Director - Contacting and Customer Experience

MSD; Rahway (NJ); Hybrid; GBP 144,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Paid holidays

Vacation days

Sick days

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. in the United States is seeking a Director to lead Contracting and Customer Experience for the US Vaccines division. The role oversees a national team, drives customer-focused processes, and partners with field sales to meet contracting and ordering goals.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in sales/marketing or managed care with 3+ years people management, and a strong track record in customer relationship management and strategic leadership. Hybrid work arrangements apply.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher required; MBA preferred.
• Experience leading large teams and driving customer-focused outcomes.
• Strong strategic planning and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop contracting and customer experience teams.
• Drive customer-centric strategies across contracting and purchases.
• Monitor metrics and optimize processes to improve MVCC/VCAS performance.

Skills

Adaptability

Brand Management

Business Decisions

Customer Engagement

Sales Management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's in Business Administration

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

Director, Contracting and Customer Experience

The US Vaccines Contracting and Customer Experience team supports our customers’ vaccine contracting and ordering experience by providing outstanding customer service through contractual and ordering touchpoints. We assist our Field Sales Team, healthcare providers, and healthcare systems to help them meet their contractual and vaccine ordering goals.

Key Responsibilities

People Management

• Recruits, hires, and supervises the hiring of top talent to build a high-performing, diverse & customer-centric integrated national team.
• Sets appropriate expectations and assesses performance of direct reports, including team leaders.
• Rewards and retains team members based on results and by creating an environment supportive of growth and development.
• Supports and fosters a diverse and inclusive environment.
• Ensures understanding and continually reinforces principles of the commercial model and provides formal and informal feedback to Headquarter based team regarding the status of implementation.
• Responsible for leading ongoing organizational and cultural transformation within the contracting and customer experience divisions.
• Leads annual people management processes for employees (performance management, employee development, compensation & rewards); ensures ongoing feedback & coaching throughout the year to all employees to support achievement of assigned performance objectives.
• Prioritizes and allocates human resources across customers/accounts.

Customer Experience

• Has ultimate responsibility and ownership of the “customer experience” as it relates to contracting, managing customer account information, and purchasing processes through direct and/or indirect channels.
• Accountable for the teams’ delivery of customer experiences that demonstrate value and create trust.
• Implements an effective customer-centric approach, demonstrating the importance of the customer to our Company.
• Partners closely with sale team leadership to understand critical customer issues and opportunities to improve the customer experience, ensuring this understanding is incorporated into team plans.
• Works closely with Headquarter teams, including the OMC, BSC, CCM, and IAM, to ensure a quality and value-driven customer experience.
• Collaborates closely with other stakeholders to ensure consistency and seamless support across the customer base.

Strategic Portfolio Support

• Oversees the C&DS Development Team, guiding strategic content design, implementation of agile principles, resource stewardship, and operational guidelines to align customer support with business priorities.
• Directs promotions management and ensures the prioritization and correct, compliant application of promotion process and standards across all resources.
• Reviews operational metrics, queue times, service levels, and customer sentiment (via surveys and customer research) to drive continuous improvement in MVCC performance and VAS/VCAS engagement.

Education

• Required: Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science
• Preferred: Masters in Business Administration

Required

• Minimum of (10) years experience in Sales, Marketing or Managed Care - Pharmaceutical industry
• Minimum of (3) years People Management experience
• Minimum of (3) years experience developing and managing customer relationships

Technical/Functional Capability Requirements

• Create a strategic plan by integrating short, mid, and long-term objectives
• Formulate a strategic business plan based on customer business needs and available resources
• Clearly communicate and articulate a vision and strategy that motivates and energizes the region
• Understands the market environment - identification of customer segments and business drivers
• Assess business results against objectives and realign resources based on the assessment
• Enhance the selling skills and capabilities of the Representatives and Managers to optimize the customer experience

Critical Experience Requirements

• Translated division vision and strategy to directives and procedures
• Experience leading a large team-organization
• Experience in buy/bill therapeutic areas
• Marketing/brand experience or experience working closely with Headquarter brand teams.
• Made resource decisions and trade-offs to maximize business potential
• Identified and pursued opportunities for new products, services, and/or markets
• Delivered customer value
• Achieves results
• Experience managing a Profit & Loss
• Business analytics to review and evaluate performance trends across customer segments and geographies
• Analyze the human resource needs of the region to maximize the customer experience
• Experience managing contract sales force and customer call center

Leadership Capability Requirements

• Deliver Customer Value - ability and appreciation to clearly understand the customer and their unique needs; ability to translate understanding into effective development and delivery of relevant solutions
• Collaborate and relationship development
• Builds Talent
• Shape Strategy
• Makes Sound Business Decisions and Achieves Results

Required Skills

Adaptability, Adaptability, Brand Management, Business Decisions, Client Development, Competitor Analysis, Customer Centricity, Customer Engagement, Customer-Focused, Customer Management, Customer Relationship Building, Data Analysis, Executive Presence, Expectation Management, Financial Analysis, Goal Setting, High Performance Team Building, Hiring, Leadership Management, Market Opportunity Identification, Market Trends, People Leadership, Pricing Strategies, Product Management, Sales Management {+ 7 more}

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. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.

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 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

Salary

The salary range for this role is $190,800.00 - $300,300.00. 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.

Benefits

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.

Location & Work Arrangement

• 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

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.

Job Posting End Date

10/24/2026*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.