Geography Lead, Data & Ops - Associate Director

Merck; North Wales (Montgomery County); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck in the United States seeks an Associate Director, Geography Lead to oversee day-to-day data-management operations within the assigned geography, ensuring efficiency, quality and compliance. You will partner with regional leaders to promote consistent practices and staff development across sites while aligning with GDMS standards.

This role emphasizes staffing, forecasting workloads, budgeting, and driving continuous improvement through collaboration with process and quality partners.

Qualifications

• Exceptional communication and influencing skills across functions and geographies.
• Effective coach, mentor and developing direct reports to high performance.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration capabilities.
• Ability to lead through influence without direct reporting authority.
• Highly adaptable and resilient under pressure in a fast-changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day data-management execution within the assigned geography.
• Review and input on work performed by direct reports and teams.
• Develop local teams and align with GDMS standards and onboarding.
• Coordinate workload forecasting, capacity/utilization and metrics.
• Ensure GDMS processes, regulatory compliance and inspection readiness.
• Lead recruiting, budgeting and performance management activities.
• Foster cross-regional consistency and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Coach, inspire and empower staff to achieve high performance.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Coaching & mentoring

Decision making

Cross-functional collaboration

Influencing

Adaptability

Problem solving

Tools

Workload planning systems

Performance metric tools

Continuous improvement methodologies

Job description

Merck in the United States seeks an Associate Director, Geography Lead to oversee day-to-day data-management operations within the assigned geography, ensuring efficiency, quality and compliance. You will partner with regional leaders to promote consistent practices and staff development across sites while aligning with GDMS standards.

This role emphasizes staffing, forecasting workloads, budgeting, and driving continuous improvement through collaboration with process and quality partners.