Executive Director, Digital Transformation & Delivery Excellence

Merck; Rahway (NJ); On-site; USD 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck in Rahway, New Jersey seeks an Executive leader to translate digital strategy into disciplined, multi-divisional execution across the IT organization. The role balances enterprise governance with divisional delivery, framing investment choices and leading transformation initiatives to realize value.

As the enterprise lead for the CIDO, you will drive cross-functional delivery, modernize IT ways of working, and accelerate capability scaling while partnering with Finance and senior sponsors

Responsibilities

• Advisory: Serve as a trusted advisor to CIDO and ITLT framing critical trade-offs, investment options, and ROI projections to shape the IT portfolio and roadmap.
• Roadmap & Value Realization: Translate strategic intent into an actionable, multi-year transformation portfolio with clear value milestones, tracking outcome delivery in close partnership with Finance and executive sponsors.
• Operating Rhythm & Executive Alignment: Facilitate an effective operating rhythm across the IT leadership team, ensuring cross-functional transparency, portfolio governance, and continuous operating model optimization.
• Executive Engagement Support: Partner with CIDO to support transformation progress, value realization metrics, technical debt posture, and strategic risks to the Executive Leadership.
• End-to-End Program Leadership: Direct the delivery of complex, cross-divisional programs and initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic priorities.

Job description

Role Summary

The individual in this role serves as the Chief Information & Digital Officer's (CIDO) enterprise lead for translating digital strategy into disciplined, multi-divisional execution. The role connects strategic priorities, investment decisions, delivery governance, and value realization across the IT organization. Balancing enterprise governance with divisional execution, the Executive Director frames critical investment and architectural choices, leads CIDO-sponsored transformation initiatives, accelerates cross-divisional delivery and value realization, modernizes Information Technology (IT) ways of working, scales next-generation capabilities, and advances workforce modernization.

Job Description

The individual in this role serves as the Chief Information & Digital Officer's (CIDO) enterprise lead for translating digital strategy into disciplined, multi-divisional execution. The role connects strategic priorities, investment decisions, delivery governance, and value realization across the IT organization. Balancing enterprise governance with divisional execution, the Executive Director frames critical investment and architectural choices, leads CIDO-sponsored transformation initiatives, accelerates cross-divisional delivery and value realization, modernizes Information Technology (IT) ways of working, scales next-generation capabilities, and advances workforce modernization.

Core Responsibilities & Strategic Accountabilities

• Advisory: Serve as a trusted advisor to CIDO and ITLT framing critical trade-offs, investment options, and ROI projections to shape the IT portfolio and roadmap.
• Roadmap & Value Realization: Translate strategic intent into an actionable, multi-year transformation portfolio with clear value milestones, tracking outcome delivery in close partnership with Finance and executive sponsors.
• Operating Rhythm & Executive Alignment: Facilitate an effective operating rhythm across the IT leadership team, ensuring cross-functional transparency, portfolio governance, and continuous operating model optimization.
• Executive Engagement Support: Partner with CIDO to support transformation progress, value realization metrics, technical debt posture, and strategic risks to the Executive Leadership.

Cross-Divisional Program Delivery

• End-to-End Program Leadership: Direct the delivery of complex