Job Description
Position Overview:
Our Human Health Digital, Data and Analytics team is innovating how we understand our patients and their needs. Working cross functionally, we are inventing new ways of communicating, measuring, and interacting with our customers and patients leveraging digital, data and analytics.
Are you passionate about helping people see, understand, and interact with data? You will take part in an exciting journey to help transform our organization to be the premier data-driven company by 2023. As a Sr. Specialist, Data Visualization you will design and develop of high-quality, compelling data visualization products to drive programmatic decision making, learning and adaptation for the Vaccines, Chronic Care, and Hospital business units. You will collaborate with stakeholders to understand user needs and data use cases, and then develop clear and compelling data products that transform data into interactive and dynamic visualizations to convey analytical insights, demonstrate results, and communicate analytical findings. You will create understanding and empathy around user needs, stated and unstated, for the Human Health Commercial Analytics team.
Responsibilities:
Creating analytical tools that enable users to assess progress to KPIs, as well as to answer critical business questions for the Vaccines, Chronic Care, and Hospital business units
Managing project timelines to enable accurate reporting and functionality during enterprise system transformations
Managing diverse projects and processes within Sales, Marketing, and Operations Teams
Champion data quality, integrity, and reliability throughout the department by designing and promoting best practices
Lead business requirement sessions with stakeholders
Coordinate with IT and vendors on business requirements for new reporting needs to support field sales and HQ reporting
Test and deploy new capabilities using BI and reporting applications
Create new visualizations to enable informed business decisions on strategy and execution
Managing vendor relationships to ensure business requirements are clearly articulated and executed
Provide BI training to stakeholders to foster increased understanding and utilization of the information provided
Experience and skills:
Education requirement: BA/BS
Experience delivering business intelligence solutions
Proven analytics and problem-solving skills
Working experience and skill using BI tools such as Qlik, Power BI, Tableau, and Spotfire
Strong presentation and collaboration skills and the ability to communicate all aspects of the job requirements
Effective communication skills with an ability to process technical information and translate clearly and concisely to broad audiences
Strong judgment, prioritization, and decision-making skills, with understanding of broader context for the Vaccines, Chronic Care, and Hospital business units
Innovative thinking, with affinity toward experimentation and appropriate risk taking
Strong understanding of all compliance-related concepts, including the laws, regulations and policies that govern pharmaceutical marketing and sales activities
Self-motivation, proactivity, and ability to work independently with minimum direction
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to navigate a complex matrix environment while organizing/prioritizing work efficiently and effectively
Demonstrated ability to collaborate and lead diverse groups of work colleagues and positively manage ambiguity
Preferred Experience and Skills:
Experience in leveraging and managing third party vendors and contractors
Experience in Pharma and/or Biotech Industry
Experience working with pharmaceutical sales and/or marketing data
Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.
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 inventing for life, 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.
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
10%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Remote Work
Shift:
Not Indicated
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
Requisition ID:R223530