Job Description
Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where our company has codified its 130-year legacy. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
We know that our people are the key to our success, which is why our Human Resources team works to attract, develop, retain and inspire our people so that they can learn, grow and make a true impact on the world. Together we collaborate to create a culturally rich, diverse organization ensuring we remain innovative and agile.
The Global Talent Management team drives the development, alignment, and execution of talent acquisition, learning, leadership development, succession, and analytics. As a data-driven talent function, the Associate Director of Talent Strategy will work across the leaders within Talent Management and senior leaders to shape our most critical talent priorities. The role requires a blend of analytical capabilities, storytelling with data, and strong influencing skills.
Primary responsibilities:

• The Associate Director, Talent Strategy will manage a portfolio of projects focused on the strategic choices our company faces.
• Build business cases and articulate talent strategies to address problems leveraging our analytics platforms.
• Ensure team and senior leader buy-in for strategy and change efforts, including building communications and relationships needed for full support.
• Proactively drive alignment across a diverse set of stakeholders.
• Create implementation plans aligned with the business.
• Manage executive and board communications and presentations.
• Consult across GTM on talent strategy and assist in articulating the bigger picture to drive change.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree required
• Advanced degree preferred (MBA, MD, PhD, JD, PharmD, and/or other professional degrees also considered based on experience)

Required Skills:

• Problem solving: Identify, structure, and solve problems impacting our company and industry. Ensure clear ownership and have a bias to action.
• Project management: Scope, plan, manage logistics, and ensure execution of complex cross-divisional strategy projects.
• Ability to identify and make clear connections between various teams and workstreams to enable greater efficiencies and more qualitative outcomes.
• Stakeholder engagement: Build and maintain working relationships with a variety of stakeholders - coach junior colleagues, partner with peers in a matrix environment, and influence senior leaders.
• Ability to facilitate meetings at all levels and articulate clear purpose, desired outcomes, and track action items and next steps.
• Executive communications: Directly author and/ or manage process to create senior executive and Board level strategy presentations and memos. Ability to write crisp communications in multiple formats appropriate for audiences as varied as the C-suite to employees.
• Ability to work successfully within a matrixed structure across various HR and business functions.
• Exceptional storytelling with data skills as well as the Powerpoint and advanced Excel skills needed for the role; ability to build a story visually and create a compelling case for change.
• Knowledge of Workday and as well as effectively communicate through MS Teams, Yammer, etc.
• Ability to achieve results through ambiguity.

Required Experience:

• Demonstrated ability to leverage analytics to create novel strategies talent strategy and/or demonstration of very high potential.
• 5+ years with project leadership in consulting and/ or transformational work.
• Successful project leadership and problem solving experience in high-visibility roles (e.g., strategy consulting, banking, start-ups, healthcare marketing, general management).
• Strong understanding of "big picture" of healthcare and biopharmaceutical industry and ability to translate to near-term business opportunities.

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.
Who we are ...
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, 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.
NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS
In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.
If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
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Travel Requirements:
10%
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Number of Openings:
1