Job Description
Associate Director, GSF DnA Delivery Lead
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 company’s 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 Associate Director, Data Engineering, your role will focus on Data and business intelligence to enhance data-driven decision-making across the organization. This role is crucial for transforming data into valuable insights that drive business performance, support strategic initiatives and ultimately contribute to company mission to use science to improve and save lives around the world.
What will you do in this role:
Delivery Management
- Responsible for delivery of Data & BI initiatives for Procurement, HR, Compliance, Legal, Facilities, and Business Development.
- Act as primary point of contact for business stakeholders, translating functional requirements into technical solutions and roadmaps.
- Define and manage project scope, timelines, priorities, and risks, ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery.
- Facilitate requirements workshops with cross-functional teams and product managers, business analysts.
What should you have:
Functional & Business Skills
- Strong knowledge of process and data in at least two-three of the following domains, and familiarity with others:
- Procurement (e.g., spend analytics, supplier performance, sourcing, P2P)
- Compliance (e.g., controls monitoring, audit & risk reporting, policy adherence)
- Legal (e.g., contract lifecycle analytics, matter management reporting)
- Facilities (e.g., space utilization, maintenance, EHS metrics)
- Business Development (e.g., pipeline analytics, deal evaluation, portfolio performance)
- Ability to translate business questions into analytical problems and data requirements.
- Experience defining and operationalizing KPIs, metrics, and dashboards for senior leadership.
Technical Skills
- Understanding of data engineering practices, including:
- ELT/ETL design and development
- Data pipelines and data infrastructure
- Version control, release management, and deployment of datasets
- Working knowledge of:
- SQL for data extraction, transformation, and performance tuning
- Python and/or PySpark for data processing and pipeline development
- At least one major cloud data warehouse (e.g., Amazon Redshift, Snowflake)
- Large-scale data processing technologies (e.g., distributed computing, high-performance computing)
- Understanding and oversight experience with BI/analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, or similar) for dashboarding and self-service analytics.
- Familiarity with orchestration and monitoring tools (e.g., Airflow, AWS Step Functions, or similar).
- Solid understanding of data modeling techniques (dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas) and performance optimization.
- Agile working knowledge and experience with related tools (e.g., Jira, DevOps, etc.).
Soft Skills
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills (verbal and written), able to bridge technical and business audiences.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a structured approach to tackling ambiguity.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, align diverse stakeholders, and manage expectations.
- Track record of delivering high-quality results in complex, dynamic environments.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering, Information Systems, Data Sciences, Business Analytics or related quantitative field.
- (Nice-to-have) master’s degree or MBA with focus on Analytics / Information Systems.
Experience
- Typically, 8–12 years of experience in Data & Analytics / BI roles, including:
- Significant experience in delivering end-to-end BI and data solutions.
- Demonstrated techno-functional experience working with at least two of the following domains: Procurement, HR, Compliance, Legal, Facilities, Business Development (more is preferred).
- Proven experience in leading project delivery or acting as a Delivery Lead, Product Owner, or Engagement Lead for data/BI initiatives.
- Experience working in matrixed, global organizations and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
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 lives, 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, Management System Development, Product Management, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs
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Job Posting End Date:
02/13/2026
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