Merck & Co Hiring for Assoc Dir, Global Demand/ Tender Mgmt job in North Wales Full Time

Job Description

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics, and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.

Our Company Vaccines within Human Health is a guiding division in our company and represents a $10B business, with 10 in-line vaccines and at least 3-pipeline vaccines that address infectious disease in the areas of HPV, pneumococcal and pediatrics. We are accountable for tens of millions of doses of vaccines for infants, adolescents, and adults around the world. This role lies within our Global Vaccines Commercial Operations Team, who enable and accelerate business growth through an increasing focus on operations, launch and demand/supply excellence and key capability development.

The Global Demand Manager role, reporting to the Director, Global Supply & Demand Excellence, under Global Vaccines Commercial Operations partners globally & cross-functionally to manage integrated business processes for Vaccines which include Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), Demand Forecasting, Tender Forecasting, Supply Coordination / Communication. The team also interacts cross divisionally with Global Vaccines Marketing, our Manufacturing Division Vaccines Global Supply Planning and GHH Vaccines Finance to effectively provide a balanced picture of Vaccines demand and supply outlook to enable just-in-time tactical & strategic decisions for the business.

The Global Demand Manager maintains a tight control of the global demand plans submitted by the markets by ensuring integrity of the bottom-up demand planning process and validation of commercial and strategic assumptions with Global Vaccines Marketing, Regional Commercial directors, Regional Planning, Global Supply Planning, and GHH Vaccines Finance.

In this role, the employee establishes and runs a monthly routine analysis

and reviews key highlights and metrics of the globally aggregated demand, while partnering with the global commercial teams and finance. By this, we will ensure that that demand signals sent to our Manufacturing Division for manufacturing reflects the most likely scenario in the 3-to-36-month planning horizon in alignment with commercial expectations.

Primary Assignments:

• Ensure monthly submission and aggregation of demand is executed timely and as per demand planning standards
• Ensure all global demand reports and analytics are published timely and portioned with all stakeholders
• Facilitate dedicated brand Command Center (CC), which are cross-functional meetings with Global Marketing, Finance and End-to-End Supply Planning where demand and supply opportunities/risks are identified, and actions taken.
• Partner with RCLs and Key market BUDs to ensure opportunities are captured systematically in planning systems/identify demand signals that need to be strategically planned for above market to ensure guide times to minimize lead time impact on accessing potential upsides to market demand forecasts Analyze and review the regional demand outliers and follow up with regional / market teams to address as needed

Analyze, review, and simulate the global risks and opportunities in the event of new product launches, product LoE (Loss of Exclusivity) and/or event management

• Build cross divisional bridges and 1) Partner with GHH Vaccines Finance for the reconciliation of Financial and Demand Plans during the quarterly financial reviews, 2) Partner with Global Commercial teams during the long-term planning and ensure alignment of applicable demand signals
• Act as a Demand Management SME and 1) Represent demand management in cross-divisional projects and propose/direct new ways of working, and 2) partner closely with our Manufacturing Division Digital on the development of demand management tools, reports, capabilities, and processes
• Monthly preparation, facilitation & steering of the US and Global Brand Integrated Business Plan (IBP) meetings that feed into the Vaccines Executive IBP meetings. In the IBP meetings the demand management lead will provide an update on the month over month demand changes as well as the outlook / potential demand gaps over the 36 months planning cycle.
• Analytics on brands that are on global allocation – performance against allocation and within franchise trade off decision assessments.
• Perform NGO Tender & HQ Strategic Supply Reserve forecasting
• Supply assessment and approval of all Vaccines Tenders within t
• Provide sponsorship to GHH Vaccines finance as required to promote financial planning and & evaluation over the short- and long-term horizons

Qualifications

Education Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree
• MBA preferred

Knowledge and Skills:

• 5 years of significant vaccine/ pharmaceutical industry knowledge

• Strong partnership and communication skills cross-divisionally
• Management skills to work with senior executives of the company through complex situations
• Strong analytical skills

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Supply chain knowledge
• Business acumen
• Country / Regional knowledge
• Systems knowledge, preferably Rapid return, SAP, Excel and PowerBI

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In accordance with Managers’ Policy – Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.

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Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). -Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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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

Requisition ID:R257881