Senior Manager, Technical Product Manager / Delivery Manager

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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in the Platform's demand management activities - assessment, prioritization, estimation, team capacity planning and forecasting, etc.
• Work with customers and stakeholders, understanding their needs and capturing their requirements.
• Lead technical squads and coordinate end-to-end delivery of specific APIs and integrations - from initial demand to final release in production.
• Actively collaborate with solution architects, product managers, and other delivery leads from the Platform team to ensure we provide the right solution for our stakeholders at the right time.

Expected skills and experience

• At least 3 years of experience in delivery orchestration and leadership - proven track record of successful IT delivery work.
• At least 8 years of experience in IT related positions - software engineering, product management, service delivery, etc.
• Experience in working with stakeholders - understanding needs and translating them to requirements for delivery, managing stakeholder expectations, and collaborating with stakeholders on the overall delivery plan.
• Experience in leading and coordinating the delivery of technical squads - planning and estimating effort, identifying risks and dependencies, removing obstacles, and supporting the technical squads in their work.
• Experience delivering IT solutions in a larger organization, assessing risks and dependencies from collaboration with other teams.
• Excellent project management skills - planning, estimation, coordination of effort, status tracking, etc.
• Experience in agile delivery - focus on customers, short feedback cycles, focus on outcomes and value, data-driven decisions, etc.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. The official communication language is English.
• High-level knowledge and understanding of the systems and application integration technical area - APIs, integration patterns, cloud technologies, etc.

Nice to have skills and experience

• A technical background is a big plus - experience in solution architecture, software engineering, cloud computing, DevOps, SRE, etc.
• Experience in people management - working with people, administrative tasks, growing talent, supporting professional and personal development, etc.
• Experience in product management - adopting the product model and the product mindset.
• Product management or project management certification.
• A general understanding of the pharma industry.

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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