Specialist-GPM Data Analyst

Job Description

Required Skills:

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Biopharmaceutical Industry, Business Intelligence (BI), Change Management, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Marketing Operations, Master Data Management (MDM), Measurement Analysis, Oracle Database, Project Management, Solution Architecture, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Waterfall Model

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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 Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our companys’ IT operating model, Tech Centers 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 Centers.

Role Overview

Data Strategy, Governance and knowledge management team within the Central Data & Analytics Office (CD&AO) organization serves at the core of our master data management process, focused on enabling the value of our master data portfolio via expert data  management, change management, data governance and end-to-end coordination across Business, Operations and IT stakeholders. GPM Data Analysts are critical to the Data Strategy & Governance model, supporting product launch excellence, sales incentive planning, and representative product detailing. Product Master data is a prerequisite for linking key attributes in data deliverables to usable product information (e.g., NDC mapping).

The GPM Data Analyst will play a key role in enabling value from our product data assets via expert data management and governance, functional area subject matter expertise, and change management leadership. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience working with cross-functional teams, managing stakeholder relationships, successfully working through ambiguity, excellent communication and people skills, a problem-solver mindset, and approaching the role with intellectual curiosity.

• This role will provide the participant with exposure to the various business areas within the IT and Human Health organizations including marketing and field support. Additionally, the candidate will gain experience working within a mature master data management system and will be part of the team to upgrade the system to a modernized solution.

Key Responsibilities Will Include:

• ·         Working collaboratively with Business, Operations, and IT stakeholders to ensure data management processes support key business use cases.
• ·         Processing the monthly formulary files which are required by the IAM organization. Ensuring the files are delivered on time, execution of quality checks and processing overrides as outlined by IAM.
• ·         Coordination and processing of the annual frozen price data provided by IQVIA.
• ·         Management of market definition additions, changes and annual reviews that support Sales Reporting, Commercial Analytics and Contracting. Downstream consumers use the market definitions to group product information to support business use cases.
• ·         Market Definition processing for the Sales Force Automation (SFA) group requires an additional legal component that must be managed. The SFA Group also requires additions and modifications due to Merck product FDA approvals. This activity requires hosting monthly meetings with business stakeholders to review upcoming changes and solicit all necessary approvals.
• ·         Management of the quarterly IQVIA diagnosis code file which is a pre-requisite for managing the internal indication and product mappings in support of Project Apollo which is used for Oncology related SIP activities.
• ·         Participation in all aspects of the Systems Development Lifecycle for GPM releases including providing business requirements, creation of user acceptance testing documents, execution of UAT and the production of all necessary documents. Coordination with downstream consumers for testing is a requirement.
• ·         Maintenance of all GPM related documentation including SOPs (including an annual review), presentations, and website documentation.
• ·         Participation in product launch planning which requires attendance at weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly meetings, including the NDC Council.
• ·         Serve as the subject matter expert for the product data domain, supporting downstream consumers and their use of the product master data.

Required experience:

• ·         Minimum of 3 years’ experience in data management, sales or marketing operations, and/or a sales or marketing role within the biopharmaceutical or life science industry.
• ·     Excellent project management and communication skills.
• ·     Experience managing stakeholders and communicating with vendors.

Preferred experience:

• 5 or more years’ experience in data management, sales or marketing operations, and/or a sales or marketing role within the biopharmaceutical or life science industry.
• Experience utilizing master data and data & analytics focused IT solutions, specifically Informatica MDM (including IDD and Hierarchy Manager).
• SQL and advanced knowledge of SQL tools (e.g., SQL Navigator or Toad).

Primary Skills:

• SAP S/4 HAHA, Informatica MDM, Confluence, Collibra SQL, AWS cloud services (S3, EC2, RDS, Redshift), Oracle RDBMS, JIRA, Git
• Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing

Secondary Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Stakeholder management and facilitation
• Ability to work with global teams across time zones
• Data Governance and Privacy

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, 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.

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Job Posting End Date:

05/28/2026

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