Senior Manager, Product Owner, Data Management

Our Digital team is innovating how we understand our patients and their needs. Working cross functionally we are inventing new ways of communicating, measuring and interacting with our customers and patients through digital channels and technologies.
We are seeking a talented, motivated and self-driven professional to join the Human Health Insights, Analytics and Data (HHIAD) organization and play an active role in our Companys Human Health transformation journey to become the premier Data First commercial biopharma organization. As a Product Owner, you will be part of the HHIAD Data Management and Platforms team where you will be responsible for shaping the strategy, overseeing delivery execution and ensuring value realization of data platform features and data products.
In this role, you will leverage strategic thinking, technical skills, creativity and knowledge of pharmaceutical data landscapes to shape the product vision and strategy. You will partner with architecture, data science and IT teams, as well as global and regional stakeholders to assess needs, develop the product strategy and roadmap, lead engineering teams to deliver best-in-class data platform features and data engineering services, and measure value realization aligned with the companys mission and HHIAD organization strategy. You will have the opportunity to deliver impactful capabilities that enable data-driven decision making across our companys commercial division and realize value for commercial and marketing teams.

Primary Responsibilities:

Translate problems, needs and opportunities into the product vision, strategy and roadmap for the data platform supporting the HHIAD organization, aligned with business strategy and objectives
Conduct stakeholder meetings to continuously shape and evolve product vision and roadmap
Develop and leverage in-depth knowledge of biopharma marketing/commercial analytics domains and data landscapes
Lead design, prioritization and delivery of data platform features and data engineering/management services through the software development lifecycle, from concept to testing, deployment and adoption
Create and manage epics and user stories to ensure delivery teams have well-groomed and prioritized backlogs to meet product objectives and deliver on the product roadmap
Partner with stakeholders across HHIAD and the broader Human Health organization to implement robust refinement practices and customer feedback loops to ensure features and services delivered are aligned with business/user needs
Drive value-based prioritization of work, manage release scoping in alignment with stakeholders and ensure customer expectation are managed optimally
Partner with various business strategy and execution teams, internal data stewards and 3rd party vendors to further develop and scale the companys data assets
Manage optimal balance between user/stakeholder needs and technical capabilities to maintain high platform performance standards, efficient operations and minimize technical debt
Work closely with product owners/managers, scrum masters and technical leads to optimize team setup and resolve impediments to enable efficient and high-quality software development
Work independently under minimal guidance, ensuring alignment with management teams.

Education:

B.S. or M.S. in Engineering or related field, such as Computer Science, Data Science, Business, etc.

Required Experience and Skills:

Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience, with demonstrated Product Ownership experience developing data and analytics capabilities in an Agile framework
Knowledge of data engineering capabilities and data science lifecycle
Relevant experience in Product Development Frameworks, System Development Life Cycle
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to quickly establish credibility and trust with a variety of stakeholders
Leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to set direction and lead/motivate teams

Preferred Experience and Skills:

Understanding of Global Commercial and Marketing Analytics domains and data landscape
Prior experience in the pharmaceutical industry
Agile Certifications
AWS Cloud Certifications

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 worlds 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.

Required Skills:

Business Intelligence (BI), Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Measurement Analysis, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Waterfall Model

Senior Manager Product Owner, Data Management