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Sr. Dir , US Core Data Domains, Products and Services

Merck

Rahway, New Jersey, United States of AmericaFull TimeSenior$190.8k – $300.3k/yr
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Location
Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America
Employment
Full Time
Work model
On-Site
Level
Senior
Salary
$190.8k – $300.3k/yr
Posted
1d ago

Skills

AWSAgileDatabricksGenAISpark

About this role

Job Description

Role Summary We are seeking an experienced, strategic leader to own and evolve the portfolio of core commercial data domains & data products and services for the US Market aligned Human Health (HH) organization. This role drives data product strategy, delivery, quality, operational excellence, reliability at scale, and cost management for high-volume data assets that support marketing, sales, market access, digital, customer engagement, and other HH teams. The leader will stay up to date with key trends in data modeling, engineering, and product development (e.g., AI-enabled Data Engineering, creating AI-ready data, Context engineering, Context ops, Governance, powering GenAI & Agentic AI initiatives). This leader will also work closely with other leaders within the US and International data products, services and solutions organization to ensure the needs of the organization are addressed appropriately and efficiently.

Position

Responsibilities Role Overview: Responsible to frame the strategic vision and enable efficient and effective delivery of US-focused Core Human Health (HH) data domains, ensuring all commercial data is optimized, governed, engineered for scale, and leveraged for immediate analytical, business, and GenAI use cases. Strategic Leadership & Vision: Define the Portfolio Strategy: Execute a commercial data product portfolio strategy that prioritizes high-value use cases, drives ROI on third-party spend, and unlocks first-party data value. Own the Product Lifecycle: Direct the vision, roadmaps, requirements, delivery milestones, release management, and adoption metrics for a suite of core commercial data products. Operational Excellence & Cost Management: Drive efficiencies across high-volume data products, optimizing data pipeline compute costs and ensuring strict adherence to reliability and SLA standards at enterprise scale. Demand & Budget Management: Partner with US Market aligned teams from DHH, HH, IT, and Finance to understand broader data needs, enable demand management based on resourcing/budgets, and negotiate timelines. Data Architecture & Engineering: GenAI-Powered Product Delivery: Partner with Foundational Capability teams to leverage GenAI-ready infrastructure (curated semantic layers, vector stores, RAG pipelines) to build, scale, and deploy robust GenAI-powered commercial data products. Medallion Architecture Execution: Develop and manage high-volume data product solutions aligned to the Medallion architecture (gold/“part of” silver) to enable HH capabilities. Pipeline Management: Lead development and management of data pipelines on commercial data platforms (e.g., Databricks) ensuring extreme reliability, performance, and scalability across all data layers. Product Delivery & Domain Management: HH Domain Ownership: Oversee data domains and product development for Performance management, Marketing mix, Campaign analytics, Field reporting, Patient, HCP, Account/Payer analytics, and Omnichannel execution.

Requirement

Translation: Translate commercial stakeholders’ objectives into clear product requirements and prioritized backlogs; ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose, reusable, and production-ready. Cross-Functional Governance: CDAO & Tech Alignment: Partner closely with Central Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) on ingestion patterns, and coordinate with the CTO and Commercial Capabilities teams to maintain technical infrastructure. Compliance by Design: Embed data governance, data quality, privacy, and compliance requirements (HIPAA, CCPA/CPRA where applicable) directly into product design.

Team

Leadership & Innovation: Grow a Multidisciplinary Org: Lead product managers, data product engineers, and solution architects focused on delivering production-grade, highly reliable data services.

Team

Health & Global Alignment: Manage delivery execution while working closely with International data organization(s), Central Data teams, Divisional teams and Enterprise teams to

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