Associate Director, Content Capabilities Lead

MSD Malaysia; North Wales (Montgomery County); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision benefits

401(k) plan

Paid holidays & vacation

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. seeks an Associate Director, Content Capabilities Lead to drive adoption, governance, and business value of content capabilities across the organization.

You will align with operations, technology, and transformation teams to shape roadmaps and deliver scalable, integrated solutions. In this role you will lead readiness activities, engage senior leaders, and champion continuous improvement while balancing current needs with future-state requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Information Systems, Digital, or related field.
• 8+ years in digital, marketing, content operations, governance, or related areas with large-scale initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate opportunities and inform capability investments and priorities.
• Partner with technology teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Champion a vision for an integrated content ecosystem and future-state operating model.
• Prioritize requirements, backlog, dependencies, and future enhancements with stakeholders.
• Lead change management, training, communications, and adoption for internal teams and partners.
• Build relationships with capability leads and monitor governance and implementation plans.
• Track feedback and outcomes to drive continuous improvement and roadmap alignment.
• Identify opportunities for standardization, transparency, and faster time-to-market.

Skills

Adaptability

Marketing technology

Agile methodology

Content operations

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing

Tools

CMS platforms

Job description

Job Description Position Overview:

The Associate Director, Content Capabilities Lead serves as the business lead for content capabilities, driving their adoption, evolution, governance, and business value realization across the organization. The individual partners closely with operations, technology, and transformation stakeholders to define and prioritize business requirements, shape capability roadmaps, and ensure content capabilities evolve to meet business objectives, stakeholder needs, and future‑state operating model requirements. As a key connector across CEI, US Content Op Model, OMM, Content Accelerator, and DHH, this individual drives alignment across the content capabilities ecosystem. They balance current business needs with long‑term capability advancement while championing a culture of continuous improvement through stakeholder feedback, performance insights, and evolving business priorities. The role drives adoption, enhances user experience, and maximizes the business value delivered by content capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluate business opportunities, challenges, and emerging needs to inform capability investments and enhancement priorities.
• Partner with technology teams to translate business requirements into scalable solutions and capability enhancements.
• Champion a vision for an integrated ecosystem that meets current business needs while enabling the future‑state content operating model.
• Partner with key stakeholders to prioritize business requirements, capability backlog, dependencies, and future‑state enhancements in alignment with enterprise transformation objectives and the HH Transformation Management Office.
• Lead business readiness activities, including stakeholder engagement, change management, training, user communications, and adoption support for internal teams and agency partners.
• Build strong working relationships with capability leads, monitor issue resolution, and collaborate on business‑facing documentation, governance, and implementation planning.
• Monitor user feedback and implementation outcomes, and align with stakeholders on enhancement opportunities to drive continuous improvement and inform the forward roadmap.
• Identify opportunities for standardization, simplification, transparency, traceability, and improved speed to market.

Position Qualifications:

• Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Information Systems, Digital, Communications, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in digital, marketing, content operations, marketing governance, marketing technology, or related fields, including experience leading large‑scale capability implementation or transformation initiatives.
• Experience working in Agile or sprint‑based marketing environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting platform implementation, business process design, implementation planning, and adoption of technology‑enabled workflows in a complex organizational environment.
• Strong understanding of marketing technology ecosystems, agile ways of working, content development workflows, and cross‑functional operating models.
• Experience partnering effectively with technology teams, vendors, agencies, and cross‑functional business stakeholders to deliver integrated solutions.
• Experience leading change management, capability training, stakeholder engagement, and user adoption strategies for new capabilities or platforms.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, and value propositions clearly to senior leaders and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem‑solving, prioritization, and execution skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and influence stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
• Ability to work hybrid at least 3 days per week at our North Wales (Upper Gwynedd), Pennsylvania office.

Required Skills:

• Adaptability, Adaptability, Advertising Campaign Development, Agile Methodology, Building Capability, Business Alignment, Business Decisions, Business Informatics, Business Needs, Business Process Improvements, Business Requirements Analysis, Business Transformation, Business Workflow Analysis, Capability Mapping, Change Management, Creative Campaign Development, Decision Making, Digital Analytics, Marketing Budget Management, Marketing Strategy Implementation, Market Research, Operating Models, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pricing Strategies, Principles of Marketing {+ 9 more}

Preferred Skills:

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• 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. 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. We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts.

The salary range for this role is $142,400.00 - $224,100.00. 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.

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Employee Status: Regular Relocation: Domestic VISA Sponsorship: No Travel Requirements: 10% Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid Shift: Not Indicated Valid Driving License: No Hazardous Material(s): N/A

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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.