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Dir Technical Project Management
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Rahway, Union County, New Jersey, 07065, USA
Listed on 2026-06-13
Listing for:
Merck
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-06-13
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
IT Project Manager, Systems Analyst
Job Description & How to Apply Below
** Job Description*
* The Director, Technical Project Management - Enterprise Programs & Market Activation leads the orchestration and activation of divisional, enterprise & global strategic initiatives. The role ensures coordinated program governance, market readiness, and measurable adoption outcomes are realised, while connecting product and value team priorities, technology delivery, and market activation activities.
This role translates highly strategic, complex intiatives which impact multiple teams into executable launch and operational plans, managing cross-enterprise dependencies, and ensuring markets are prepared to adopt and realize value from strategic initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
+ Serve as primary technical delivery lead and for program, project, activation, and commercial stakeholders for prioritised projects and intiatives.
+ Develop and execute market-readiness and activation strategies including training, enablement, localized launch plans, and go-to-market coordination.
+ Establish and run program governance, steering committees, and decision forums with key stakeholders.
+ Maintain project roadmaps, dependency matrices, integration plans, milestone tracking, and go/no‑go criteria.
+ Translate technical integration risks and vendor dependencies into business-facing decisions and mitigation plans.
+ Coordinate deployment readiness: cutover/rollback planning, operational runbooks, and post-launch validation focused on market impacts.
+ Drive change management and adoption: communications, stakeholder engagement, training curricula, and measurement of adoption KPIs.
+ Work with Portfolio and Product teams to prioritize initiatives based on strategic value, market readiness, and resource capacity.
+ Manage strategic partners and vendor deliverables across multiple markets; ensure SLAs and integration timelines are met.
+ Lead, mentor, and manage 1-2 project managers to embed consistent practices and drive predictability.
+ Report program status, risks, and value realization to senior leadership and adjust plans based on outcomes.
Education Requirement:
+ Bachelor's degree (Business Administration, Project/Program Management, IT, Engineering, or similar)
+ Minimum 10 years of experience in program or portfolio management delivering global, cross-functional initiatives, including market activation or commercial launches.
+ Proven experience influencing senior stakeholders, running governance forums, and coordinating across markets and vendors.
+ Technical fluency (software delivery lifecycle, APIs/integration concepts, cloud concepts, release orchestration) sufficient to coordinate technical teams and surface integration risks.
+ PMP, PRINCE2, Agile certification or SFIA-aligned capability preferred
Core Competencies
+ Executive stakeholder influence and governance
+ Program orchestration and multi-workstream dependency management
+ Market readiness planning and adoption/change management
+ Technical integration risk identification and mitigation
+ Vendor and partner management across global markets
+ Metrics-driven value realization and benefits tracking
+ Leadership and capability building for junior team members
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* Required Skills:
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* Measurement Analysis, Portfolio, Programme, and Project Support, Program Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Waterfall Model
** Preferred
Skills:
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* Current Employees apply HERE ($6687.htmld)
Current Contingent Workers apply HERE ($4020.htmld)
** US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:*
* Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please () if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.
As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans…
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