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**Location** : PA, NJ, Boston/Cambridge

Job Description:

The Research and Development Sciences (RaDS) value team in R&D IT brings together product management, engineering, and data science expertise. We enable data, technology and services that accelerate our scientists’ ability to discover and develop innovative medicines that change the course of human health. In the RaDS value team, the Product organization is responsible for implementing capabilities and associated services to advance the drug discovery and development pipeline. 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.

We are seeking a motivated and talented Product Manager to join the RaDS Product organization. The position will report to the Lead of the Disease Biology and PharmTox Product Line. The ideal candidate will partner closely with key business stakeholders, the product, engineering, data science and other IT teams, to leverage advanced computational modeling and simulation tools to support pharmaceutical reserachers in predicting drug behavior, improving descision-making, and accelerating the path to market. The goal of this product is to inform pre-clinical development, dose selection and target discovery utilizing modeling, pathway analysis and predictive approaches.

Primary Responsibilities:

+ Partner closely with R&D scientists and Business Technology Partners to own, set, and communicate the product vision, strategy, and outcome roadmap, aligned with strategic priorities.

+ Proactively engage stakeholders to understand business priorities and workflows

+ Participate in problem discovery by identifying and prioritizing challenges, providing high-level solution concepts, and drafting associated epics and key results.

+ Use process mapping, information architecture, and design-thinking to identify pain points, optimize research workflows, and uncover IT automation opportunities.

+ Synthesize data, observations, and research insights to inform product strategy and decision-making through data-driven approaches.

+ Develop a cohesive strategy to manage an orthogonal suite of products and applications, maximizing impact while reducing costs and redundancy.

+ Own and evolve the roadmap for key capabilities and initiatives by continuously conducting product discovery and prioritizing the product backlog in alignment with strategic goals.

+ Drive solution discovery and rapid prototyping with cross-functional teams to evaluate value, usability, feasibility, and business viability.

+ Assess internal and external tools, including predictive modeling, simulation, and target discovery platforms. Collaborate with external vendors supporting target identification, validation, and pre-clinical/non-clinical development to evaluate opportunities, influence their roadmaps and enable integration with internal tools and the data lake.

+ Ensure value delivery and excellent user experience by leveraging expertise in scientific processes, analytics, and stakeholder needs.

+ Manage scientific applications and lead squads to build user-friendly scientific data and technology products; handle risk assessment and vendor engagement as needed.

+ Collaborate with the product tech lead to provide strategic guidance, ensuring seamless integration of tools within our Company's ecosystem and with upstream/downstream systems.

+ Apply industry standards and ontologies to develop FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) applications, advancing in silico models and AI/ML approaches for drug discovery.

+ Create and maintain documentation including SDLC deliverables (GxP and non-GxP), guidelines, SOPs, training materials, and user communications.

+ Coach and empower cross-functional teams to adopt a product mindset focused on customers and scientific challenges.

+ Proactively escalate and resolve issues, removing roadblocks and engaging cross-functional experts to maintain progress.

+ Support regulatory audits and inspections by collaborating with stakeholders and Quality units to provide documentation and respond to inquiries.

+ Actively drive product adoption by analyzing success metrics, user engagement, and trends; develop reports and visualizations, and conduct user group meetings to gather continuous feedback for improvements.

+ Facilitate informed decisions on application renewals in close collaboration with scientific partners.

+ Promote available capabilities to stakeholders, fostering collaboration and integration across teams to avoid silos.

+ Diligiently manage total cost of ownership

Skill sets:

+ Highly collaborative problem solver with 5+ years of experience in scientific software development, pharmaceutical sciences, bioinformatics, target discovery, quantitative systems pharmacology, model-based drug development (MBDD), or scientific data management.

+ Proven experience leading cross-functional teams to launch and manage software products, define user stories, and ensure product development aligns with business requirements.

+ Good understanding of the Model-Based Drug Development (MBDD), Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic modeling and pre-clinical development domain and processes.

+ Familiarity with bioinformatics pathway analysis tools and systems biology approaches used in scientific software.

+ Experience managing and/or implementing modeling tools and workflows, including commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), internally developed, and open-source products.

+ Well-versed in the software development life cycle (SDLC) with the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams; experienced in Agile development principles and working in GxP-regulated environments.

+ Ability to collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams and operate in a matrix organization with a customer-centric mindset.

+ Skilled at bridging communication between technical development teams and business stakeholders to ensure alignment of business needs and technical solutions.

+ Familiarity with information modeling tools such as Visio.

+ Experience with product management and UX tools including Jira, Confluence, Mural, Figma, and Balsamiq.

+ Knowledge of databases, ontologies, and data standards/models relevant to the drug discovery domain.

+ Proven ability to work independently and asynchronously across time zones, with excellent cross-cultural and organizational communication skills.

+ Highly organized with strong attention to detail, effective time management, demonstrated project management capabilities, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Education Minimum Requirement:

+ M.A./M.S. with 3+ years, or B.A./B.S. with 5+ years of experience in a scientific or technical discipline such as biology, pharmaceutical sciences, bioinformatics, computer science, biostatistics, biomedical engineering, or chemistry.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

+ Professional experience working as a scientist , Informatics Analyst or IT analyst in a drug discovery or development environment, specifically target discovery or quantitative systems pharmacology

+ Prior scientific programming experience

+ Experience with one or more data analytics and data mining programming tools, such as R, Perl, Python, Matlab, etc.

+ Familiarity with relational databases (SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL) and data integration.

+ Experience with informatics workflows, pipeline development, and knowledge graphs.

+ Knowledge of computational platforms, including high-performance clusters and cloud computing environments.

+ Experience with data visualization and dashboard tools (e.g., Spotfire, R-Shiny, PowerBI) and ability to tell compelling stories with data.

+ Prior experience working in Agile development environments.

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The salary range for this role is

$114,700.00 - $180,500.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits .

You can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

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**Los Angeles Residents Only:** We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

25%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Not Applicable

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Required Skills:

Agile Application Development, Asset Management, Benefits Management, Drug Discovery Process, Management System Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacokinetics, PKPD Modeling, Product Lifecycle, Product Management, Product Strategies, Rapid Prototyping, Requirements Management, Scientific Software, Scientific Software Development, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs, Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

08/16/2025

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**Requisition ID:** R350078