Associate Director, Technical Product Management

Merck Merck · Pharma · NJ

Associate Director, Technical Product Management at Merck, focusing on integration platforms within the healthcare domain. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, translating business requirements into technical specifications, and leading agile teams to implement solutions. It requires evaluating emerging technologies like AI/ML, managing product roadmaps, and ensuring scalability, security, and compliance with health sciences regulatory standards (HIPAA, FDA).

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and translate business requirements into technical specifications and product features. Monitor and enhance adoption and usage of the product and digital services.
  2. Work closely with the cross organizational teams to develop integration points that streamline business processes. Research and evaluate emerging technologies (e.g., AI, machine learning, blockchain, IoT) to identify opportunities for innovation within the integration platform. Lead cross-functional global agile teams implementing platforms or solutions.
  3. Develop and execute the integration strategy across health sciences orgs and systems like SAP ERP, ensuring alignment with business goals. Identify integration requirements and drive the implementation of solutions that enhance operational efficiency and data flow.
  4. Act as the primary product owner for the integration platform, responsible for the product vision, roadmap, and backlog prioritization.
  5. Leverage cutting-edge technologies such as Mulesoft, APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms to enhance integration capabilities.

Skills

Required

  • Integration leadership
  • Product ownership
  • Digital product development
  • API & integration patterns
  • Modern integration technologies
  • ERP integration
  • Health sciences enterprise applications
  • SOAP & REST standards and architectures
  • Cloud-based API and integration solutions
  • Business outcomes driven leadership
  • Facilitation, marketing and persuasion skills
  • Global or multi-national organization experience

Nice to have

  • AI
  • Machine learning
  • Blockchain
  • IoT
  • Mulesoft
  • Microservices
  • Cloud platforms
  • SAP ERP modules (S/4HANA, FI/CO, SCM, DL, MM, SD)

What the JD emphasized

  • Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Sciences or Information Technology and 10 years of experience in the position offered or related.
  • Must have 10 years of experience with all the following:
  • Working in integration leadership and product ownership and developing digital products and services.
  • Building and provisioning engineering toolsets with high autonomy, automation, and self-service level.
  • Working with API & integration patterns and modern technologies to support these patterns.
  • Experience as a product owner, deliver lead in the integrations with ERP and other health sciences enterprise applications.
  • Applying soap & rest standards and architectures, working with the implications of integration technology choices to performance, flexibility and agility of systems.
  • Experience advising clients on related solutions and services.
  • Experience working in all areas of software delivery cycle.
  • Working knowledge of cloud-based API and integration solutions.
  • Business outcomes driven leadership with ability to connect value to investments and relentless focus on actions that lead to better value and ROI.
  • Facilitation, marketing and persuasion skills to help stakeholder community understand the value of product line offerings and help them adopt the offerings,
  • Experience in a global or multi-national organization.