Merck & Co Hiring for Senior Specialist, Sr Specialist, Data Visualization, Business Value Delivery job in North Wales Full Time

Job Description

Our Human Health Digital, Data, and Analytics team is innovating how we appreciate our patients and their needs. Working cross functionally we are inventing new ways of communicating, measuring, and interacting with our customers and patients leveraging digital, data and analytics.

Are you passionate about helping people see, comprehend, and interact with data? You will take part in an exciting journey to help transform our organization to be the premier data-driven company by 2023.

-As a Sr. Specialist, Data Visualization, Business Value Delivery, you will design and develop high-quality compelling data visualization products to drive programmatic decision making, learning and adaptation for the field activity and performance reporting. You will partner with stakeholders to understand user needs, data use cases and develop clear and compelling data products that transform data into interactive and dynamic visualizations to convey analytical insights, demonstrate results, and convey analytical findings. You will create comprehension and appreciation around user needs, stated and unstated, for the Human Health Commercial Analytics team.

Position Tasks:

• Creating analytical tools that enable users to assess progress towards KPIs as well as to answer critical business questions for the Oncology business unit.
• Manage project timelines to enable accurate reporting and functionality during enterprise system transformations.
• Manage diverse projects and processes within Sales, Marketing, and Operations Teams
• Advocate data quality, integrity and reliability throughout the department by designing and promoting best practices.
• Direct business requirement sessions with stakeholders
• Coordinate with IT/vendor on business requirements for new reporting needs to promote field sales and HQ reporting
• Test and deploy new capabilities using BI applications
• Create new visualizations to enable informed business decisions on strategy and execution
• Vendor relationship management ensuring business requirements are clearly articulated and executed
• Provide BI training to stakeholders to foster increased comprehension and utilization of the information provided

Education:

BS (or equivalent) in Data Science, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, IT, or an equivalent scientific/commercial discipline.

An MBA is desirable

Previous knowledge with data curation and management in a relevant life-science sector (pharmaceutical, academia, or healthcare).

Relevant knowledge in data visualization, infographics, and/or interactive visual storytelling.

Knowledge and skills:

• 3-5 years of knowledge delivering business intelligence solutions
• 3-5 years working knowledge in Qlik / PowerBI /and other data visualization technologies.
• Knowledge in Pharma and or Biotech Industry is a plus.
• Proven analytics and problem-solving skills
• Strong presentation and partnership skills and can communicate all aspects of the job requirements
• Effective communication skills with an ability to process technical information and translate clearly and concisely to broad audiences
• Strong judgment, prioritization, and decision-making skills, with appreciation of broader context for Oncology Business Unit
• Innovative thinking, with affinity toward experimentation and appropriate risk taking
• Strong comprehension of all compliance-related concepts, including the laws, regulations and policies that govern pharmaceutical marketing and sales activities.
• Knowledge of leveraging and managing third party vendors and contractors.
• Self-motivation, proactivity, and ability to work objectively with minimum direction
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills, with ability to navigate a complex matrix environment and organize/prioritize work efficiently and effectively.
• Demonstrated ability to work with and guide with diverse groups of work colleagues and positively manage ambiguity.

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.

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.

NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS

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.

If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

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:
Flex Time, Remote Work

Shift:
Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:
No

Hazardous Material(s):
n/a

Requisition ID:R240901