Assoc. Director, AI Transformation

MSD Malaysia; North Wales (Montgomery County); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Long-term incentive

401(k) retirement plan

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. seeks an Associate Director, AI Transformation to lead AI-enabled strategy for customer service platforms. You will partner with delivery and operations teams to map requirements to Salesforce/NiCE, define a strategic roadmap, and bridge traditional support with modern AI capabilities.

You will deploy AI solutions that improve efficiency and CSAT, establish KPIs, and ensure compliance with healthcare regulations. This hybrid role offers a competitive package and incentives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, business, health sciences, computer science, or related field.
• 5+ years of Salesforce and/or NiCE platform experience or similar CCaaS/CRM experience.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI, automation, or analytics in a regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of compliance, privacy, quality, and documentation standards in healthcare or life sciences.
• Effective communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent strategic thinking, project leadership, and change management skills.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret operational and performance data.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive cross-functional consensus.

Responsibilities

• Partner with delivery and operations support teams to map requirements to Salesforce and NiCE.
• Define and execute a strategic roadmap for customer service platforms.
• Bridge gap between traditional support and AI capabilities.
• Identify inefficiencies and deploy AI-driven solutions to reduce friction.
• Identify high-value use cases for AI, including agent assist, knowledge retrieval, call summarization, intent classification, quality monitoring, and trend analytics.
• Lead cross-functional governance for AI use including risk assessment and validation.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies for fit, scalability, regulatory readiness.
• Champion adoption of AI-enabled tools by CSC team.
• Define KPIs for AI tool adoption and CSAT impact.
• Ensure AI solutions comply with medical, legal, regulatory, privacy and pharmacovigilance requirements.
• Collaborate with QA and compliance for validation and content controls.
• Maintain alignment with SOPs and data privacy standards.

Job description

Job Description

Position Overview: Customer Service Centers (CSC) are advancing premier digital, data, and analytics capabilities to improve performance assessment and accelerate decision‑making across our remote two-way customer service engagements. The CSC team manages customer, consumer and employee service interactions in our Company's National Service Center, Field Service Center, and Promotional Contact Center. These interactions occur across several communication channels for all our Company's products/vaccines and company information requests. The CSC team also serves as the designated point of contact for the intake of adverse events, and product quality complaints for the U.S. market.

Role Summary

The Associate Director, AI Transformation is responsible for leading the strategy, implementation, and continuous improvement of AI-enabled capabilities. This role partners cross‑functionally to enhance customer experience, improve operational efficiency, strengthen quality and compliance, and enable scalable service delivery through the thoughtful application of AI, automation, and advanced analytics. This role will serve as a strategic business partner and subject matter leader, identifying opportunities to leverage emerging technologies across contact center operations, knowledge management, reporting, and workflow optimization. This role requires strong leadership, change management, and stakeholder engagement skills, as well as the ability to operate effectively in a regulated healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with delivery and operations support teams in mapping functional requirements to Salesforce and NiCE features and functionality.
• Define and execute a strategic roadmap for the customer service platforms.
• Bridge the gap between traditional support operations and modern AI capabilities.
• Identify inefficiencies and deploy AI-driven solutions that reduce friction for both customers and agents.
• Identify high‑value use cases for AI, including agent assist, knowledge retrieval, call summarization, intent classification, quality monitoring, and trend analytics.
• Lead cross-functional governance for AI use, including risk assessment, validation, change management, and ongoing performance monitoring.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and vendor solutions to determine fit for purpose, scalability, and regulatory readiness.
• Champion adoption of AI-enabled tools by CSC team.
• Define KPIs for AI tool adoption, deflection rates, CSAT impact, and operational cost savings.
• Ensure AI solutions operate within medical, legal, regulatory, privacy, and pharmacovigilance requirements.
• Collaborate with QA and compliance teams to establish validation, auditability, content controls, and human oversight processes.
• Help maintain alignment with standard operating procedures, data privacy standards, and documentation requirements.

Position Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, business, health sciences, computer science, or related field.
• 5+ years of Salesforce and/or NiCE platform experience or similar CCaaS/CRM experience.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI, automation, or analytics in a regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of compliance, privacy, quality, and documentation standards in healthcare or life sciences.
• Effective communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent strategic thinking, project leadership, and change management skills.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret operational and performance data.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive cross‑functional consensus.

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Experience implementing AI or automation solutions in healthcare, pharma, or customer service environments.
• Experience with change management frameworks and adoption planning.

Required Skills

• Ability to Coordinate, Business Informatics, Business Support, Change Management, Coaching Employees, Competency Management, Contact Center Management, Customer Care, Customer Centric Focus, Data Privacy, Direct Marketing.

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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 and individuals with disabilities.

For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit: EEOC Know Your Rights EEOC GINA Supplement.

Salary and Benefits

The salary range for this role is $129,000.00 - $203,100.00. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long‑term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days.

More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

Other Eligibility and Status

San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

Search Firm Representatives: Please Read Carefully Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Employee Status: Regular.

Relocation: No relocation.

VISA Sponsorship: No.

Travel Requirements: 10%.

Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid.

Shift: Not Indicated.

Valid Driving License: No.

Hazardous Material(s): N/A.

Job Posting End Date: 10/5/2026.

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Company Profile

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.