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Rahway, New Jersey, United States
Onsite
Job Description
We are a global biopharmaceutical leader with a portfolio of prescription medicines, oncology, vaccines, and animal health products. We are driven by our purpose to develop and deliver innovative products that save and improve lives. With 69,000 employees operating in more than 140 countries, we offer state-of-the-art laboratories, plants, and offices designed to inspire our employees as we learn, develop, and grow in our careers. We are proud of our over 125 years of service to humanity and continue to be one of the world's biggest investors in Research & Development.
We are seeking an Associate Director to join our Digital Insights team within the Development Sciences and Clinical Supply (DSCS) Digital Technologies organization. Digital is the multiplier that will allow DSCS to deliver better experiments faster, more efficient filing and launch, more robust supply chains, and higher-confidence decisions across the portfolio.
The DSCS Digital Technologies organization is responsible for the invention and application of new digital tools and workflows to support scientists across drug substance development, drug product development, and analytical development. We aspire to embed digital technologies into the fabric of DSCS culture to drive transformational impact. In this Associate Director role, the successful candidate will design, build, and maintain the data foundation that powers data-driven modeling of sterile drug product development. Specifically, the candidate will capture, curate, and deliver experimental and process data from Sterile Product Development (SPD) teams into machine learning, statistical, and hybrid modeling workflows. This role is a critical enabler of our process modeling strategy: using data-driven models, supported by mechanistic understanding where appropriate, to de-risk and optimize sterile drug substance (DS) and drug product (DP) manufacturing processes across biologics and vaccines.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in sterile drug product development and has since transitioned into a data engineering or data science role. This domain depth enables the candidate to work comfortably alongside SPD experimentalists, understand the scientific context of the data being captured, and anticipate the needs of downstream modelers. Familiarity with data-driven modeling approaches, and how they consume experimental data, is strongly preferred, so that the candidate can deliver data in the right format, granularity, and context.
Required Skills:
Change Catalyst, Change Catalyst, Customer-Focused, Data Analysis, Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform, Data Engineering, Data Generation, Data Ingestion, Data Management, Data Modeling Techniques, Data Pipelines, Data Science, Data Transformation, Data Visualization, Design Changes, Detail-Oriented, Engineering Principle, Engineering Standards, Estimation and Planning, Graph Databases, Identifying Customer Needs, Jupyter Notebook, Manufacturing Scale-Up, Model Driven Design, Production Optimization {+ 7 more}Preferred Skills:
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The salary range for this role is
$129,000.00 - $203,100.00This 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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