Job Description
Senior Manager, Technical Lead- GSM Product Lines
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.
Be part of 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 a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Role Overview
Our Technology Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centres 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.
The Technical Lead role for GSM Product Lines has been created to lead a team of developers to meet the new development backlog across this domain. In this role you will lead a team of Software Engineers, developing new solutions or enhancing existing solutions in Procurement, Supplier Management and Travel Management, Meetings and Employee Expense Management areas to address the core application backlogs, emerging automation and analytical needs of senior Global Supplier Management leaders.
What will you do in this role:
Build key relationships with Global Supplier Management leadership and IT colleagues to lead the delivery of our business solutions.
Gain a deep understanding of the business processes, systems, and data that support strategic processes and programs related to our GSM product lines.
Build a high-performing team of software engineers to deliver robust technology solutions.
Share knowledge and mentor others in areas of technical expertise.
Acquire knowledge and be mentored in areas of growth and development.
As the Technical Lead, assess the current state solutions and develop a roadmap to deliver greater business value and maintain a secure and modern technology landscape.
Lead a team of developers to manage the application stack and ensure delivery on project backlog.
Develop expertise in Procurement, Supplier Management and Travel Management, Meetings and Employee Expense Management, and the core business processes supported
Demonstrate strong working knowledge of modern development practices and technology stack on the cloud
Partner with other IT organizations to ensure alignment with Platform teams, IT architecture, IT Risk management, support organizations in delivering projects.
Contribute as a senior developer on critical initiatives, share best practices, technical expertise and collaborate and earn the trust and respect of the product team.
Demonstrate ability to focus on key priorities and lead and collaborate effectively to deliver on IT commitments.
Strive to be a valued member of the extended Global Supplier Management partners’ teams.
What should you have:
Bachelors in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
Minimum of 5+ years of experience working in large, complex IT development projects
Strong understanding of Procurement, Supplier Management and Travel, Meeting and Employee expense business processes.
Proficient level of experience and knowledge of SAP Ariba suite, SAP Fieldglass, SAP MDG, SAP ECC and S/4 etc,
Good working experience in application design, development, and configuration of SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass and SAP MDG.
Exposure to SAP Concur expenses, Veeva, VAT Compliance and Card payment applications. Integration with ERP and 3rd Party systems and applications.
Experience on documenting functional and technical specifications.
Strong problem solving and analytical skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Proficient with Agile Methodology, tools and DevSecOps approaches.
Certification in SAP Ariba, Fieldglass, SAP Procurement
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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