Director, Strategic Planning
Merck
9 hours ago
Remote friendly (North Wales, PA)
United States
Corporate Functions
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage a team of Associate Directors, providing direction, prioritization, and coaching to drive high performance and delivery.
- Own a portfolio of transformation initiatives aligned to enterprise strategic priorities, delivering end-to-end from strategy through deployment and value realization.
- Translate enterprise strategy into a transformation roadmap aligned to business outcomes and sequencing for maximum impact.
- Oversee pilot design, execution, and scaling; codify insights into repeatable playbooks.
- Drive capability deployment across brands/business units, ensuring adoption, change integration, and measurable value realization.
- Establish governance, tracking, and reporting to monitor progress, risks, and value delivery.
- Partner with senior leaders across Marketing, Review, Data, Market Access, and Global teams.
- Shape future-state operating models (AI-enabled workflows, embedded compliance, ecosystem-based delivery).
- Drive evolution of roles, ways of working, and organizational capabilities.
- Act as a senior thought partner to executive stakeholders.
- Champion agile ways of working and a test-and-learn culture.
- Ensure integration across initiatives to avoid fragmentation and drive cohesive Strategy Realization.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree (required); Master’s Degree (preferred).
- 10+ years related industry experience.
- 5+ years transformation or strategic planning experience.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams; established people manager in a matrix organization.
- Demonstrable change management experience (or certifications).
- Demonstrated experience executing transformational change plans across broad stakeholder groups.
- Comfortable managing multiple workstreams; experienced with external vendors.
- Strong executive presence, communication, and understanding of compliance concepts.
Preferred Skills:
- Direct customer experience; business owner experience (P&L/financial trade-offs).
- Systems thinking/design thinking/organizational behavior.
- Experience with digital, AI, or data-driven transformation.
Application:
- Apply via https://jobs.merck.com/us/en. Job posting end date: 06/10/2026 (effective until 11:59:59PM the day before). Requisition ID: R399977.
- Lead and manage a team of Associate Directors, providing direction, prioritization, and coaching to drive high performance and delivery.
- Own a portfolio of transformation initiatives aligned to enterprise strategic priorities, delivering end-to-end from strategy through deployment and value realization.
- Translate enterprise strategy into a transformation roadmap aligned to business outcomes and sequencing for maximum impact.
- Oversee pilot design, execution, and scaling; codify insights into repeatable playbooks.
- Drive capability deployment across brands/business units, ensuring adoption, change integration, and measurable value realization.
- Establish governance, tracking, and reporting to monitor progress, risks, and value delivery.
- Partner with senior leaders across Marketing, Review, Data, Market Access, and Global teams.
- Shape future-state operating models (AI-enabled workflows, embedded compliance, ecosystem-based delivery).
- Drive evolution of roles, ways of working, and organizational capabilities.
- Act as a senior thought partner to executive stakeholders.
- Champion agile ways of working and a test-and-learn culture.
- Ensure integration across initiatives to avoid fragmentation and drive cohesive Strategy Realization.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree (required); Master’s Degree (preferred).
- 10+ years related industry experience.
- 5+ years transformation or strategic planning experience.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams; established people manager in a matrix organization.
- Demonstrable change management experience (or certifications).
- Demonstrated experience executing transformational change plans across broad stakeholder groups.
- Comfortable managing multiple workstreams; experienced with external vendors.
- Strong executive presence, communication, and understanding of compliance concepts.
Preferred Skills:
- Direct customer experience; business owner experience (P&L/financial trade-offs).
- Systems thinking/design thinking/organizational behavior.
- Experience with digital, AI, or data-driven transformation.
Application:
- Apply via https://jobs.merck.com/us/en. Job posting end date: 06/10/2026 (effective until 11:59:59PM the day before). Requisition ID: R399977.