Global Digital Quality Platform Lead

Merck & Co.; De Soto (KS); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) retirement benefits

Paid holidays and vacation

Sick days and benefits for employees

Job summary

Merck & Co. is seeking a Senior Digital Quality Product Leader to own the vision for a multi-year product line spanning Quality, Lab, and IT strategies. You will influence senior stakeholders, drive global rollouts, and ensure compliant, secure solutions across sites and regions.

Responsibilities include roadmap prioritization, lifecycle management, and leveraging AI/ML and analytics to improve quality decisions while modernizing legacy platforms.

Qualifications

• Led digital product lines or large-scale platforms in regulated industries.
• Strong knowledge of QMS, LIMS, SDLC, CSV/CSA, and inspection readiness.
• Experience guiding global, cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the Digital Quality Product Line vision and multi-year roadmap.
• Define and prioritize the product backlog based on value and risk.
• Drive standardization and reuse of digital quality and lab capabilities.
• Lead design, implementation, and global rollout of digital products.
• Ensure solutions are compliant, secure, and lifecycle-resilient.
• Translate business needs into digital capabilities as IT partner.
• Drive adoption via change management and training strategies.
• Mentor product owners, solution leads, and delivery teams.
• Scan for emerging technologies to enhance quality decisions.

Skills

Digital product leadership

Regulatory risk management

Stakeholder influence

Cloud/DevOps mindset

Product lifecycle management

Data analytics

AI/ML awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT, Engineering, Life Sciences

Tools

Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ

Neo4j

Red Hat Ansible

Redis

GraphQL

Job description

Merck & Co. is seeking a Senior Digital Quality Product Leader to own the vision for a multi-year product line spanning Quality, Lab, and IT strategies. You will influence senior stakeholders, drive global rollouts, and ensure compliant, secure solutions across sites and regions.

Responsibilities include roadmap prioritization, lifecycle management, and leveraging AI/ML and analytics to improve quality decisions while modernizing legacy platforms.