Digital Quality Product Line Lead
Merck
August 31, 2026
Remote friendly (De Soto, KS)
United States
Operations
Responsibilities:
- Own the Digital Quality Product Line vision and multi-year roadmap aligned to Animal Health Quality, Lab, and IT strategies.
- Define and prioritize the product backlog based on enterprise value, regulatory risk, and business outcomes.
- Drive standardization and reuse of digital quality and lab capabilities across sites and regions.
- Lead design, implementation, and global rollout of Quality and Lab digital products.
- Ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose, compliant, secure, and resilient; maximize value from existing platforms and identify enhancement/modernization/rationalization opportunities.
- Ensure adherence to GxP regulations, Computer System Validation (CSV), and transition toward CSA/OneCQV-aligned approaches.
- Act as primary IT partner for Quality and Lab leadership, translating business needs into digital capabilities.
- Drive adoption via change management, training strategies, and communities of practice.
- Lead and develop product owners, solution leads, and delivery teams (internal and external).
- Scan emerging technologies (AI/ML, automation, analytics) to improve quality decisions and lab efficiency.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, Life Sciences, or related field.
- 7+ years’ experience in Quality, Laboratory, Manufacturing, or GxP IT environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading digital product lines or large-scale platforms in regulated industries.
- Strong knowledge of QMS, LIMS, SDLC, CSV/CSA, and inspection readiness.
- Proven ability to lead global, cross-functional teams and influence senior stakeholders.
Required Skills:
- Apache Kafka; Benefits Management; Big Data; Big Data Analytics; Business Analysis; Business Process Improvements; Configuration Management (CM); DevOps; Effort Estimation; Full Stack Development; Governance Management; GraphQL; GxP Regulations; IT Methodologies; Life Science; Microservices Architecture; Neo4j; Product Management Leadership; Program Management; Python; RabbitMQ; Red Hat Ansible; Redis Database; Software Development.
- Own the Digital Quality Product Line vision and multi-year roadmap aligned to Animal Health Quality, Lab, and IT strategies.
- Define and prioritize the product backlog based on enterprise value, regulatory risk, and business outcomes.
- Drive standardization and reuse of digital quality and lab capabilities across sites and regions.
- Lead design, implementation, and global rollout of Quality and Lab digital products.
- Ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose, compliant, secure, and resilient; maximize value from existing platforms and identify enhancement/modernization/rationalization opportunities.
- Ensure adherence to GxP regulations, Computer System Validation (CSV), and transition toward CSA/OneCQV-aligned approaches.
- Act as primary IT partner for Quality and Lab leadership, translating business needs into digital capabilities.
- Drive adoption via change management, training strategies, and communities of practice.
- Lead and develop product owners, solution leads, and delivery teams (internal and external).
- Scan emerging technologies (AI/ML, automation, analytics) to improve quality decisions and lab efficiency.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, Life Sciences, or related field.
- 7+ years’ experience in Quality, Laboratory, Manufacturing, or GxP IT environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading digital product lines or large-scale platforms in regulated industries.
- Strong knowledge of QMS, LIMS, SDLC, CSV/CSA, and inspection readiness.
- Proven ability to lead global, cross-functional teams and influence senior stakeholders.
Required Skills:
- Apache Kafka; Benefits Management; Big Data; Big Data Analytics; Business Analysis; Business Process Improvements; Configuration Management (CM); DevOps; Effort Estimation; Full Stack Development; Governance Management; GraphQL; GxP Regulations; IT Methodologies; Life Science; Microservices Architecture; Neo4j; Product Management Leadership; Program Management; Python; RabbitMQ; Red Hat Ansible; Redis Database; Software Development.