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Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Onsite
Job Description
The Opportunity
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.
A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
Role Overview
We are looking for an Agile Lead / Scrum Master who combines strong agile expertise with a growth mindset, excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence outcomes across diverse stakeholder groups. The ideal candidate is not simply a facilitator of Agile processes, but a proactive leader who helps teams solve complex problems, improve decision-making, and continuously evolve the way they work.
You should be comfortable working in a fast-changing environment where priorities shift, new technologies emerge rapidly, and success depends on collaboration, adaptability, and initiative.
What will you do in this role:
Team Leadership & Agile Excellence
Stakeholder Engagement & Influence
Organizational Agility & Change Leadership
AI & Digital Enablement
What success looks like:
Primary Skills (Must Have):
Secondary skills (nice to have):
We are specifically looking for someone who:
What Will Make You Stand Out
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 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.
Additional location(s) Compensation Information:
Required Skills:
Accountability, Accountability, Adaptability, Agile Leadership, Agile Marketing, Agile Project Management, Agile Scrum Development, Agile Thinking, Building Trust, Business Agility, Capability Development, Change Management, Classroom Delivery, Client Counseling, Coaching, Decision Making, Disciplined Agile Delivery, Influencing Skills, Influencing Without Authority, Information Technology (IT), Learning Design, Methodical Approach, Operating Models, Organizational Change Management, Organizational Structures {+ 3 more}Preferred Skills:
Agile Methodology, Business Outcomes, CollaborationCurrent Employees apply HERE
Current Contingent Workers apply HERE
Secondary Language(s) Job Description:
#MSDHYDIT
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:
No relocationVISA Sponsorship:
NoTravel Requirements:
No Travel RequiredFlexible Work Arrangements:
HybridShift:
Not IndicatedValid Driving License:
NoHazardous Material(s):
n/aJob Posting End Date:
11/9/2026*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.