Associate Director, Global Supply Chain Planning

MSD; Rahway (NJ); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. in Rahway, NJ, seeks an Associate Director of Supply Chain Management to lead global demand and production planning solutions, with hands-on Kinaxis Maestro and SAP ECC/S4 expertise.

You will drive scalable architectures, set design standards, and oversee multi-site deployments. You will partner with product owners and site leads to translate strategy into roadmaps, manage backlogs, and optimize scheduling performance while delivering data-driven improvements and AI-enabled

Qualifications

• Ten or more (10+) years of technical solution experience in supply chain, production planning, and site planning.
• Extensive hands-on experience in Kinaxis Maestro authoring and Enterprise Scheduling with certification.
• Extensive SAP experience across APO Demand Planning, Supply Planning, PP/DS, MRP, and master data management.
• AI/Agent-based solutions for Supply Chain Planning needs, including design and automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical design of production planning and detailed scheduling solutions with the Product Owner, architects, and site leads.
• Translate business strategy, supply chain goals, and site needs into a unified scheduling roadmap and architecture.
• Set design standards, integration patterns, and data models for scalable, high-performing deployments.
• Lead configuration, development, data orchestration, ERP, MES, and analytics integrations for scheduling and site planning applications such as SAP and Kinaxis Maestro.
• Own global technical rollouts, including deployment, readiness, cutover, and testing.
• Partner with the Product Owner on backlog, priorities, and releases while aligning with enterprise, solution, and data architects.
• Lead data-driven resolution of complex planning and scheduling issues, identifying constraints and optimization opportunities.
• Improve algorithms, configurations, and processes to enhance service, efficiency, and solution quality.
• Use AI-driven automation to improve productivity across planning communities.

Skills

Automation

Capacity Management

Kinaxis Maestro

SAP APO Demand Planning

Demand Forecasting

Site Planning

Supply Chain Management

Product Management

Release Management

Manufacturing Resource Planning

Constraints Management

Management System Development

SAP SCM APO Demand Planning

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in supply chain management, industrial engineering, information systems, computer science, business management, or related field

Tools

Kinaxis Maestro

SAP ECC/S4

ERP

MES

Job description

Merck & Co., Inc. in Rahway, NJ, seeks an Associate Director of Supply Chain Management to lead global demand and production planning solutions, with hands-on Kinaxis Maestro and SAP ECC/S4 expertise.

You will drive scalable architectures, set design standards, and oversee multi-site deployments. You will partner with product owners and site leads to translate strategy into roadmaps, manage backlogs, and optimize scheduling performance while delivering data-driven improvements and AI-enabled