**Job Description** **Join Our Team as the Associate Director of Digital External Manufacturing & Supply Chain!** Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for driving digital transformation in manufacturing? Our Company is on the lookout for a dynamic External Manufacturing Digital Product Manager to become a key part of our Digital Manufacturing Organization within the Supply Chain Planning Product Line. Come and join our journey to innovate and connect with our global partners to enable end to end visibility of our products ensuring our Company delivers quality compliant supply to our patients. In this pivotal role, you will lead the charge in enhancing our External Manufacturing Digital Capabilities, collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders and Digital Value Teams to deliver our ambitious yearly planning goals and long-term strategic plans. If you have a proven track record in managing complex relationships, strategic planning, defining business capability, and launching impactful digital solutions, we want to hear from you! Join us in shaping the future of manufacturing at our Company, where your expertise will help us realize value and drive transformational initiatives across our Digital Manufacturing Value teams. **Responsibilities** + Work cross functionally across Digital Manufacturing Value Teams and Business functions on alignment and execution of transformational program requirements and capability delivery to support External Manufacturing Operating Units + Collaborate with external manufacturers to identify digital transformation opportunities and implement solutions that enhance supply chain performance. + Manage the evolution, execution, and schedule of the External Manufacturing Digital Roadmap, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and divisional strategic initiatives. + Conduct thorough requirement gathering sessions with stakeholders and Value Teams to identify and document business needs to be enabled through digital capability + Utilize project management methodologies to plan, execute, monitor programs, and capture demand ensuring alignment with yearly Hoshin goals and five-year plans. + Foster a culture of continuous improvement by identifying inefficiencies and implementing best practices within the supply chain and manufacturing processes that can be supported by digital solutions + Measure and report on value realization from digital initiatives, ensuring that projects deliver expected financial and operational benefits. + Lead and support digital capability process design sessions and/or application testing **Preferred Experience and Skills:** + Preferred supply chain or pharmaceutical manufacturing process experience to help inform supply new chain visibility capability processes, new capability build and enhance production data integration. + Experience leveraging Lean, Six Sigma or MPS methodologies to drive end to end cross functional process optimization and digital enablement + Experience with Cloud and Enterprise software tools like SAP, MES, PI, Veeva, Power BI, and LIMS + Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, Manufacturing Production Scheduling (MPS)). + Experience influencing without direct authority, navigating complex or matrix organizations, and successfully networking and forming partnerships with cross-functional teams **Qualifications and Experience** + Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience in Business Information Systems, Computer Science, Supply Chain Management, Biomedical or Chemical Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field. + Minimum of 5 years of experience in supply chain planning, manufacturing operations, program management, or delivering digital solutions, preferably within the pharmaceutical industry. + Strong analytical problem-solving skills and ability to independently develop innovative solutions for complex problems. + Proven strategic thinking, decision making and strategic planning skills with a proven record of program execution + Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with a globally distributed team + Demonstrate understanding in change execution, strategy development and value realization. Current Employees apply HERE (https://wd5.myworkday.com/msd/d/task/1422$6687.htmld) Current Contingent Workers apply HERE (https://wd5.myworkday.com/msd/d/task/1422$4020.htmld) **US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:** Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here (https://survey.sogosurvey.com/r/aCdfqL) if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process. As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. 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Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts (https://www.msdprivacy.com/us/en/CCPA-notice/) **U.S. Hybrid Work Model** Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”. The salary range for this role is $139,600.00 - $219,700.00 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 **Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully** Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. 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Please, no phone calls or emails. **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 **Required Skills:** Business Administration, Business Decisions, Digital Manufacturing, Digital Transformation, Management Process, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Processes, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Supply Chain Optimization, Supply Chain Performance, Supply Change Management, Supply Management **Preferred Skills:** **Job Posting End Date:** 07/9/2025 ***A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day** **BEFORE** **the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day** **BEFORE** **the job posting end date.** **Requisition ID:** R345591