Merck & Co Hiring for Associate Director, Data Management Adoption Lead job in Rahway Full Time

Job Description

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

The Central Data and Analytics organization in our Company has a mission ” To establish a world class data and analytics-ecosystem for our data practitioners by building-easy to use and highly valued-products and-services “.- Critical part of this mission is to develop products and services that support data management and governance activities that enhance quality, context, and access to data. Data Management and Governance is a Value Team under CD&A unit that is in charge to promote and implement Data Transformation at our Company in partnership with other IT and Business groups.- To accomplish this, a Data Management and Governance framework is established, and this team is implementing a set of innovative tools and process to underpin this Data Transformation. As part of the journey, having a solid adoption strategy is one important pillar to ensure consistency, fit for purpose and business value added.

Incumbent will join Center D&A organization under Data Management and Governance Value Team and will collaborate across the organization with D&A leaders in divisional IT and business to achieve desired outcomes. (S)he will partner with Product Managers and Key stakeholders to shape out the best way to engage business team to increase awareness, adoption and usage relate to the Products on this specific Value Team and work as an ambassador of the entire Product placemat from CD&A.

Successful candidate for this position will have significant opportunity to increase reuse of digital and data products in a proper governance and compliant manner. Success in this role will have big impact on data driven culture within the organization by enhancing adoption and significantly increasing reuse of data.

Primary activities/responsibilities:

• Engage with key stakeholders across the enterprise to understand the capability needs in Data Management and Governance Value Team.
• Work with Product Line head to define and implement the Go to Market strategy for the Products.
• Responsible for Customer Engagement & Relationship Management, establishing and measuring Customer Satisfaction KPIs.
• Define Adoption OKR’s and work with our Company’s executive team to provide Status, Roadmap Updates and break strategic ask to tangible features in joint effort with Product Line Leaders.
• Support Building of Business case, Profit Planning and help stakeholders in creating adoption Roadmap.
• Responsible for leading and coaching a team responsible for Data Management and Governance Adoption across our Company.
• Responsible for defining and implementing Adoption Life Cycle Process for Business teams.
• Define Adoption self-service templates, Process and FAQ’s.
• Create and develop content to Train & educate end users.
• Define the marketing strategy for the Data Management and Governance Value Team.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

Education Minimum:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Sciences or Information Technology is required

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years in engineering role developing digital products or services.-
• Business outcomes driven leadership with ability to connect value to investments and relentless focus on actions that lead to better value and ROI.
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills with ability to align the organization on conflict points.
• Facilitation, marketing, and persuasion skills to help stakeholder community understand the value of product line offerings and help them adopt the offerings.
• Active coach and mentor whose goals are to grow and maximize the squads’ potential.
• Demonstrated leadership experience implementing digital and data transformation on Data & Analytics for large enterprises to assist data governance, metadata management,– data access management and data marketplace.
• Strong knowledge of Data Management and Governance practices and modern technologies to support these practices.
• Solid understanding of good data engineering and management practices and ability to create a vision that enables easy access to analytics ready data across enterprise.
• Sound understanding and demonstrated experience in working with industry standard solutions in the space of data governance including Data cataloguing, Data Marketplace, Data Access, monitoring and improvement.

Preferred Skills:

• Working knowledge in Data and Analytics products offered by AWS.
• Experience in one or more of the following solutions.
  • Collibra Data Catalog
  • Immuta Data Access
• Experience in end-to-end data management practices including ingestion, integration, data governance, harmonization, and publishing.
• Experience in data operations.

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

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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Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:
No

Travel Requirements:
25%

Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid

Shift:
1st – Day

Valid Driving License:
Yes

Hazardous Material(s):
N/A

Required Skills:
Metrology, Program Management, Project Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Relationships

Preferred Skills:
Brand Strategy, Brand Strategy, Business Case Analyses, Business Case Development, Business Transformation, Candidate Relationship Management, Coaching, Communication, Content Development, Creativity, Customer Engagement, Customer Satisfaction, Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Transformation, Data Warehouse Software, Digital Analytics, FISMA, Information Management, Information Systems Project Management, Information Technology Management, Information Technology Strategies, IT Business Management, IT Governance, Leadership {+ 11 more}

Requisition ID:R240331