Job Description
THE OPPORTUNITY
Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130-year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
Lead an Organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be the leaders who has a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, which will allow us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Our Technology centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. AN integral part of the IT operating model, Tech centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.
A focused group of leaders in each tech center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
Role Overview:
As the ED, Data & Analytics Strategy, you will lead the teams that owns the products and the underlying technologies, platforms and infrastructure through its entire lifecycle. You are an expert in D&A technologies and business processes who enables and deeply understands stakeholders and their needs. You will set the product vision, roadmaps, and strategy, ensuring value and user experience are measured and achieved.
What will you do in this role:
You will lead and execute the organization's IT data strategy, ensuring alignment with IT financial goals and operational efficiency and alignment with the enterprise data strategy
You will be responsible for overseeing the governance of the IT data domain and it’s critical sub-domains, enabling a strong data stewardship culture, and leveraging data analytics for continuous improvement.
You will lead and maintain the data governance model and governance framework, including councils and committees, to oversee critical IT data domains and ensure accountability at all levels.
You will lead initiatives that promote data stewardship, enabling sub-domain owners to ensure data accuracy, accountability, and timely delivery of IT Data.
You will establish and manage a skilled engineering and delivery team with clear roles and accountabilities to deliver and manage the underlying technologies, platform and integrated data layer that will deliver the IT Data outcomes, including ongoing overall production vision and strategy
You will establish strong partnerships with critical stakeholders such as Enterprise Architecture, IT Data sub domain leaders, IT Finance, and Business of IT teams to ensure the integration of data strategy with broader IT initiatives.
You will make product decisions, ensuring alignment with the product strategy. Be the chief advocate within the wider organization for products to drive adoption, fantastic user experience, and value realization.
Guide the team in developing and regularly calibrating product metrics. Drive continuous product discovery to understand user needs and translate them into solutions and a product backlog.
Lead the team to drive release and support planning and execution (go to market). Manage multiple teams of technology professionals, promoting career development and continuous upskilling of talent in order to build incredible teams and the ecosystem to empower them.
Monitor and optimize the product's total cost of ownership (TCO).
As the senior most leader for the CTO group, you will develop a strong executive external presence and strong internal networks to recruit highly skilled and diverse talent across the needs of the CTO organization, stay current with industry trends, and establish effective vendor partnership.
What Should you have:
You have a bachelor's degree in information management, computer science, or technology and at least 15+ years of experience in Data & Analytics technologies, product management and IT leadership roles in complex matrix environments. You are proficient in asset, product, requirement, and stakeholder relationship management.
+10 years of hands-on experience of data management and governance experience
+10 years of hands-on experience and expertise in cloud environments and data & analytics technologies.
+10 years hands on experience in leading, managing and driving large D&A teams focused on strong services, products, platform and technology delivery inclusive of product/solution engineering, solution architects, platform engineering, platform administration and support teams.
Subject Matter Expert and a leader who guides teams on system designs and management system development. You have a demonstrated ability in innovation, influence, and strategic planning with outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.
You are a pro in working with colleagues from diverse disciplines and at all levels in the company, articulating complex technical topics at the right level of detail for specific audiences.
You have strong quantitative skills and the ability to use data and metrics to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement.
Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.
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.
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