management

• Market readiness planning and adoption/change management

• Technical integration risk identification and mitigation

• Vendor and partner management across global markets

• Metrics-driven value realization and benefits tracking

• Leadership and capability building for junior team members

Required Skills:

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

Preferred Skills:

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The salary range for this role is

$173,200.00 - $272,600.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

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.

You can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

05/29/2026

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