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Merck & Co., Inc. in Hyderabad is seeking an experienced Salesforce Administrator to maintain and extend our Salesforce CRM across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Life Sciences Cloud initiatives.
You will manage user access, run training, gather requirements, and drive no-code improvements with flows and pages. This role emphasizes governance, collaboration, and continuous improvement within a global Animal Health IT team.
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy. A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
We are looking for a Salesforce Administrator to be part of our company’s Animal Health IT team. Your main responsibility will be to play a vital role in the administration and maintenance of our Salesforce CRM instance - using your technical knowledge, creativity, user-centric mindset and communication skills to support and enhance the tools our teams need to deliver outstanding support to our customers. We are looking for a proactive individual that can help us continually improve and enhance our Salesforce platform, gathering requirements and feedback, designing scalable best practice solutions, and managing the product road map. Our Salesforce user experience is of great importance to us; therefore the Salesforce Administrator should enjoy all aspects of user management including support tickets, training, and designing solutions with user satisfaction a priority. You will enjoy mentoring other Salesforce Admins and working alongside our other technical product owners and business partners. We are looking for someone with a deep understanding of the Salesforce platform, who can understand both our current setup and our business objectives, in order to quickly identify areas of improvement. The Salesforce Administrator should be comfortable with change management and governance, as well as communicating, prioritising and managing all aspects of a Salesforce project. The ideal candidate will be happy liaising with stakeholders at all levels, with the ability to translate technical information into layman’s terms, clearly explaining design options and their potential impact. This role is an opportunity to demonstrate your skills and grow your experience across Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, data, AppExchange solutions, Experience Cloud, integrations and user experience. You’ll also be responsible for testing, increasing user adoption, promoting best practice, supporting end-user training, business analysis and driving efficiency using automation.
You are an experienced Salesforce Administrator who is passionate about delivering a great experience to our users and are an advocate for technology and how it can support our business and its customers. You are a great communicator and are experienced at helping teams working on the Salesforce platform solve their challenges and achieve their goals by providing solutions, training and guidance. You have a record of success in improving processes and adoption using the Salesforce platform and have some experience facilitating and collaborating with teams across the organisation to gather and document their requirements. You are forward thinking, enjoy learning, are comfortable working in a fast-changing environment and thrive when working as part of a close-knit team to deliver outstanding results. If you don’t know how to solve an issue, you are determined to find an answer or solution and be comfortable asking for help, consulting experts within and outside of the organization and then sharing that knowledge with other team members.
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 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.
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 intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
Employee Status: Regular
Relocation: Domestic
VISA Sponsorship: No
Travel Requirements: No Travel Required
Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid
Shift: Not Indicated
Valid Driving License: No
Hazardous Material(s): n/a
Job Posting End Date: 09/15/2026
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Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where we have codified our legacy for over a century. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.