Job Description
Our Product team partners with the business to build innovative solutions that help redefine Clinical Trial Data Transformation and Submissions. Our research labs' IT team is seeking a Product Manager for Reusable Data Services, reporting to the Lead Product Manager.
The ideal candidate encapsulates technology, strategy, user experience, and agile delivery skills with an huge appetite and curiosity to solve hard problems. Your goal is to deliver measurable value to clinical data stakeholders.
What you will do
- Orchestrate the product across its lifecycle. Be the chief orchestrator of the product helping champion its vision, strategy and mission with a clear focus on business outcomes and user experience
- Drive continuous product discovery. User journey mapping and design thinking to surface unmet and unarticulated needs, then turn them into a prioritised backlog
- Set the roadmap. Make high-integrity roadmap commitments that you've assessed with the squad for value, feasibility, usability and viability.
- Align stakeholders. Partner with clinical data management, biostatistics, standards and downstream systems such as the SDTM Engine to align priorities and dependencies
- Lead delivery. Help the squad ship iteratively, and manage scope, schedule, risks and cross-squad dependencies
- Champion AI-enabled ways of working. Find opportunities for automation and AI to boost throughput and reduce cycle time
- Contribute to product line strategy. Work with the Lead Product Manager and Architect on cross-squad prioritisation, defining product metrics, OKRs and KPIs to steer decisions and show delivered value
What you bring
Required
- 5+ years in product management, technical product management or a closely related role delivering data or platform products
- A proven record of owning a roadmap and delivering outcomes in an agile or product operating model
- Skill at turning complex technical concepts into business value for senior stakeholders
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority
- Empathy and great taste for UX and Design
- Fluent English
Preferred
- Experience in pharma, life sciences or clinical research data, such as CDISC, SDTM, EDC or clinical data management
- Familiarity with data privacy and de-identification (masking), medical coding or data governance
- Experience applying AI and automation to improve team productivity
- Product management certification (e.g., SAFe POPM, CSPO, Pragmatic)
Our Offer
- Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
- Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
- Pension and health (Canadian Medical) contributions
- Internal reward system plus referral program
- 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
- Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport card, Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora discount programs
- Up-to-date laptop and iPhone, parking in the garage, showers, refreshments
- Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more
Ready to take up the challenge? Apply now!
Know anybody who might be interested? Refer this job!
The date shown below is the earliest possible closing date for this posting. However, we sometimes extend the job posting period as needed, so please feel free to apply anytime you see the "Apply" button available. You may also reach out to the recruiter directly via https://www.linkedin.com/in/badumtss/
#joinAI
Additional location(s) Compensation Information:
Required Skills:
Communication, Data Management, Product Management, Stakeholder Management, User Experience (UX)Preferred Skills:
Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standards, Clinical Data Management, Clinical Research, Data Governance, Data Privacy, Electronic Data Capture (EDC), Intelligent Automation (IA), Life Science, Medical Coding, Pharmaceutical Industry, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM)Current Employees apply HERE
Current Contingent Workers apply HERE
Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
Employee Status:
RegularRelocation:
VISA Sponsorship:
Travel Requirements:
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Not ApplicableShift:
Valid Driving License:
Hazardous Material(s):
Job Posting End Date:
11/18/2026*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in product management, technical product management, or a closely related role delivering data or platform products
- Proven experience owning a roadmap and delivering outcomes in an agile or product operating model
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value for senior stakeholders
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including influencing without authority
- Empathy and strong UX and design judgment
- Fluent English
- Experience in pharma, life sciences, or clinical research data, including CDISC, SDTM, EDC, or clinical data management
- Familiarity with data privacy, de-identification, medical coding, or data governance
- Experience applying AI and automation to improve team productivity
- Product management certification such as SAFe POPM, CSPO, or Pragmatic
Merck Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Merck and has not been reviewed or approved by Merck.
-
Retirement Support — Retirement offerings stand out, with a U.S. defined‑benefit pension alongside a 401(k) match and ongoing program funding. This uncommon combination contributes meaningfully to total compensation strength.
-
Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is broad, pairing medical plans with mental‑health resources and on‑site or near‑site services at many locations, alongside wellness programs. Together, these benefits bolster support for employees and families.
-
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off provisions are expansive, including company holidays, a year‑end shutdown, vacation that scales with service, and paid parental leave. Additional leave types such as sick, military, bereavement, jury duty, voting, and volunteering time are also included.
Merck Insights
What We Do
For 130 years, Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases in pursuit of our mission to save and improve lives. We demonstrate our commitment to patients and population health by increasing access to health care through far-reaching policies, programs and partnerships. Today, we continue to be at the forefront of research to prevent and treat diseases that threaten people and animals – including cancer, infectious diseases such as HIV and Ebola, and emerging animal diseases – as we aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company in the world. We hire the most brilliant minds because inventing for life depends on our work. Here, you'll find rewarding opportunities, diverse experiences, and an unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. You'll collaborate with talented colleagues who share your sense of purpose. Our company will empower you to innovate, explore, and develop your full potential in our possibility-rich environment. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
Why Work With Us
Our Invention is driven by our People, who are empowered by our company to bring their authentic selves to work. We celebrate individuality and foster a culture of inclusion while maintaining an environment crafted to aid innovation. We encourage the growth of our employees, confident that their contributions will lead to a better world.
Gallery
