Specialist, Technical Product Management

Job Description

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 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 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.

 

Responsibilities

 

As a Product Analyst within the Integrated Trial Monitoring Product, you will work across our area supporting programs which enable our business partners to operate without obstacles. You will build expertise on system validations and will have the opportunity to learn the end-to-end clinical process.

 

You will work with stakeholders at all levels across our company to uncover and communicate user needs. You will be instrumental in planning, designing, and conducting testing activities, engaging support teams, and compiling critical content for training and communication to users.

 

You will apply a structured approach to discover, document, and manage business process and stakeholder needs. You will also gather insight into user journey, behaviour, motivation, unarticulated problems, unmet needs and pain points.

 

You will work side by side with Business Stakeholders, Product Users, Product Managers, and Technical Leads and you will be providing close support to ensure that the IT solutions are both valuable and viable.

 

Additionally, you will:

 

• Gather documentation related to the business process in clinical domain, document business/user needs and trace requests and responses to requests

• Continuously broaden your expertise in the Clinical Trials business domain

• Leverage business and user insights to form solutioning ideas and make prioritization decisions to maximize the value of the IT solutions

• Work with the business to identify business value for our initiatives and determine the best way to measure that our solutions achieve the targeted business value

• Be accountable for enablement, adoption, and growth of the Integrated Trial Monitoring product

• Build knowledge of the existing solutions through IT communities and leverage these for the benefit the business stakeholders

• Partner with squad members including but not limited to scrum masters, technical lead(s) and development team to manage high-quality product delivery leveraging Agile SDLC methodology

• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure a healthy backlog of well-formed epics, features and user stories are maintained, which align with the overall roadmap and serve as requirements for the delivery squad

• Follow and apply the Product Model principles to maximize the business value

 

Education:

• Minimum - H.S. Diploma

• Preferred - Bachelors

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Required Skills:

Animal Vaccination, Asset Management, Benefits Management, Biopharmaceutical Industry, Business Documentation, Business Management, Business Processes, Business Process Management (BPM), Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Decision Making, Foster Innovation, Global Health, Management System Development, Medical Prescriptions, Product Lifecycle, Product Management, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs

Preferred Skills:

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The salary range for this role is

$87,300.00 - $137,400.00

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.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

N/A

Job Posting End Date:

09/6/2026

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