Role Overview:
Reporting directly to Human Health (HH) International IT Lead and accountable to APLT and market business leaders, you will ensure that technology, digital & data solutions and services meet the strategic and operational goals of AP HH activities. As the IT leader, you will closely partner with senior market leadership to shape and influence local business strategy and develop/maintain an enabling IT execution plan including technology, analytics and digital capabilities aligning with enterprise IT strategies and product roadmaps. Performance and achievement would be measured by business outcomes and impact.
What will you do :
As The IT Regional Leader, you will drive the realization of technology value through:
- A deep understanding of the business strategy with strong business acumen
- Continuous translation into a corresponding integrated technology and DDA strategy.
- Identification, implementation and realization of appropriate and right-sized technology and data solutions for the local market using standard capabilities as priorities or implement solutions with enterprise value view.
- Demonstrate and drive an enterprise mindset, including maximized IT investment value realization, through an optimized leveraging of technology standards and guardrails as defined by the IT value teams.
This leader will develop and manage the IT portfolio tied to and based on a continuous measurement of the business realization goals.
You will closely collaborate with regional capability leads and value team organizations to drive a global education of the market business dynamics and needs along with articulation of the optimal capability evolution in support of business strategy. You will model the One IT behavior and work closely with all partner IT organizations to meet both the business needs of the local market as well as enterprise standards. You will manage country IT teams and partner closely with regional market squad teams for in market deliveries as well as influencing priorities for Application Management , IT Risk Management and Security and Infrastructure representatives (dotted line reports).
As the IT Regional Lead, you will represent the full One IT organization on market-level and regional governance bodies, actively work with cross-functional teams to drive collaboration, efficiency and reusability.
You will assure full and continuous compliancy with regulatory and company requirements.
Main responsibilities
- Responsible for the strategic planning of digital capabilities with primary focus on commercial capabilities in support of sales, marketing and market access. The strategic planning will have a secondary focus on the enablement and simplification of digital capabilities such as collaboration, workplace services and corporate.
- Demonstrate matrix leadership of IT resources in other IT functions responsible for ensuring that all IT functions are successful in their delivery of services to internal customers. Key matrix IT partner functions include platform architecture, User Experience, software engineering, application support & maintenance, program management, information & data management, collaboration services, infrastructure services.
- Build, promote and develop a strong and highly engaged IT team that has the flexible skills in line with the fast-evolving business strategy. Proactively seek ways to improve team functioning, cohesiveness and effectiveness while assuring an optimal agile culture setting.
- Drive and maintain an in-depth understanding of the external local market technology skillsets relevant to our business strategy and build (in partnership with HR) corresponding early talent engagement models.
- Partner with local business to ensure the mapping and understanding of the external local healthcare ecosystem (including local standards as well as key data sources and data flows) and ecosystem stakeholders as an enabler for implementation of integrated healthcare and/or data insights solutions. Drive corresponding key partnerships from an technology and data angle.
- Provide guidance to others on implementing corporate practices while tailoring them to the country/divisions (including but not limited to cybersecurity best practices).
What should you have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Science or Business is required
- A demonstrated track record of success as a technology leader (minimum 5-10y experience) working with business leadership teams in pharmaceutical or other technology advanced industry with focus on driving technology and data strategy in a commercial environment. Demonstrated ability to prioritize, align and simplify.
- The candidate should understand go-to-market and customer engagement strategies, and have a working experience of Agile methodologies (Agile marketing preferred)
- Good understanding of the role of data and analytics in current business strategy along with understanding of key enabling data & analytics technologies.
- Knowledge/experience of technology development and deployment of innovative solutions in any business domain from conceptualization through delivery.
Knowledge/experience in Systems Development Life Cycles - The candidate must possess exceptionally well-developed interpersonal skills. Communication skills will be critical to this leader’s ability to interact, relationship, negotiate and effectively influence the local leaders.
- Demonstrated people leadership skills, team building, as well as skills that emphasize collaboration in a highly matrixed organization.
The ability to manage cross-divisional projects, coordinate projects and services across boundaries, and build effective cross-functional teams is essential. - A team player who places great emphasis on collective achievement within her/his team.
Ability to thinking cross-divisionally and working across boundaries - Strong personal and professional ethical values, impeccable integrity, and the energy level required to meet the demands of the position.
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.
