Director, TechLab Portfolio & Governance Leader

Company: Merck
Location: Rahway
Posted on: April 25, 2025

Job Description:

Job DescriptionThe Portfolio and Governance Lead will provide support to the strategic direction of our Tech R&D projects within our company's animal health division. This role involves overseeing a diverse project portfolio that generates revenue in the hundreds million while ensuring alignment with organizational strategic priorities. The role will assist and participate in the decision-making processes related to research and development investments, actively participating in strategic meetings to prioritize initiatives and implement effective governance practices.This position requires a deep understanding of our structure and opportunities and the ability to navigate industry uncertainties, identifying opportunities for information gathering for better decision making, and standardizing hypotheses, and will play a critical role in providing insights that influence the allocation of R&D funding and support the successful launch of products, thereby driving the overall success of the organization.Key Responsibilities:

• Oversight of project development governance.
• Manage Executive Steering Committee meetings, planning sessions, etc.
• Overall responsibility to define tracking and monitoring methods over project milestones.
• Consolidating bottom-up project reporting into high-level dashboards.
• Responsible for formulating the projects/portfolio high-level plan and roadmap, in consultation with management and other parties concerned.
• Defining portfolio visibility and communication methods.
• Set KPI mechanism, define KPIs, cascade Top Down and consolidate Bottom Up.
• Overall responsibility to set and drive PM knowledge base, documentation, and training.
• Coordinate and manage the implementation of required supporting technologies/applications/managing systems for high-level systems.
• Continuous improvement of methods and organization.Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or related areas of study.
  • 7+ years of experience in Project/Portfolio management in tech-related industry and/or job field.
  • Experience managing project/portfolio on a global scale.
  • Working knowledge of several project management methodologies including waterfall and agile that function on a variety of internal/external projects.
  • Experience in system changes and processes implementation.
  • Experience in establishing and foundation of infrastructure and methods in large-scale organizations.
  • Ability to motivate and influence people who are not directly managed.
  • Communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Portfolio Management Expertise & Risk Management Analytics.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with English fluency.
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