Job Description

Associate Director, Technical Product Management

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.

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 our companys’ 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.

This role drives standard business process, continuous Improvement, analytics and get ready for the migration to SAP S4 Hana.

The Production Execution/Material Handling Steward is responsible to collaborate with functional leaders and subject matter experts to establish Warehouse and Logistics focused prioritized continuous improvement opportunities and define strategy which will translate into the design, build, implementation, and sustainment of the Global Operating Model with the Enterprise ERP solution.

What you will do :

· Lead the identification of opportunities to standardize business processes and system configuration globally and ensure compliance to these standards.

· Maintain state Global Operating Model as part of new ERP selection and development.

· Ensure Global Process design adheres to all Company and Regulatory Regulations

· Collaborate with other Process Stewards to ensure alignment in the use of standard processes.

· In conjunction with Data stewards, develop and maintain data standards to govern adherence to both process and systems

· Facilitate Community of Practice and, drive process standardization and collect feedback for improvement

· Collaborate with Super Users for business support. Provide level II support to resolve issues.

· Contribute and own business process deliverables (GOM, day in the life, procedures, job aids, RACI and metrics)

· Maintain and improve training curricula.

· Assess maturity & process performance for opportunities and continuous improvement; support sites in case additional explanation is required

· Develop strong relationship with IT to support system related deployments and enhancements.

Primary Skills SAP Production Planning (PP-PI, Inventory Management (IM) ,Warehouse Management (WM) and Extended Warehouse Management (EWM).

What should you have :

· Bachelor's degree in technical field (Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Chemistry, Computer Science/MIS, Business, Economics, Finance/Accounting, or other scientific fields).

Required Experience or Minimum or 11+ Years functional experience in Warehouse and/or Plant Operations

· Must exhibit expertise in the areas of SAP Production Planning (PP-PI, Inventory Management (IM), Warehouse Management (WM) and Extended Warehouse Management (EWM).

· Able to effectively dialog with functional areas outside your specific area of expertise and background.

· Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and an ability to effectively work with incomplete or imperfect data.

· Strong oral and written communication skills with a proven ability to organize complex information in a concise and compelling manner. Comfort in presenting key findings to leaders from various functional areas.

Preferred Experience:

SAP Material Management (MM)

· Multi sites experiences and business knowledge

· Knowledge and experience with information systems supporting supply chain activities (e.g. Rapid Response, SAP, MMES, MES, LIMS, etc.) combined with an understanding of end-to-end supply chain operations.

· 11+ years hands on SAP experience (SAP PP-PI, MM, WM, IM, EWM, SD, QM, ECM)

· Experience with SAP S/4 HANA including implementation

· Experience in integration of SAP with 3rd party systems (i.e. MES, MMES)

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 , 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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Required Skills:

Asset Management, Benefits Management, Computer Science, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Inventory Management, Management System Development, Process Standardization, Product Management, Requirements Management, SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO), SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), SAP HANA, SAP PP (Production Planning), SAP Project System (PS), SAP S/4HANA, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs, Warehouse Management, Warehouse Storage

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

06/24/2026

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