Process Intelligence Senior Specialist

Merck Merck · Pharma · NJ

This role focuses on analyzing and optimizing business processes, identifying opportunities for AI and automation, and gathering requirements for AI/Agentic AI solutions. It involves business process modeling, data analysis, and supporting the SDLC for these initiatives, but the core deliverable is process improvement and requirements, not the AI models themselves.

What you'd actually do

  1. Leads the modelling of current-state and desired business process scenarios, applying corporate modelling standards, definitions, techniques (e.g. BPMN – Business Process Modelling and Notation) and utilizing corporate sanctioned modelling tools (e.g. CPM - Celonis Process Modelling)
  2. Conduct analyses of current business processes to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for solutions that leverage AI, Automation or Process Intelligence technologies. Utilize process mapping and modelling techniques to visualize workflows.
  3. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, document, and analyse business requirements related to automation, AI, and process initiatives. Facilitate and leads workshops, interviews, and surveys to elicit functional and non-functional requirements and turn them into testable User Stories.
  4. Leads, develops, and analyses data driven POV/POC process mining models (simple single object digital twins) to validate assumptions on defined processes.
  5. Supports all phases of the development of business process digital twins ensuring deliverables are completed including defining, documenting, and ensuring traceability of requirements, SDLC documentation, user Acceptance Testing, validation of the identified data sources and data profiling of processes’ digital footprints, sustainment activities to Digital Twins and their KPI Control Towers and associated assets resulting from process updates.

Skills

Required

  • At least 3 years of relevant work experience with demonstrated expertise in using information to analyse business performance, identify opportunities and solve problems.
  • At least 3 years of business analysis, process design, or process improvement experience.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and ability to work with incomplete or imperfect data.
  • demonstrated experience applying excellent oral and written communication and inter-personal skills working with global and cross-functional teams towards common goals

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s or higher in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Business Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Science/MIS, Finance/Accounting, Engineering or Science.
  • High motivation, strong organizational skills, ability to work independently in a dynamic environment.
  • Teamwork and collaborative focus, customer service oriented
  • Excellent oral/written communication and presentation skills

What the JD emphasized

  • AI, Automation or Process Intelligence technologies
  • AI and/or Agentic AI solutions
  • process mining models
  • process intelligence tool set
  • data transformation concepts and ETL workflows
  • AI-driven solutions