Job Description
Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.
As part of our Company's digital transformation efforts, this role is critical to enabling a digital shopfloor with strong business understanding of the differing shopfloor applications, this role defines, promotes, and oversees the strategy for integrating shopfloor platforms leading to a fully digital ecosystem. With strong comprehension of the integration technologies, this role will define the data strategy associated with integrations including MES, data historians, automation systems, and analytical instruments, etc. This position will work with all shopfloor product lines within the Digital Manufacturing Value Team and the manufacturing sites in developing and managing this strategy. This role will have a strong tie to the business owners across the manufacturing space. As our Company transforms its operating model, this role will eventually have direct managerial responsibility of teams that deliver and operate technology globally. Finally, this role will work at multiple organizational levels, from a very tactical & technical level to a senior strategic level.
Leadership Competencies
The following competencies outline the core leadership traits that this role should demonstrate and are seen as key to being successful in fulfilling the role.

• Organizationally savvy - Ability to navigate cross functionally within our Company. Must partner effectively with all levels of leadership. You must be able to clearly represent, verbally and in writing, complex decisions, tough trade-offs, and potential solutions to help other leaders understand the decisions they must make and what options they possess. You will influence organizational priorities, business and manufacturing process owners, and business and technology direction. You will manage cross-functional communications to ensure all stakeholders are informed and needs are aligned.
• Builds networks - Builds relationships within our own IT organization, our business stakeholders within our Company, as well a cross functionally to other organizations.
• Communicates Effectively - Ability to communicate clearly with difference audience whether cross functionally within IT, business stakeholders, or organizational leadership. Strong importance on recognizing the audience and crafting messaging accordingly. All aspects are important from technical or tactical discussions at site level to strategic communications at a organization level.
• Global perspective - Ability to balance a single user requirement against a strong focus for a standardized model and be able to influence local users to a global approach.
• Ensures accountability - Ability take responsibility to ensure success on any initiative. On critical projects, it instills confidence in others when they know you have a vested interest in the positive outcome they are all striving toward

Responsibilities:
This role will lead the development of a data strategy for a digital manufacturing plant floor. Understanding of the pharmaceutical manufacturing business use cases and the enabling technology will be key to success. Our Company leverage applications that area leaders in the industry such as Emerson DeltaV DCS, Werum PAS-X MES, OSISoft PI Data historian. Following is a list of key skills for success.

• Data integration requirements to enable a digital plant floor areas of shop floor automation, manufacturing execution, analytical instruments, and data archival/analysis.
• Develop robust and innovative solutions enabling our manufacturing engineers to utilize data to drive improvement decisions, identify issues, and utilize advanced analytics.
• Drive implementation and adherence to a technology governance process for process data.
• Ability to lead a solution delivery teams, taking a project from conceptual phase to value realization with good understand project lifecycle.
• Participate in the development of an Enterprise Architecture using the ISA95 and ISA88 standards.

Education Requirement:

• Bachelors ( Prefer Bachelor of Science)

Qualifications:

• Position may be remote within US or European time zones.
• 5 + years of working experience in manufacturing life sciences.
• Strong understanding how ISA standards S88 and S95 apply to life science manufacturing
• Strong understanding of operational technologies in life science manufacturing specifically the business use cases and value drivers of these solutions.
• Technical depth in the automation systems.
• Previous working experience in networking, virtualization and infrastructure hosting.
• 15 + years of working experience in Operational Technologies
• Previous working experience managing people.

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., 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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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
25%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Remote Work, Work Week
Shift:
1st - Day
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
Number of Openings:
1
Requisition ID:R195807