Global Laboratory Platform Leader – Product & Adoption

Merck; West Point (PA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck is seeking a Director to lead the product strategy, experience, implementation, and value realization of a global laboratory digital platform within Digital Manufacturing and the laboratory domain.

The role connects opportunities across Research, Development, Manufacturing, Quality, and IT to translate needs into a roadmap, scalable capabilities, and meaningful improvements in laboratory work, enabling richer analytics and informed decision‑making across the network.

Qualifications

• Shape product vision and translate it into a sequenced roadmap with measurable outcomes.
• Establish product operating model, governance, and demand-management practices.
• Convene cross-functional partners to identify opportunities and guide them to value realization.
• Monitor startups, technology providers, and scientific ecosystems to sustain outside‑in innovation.
• Provide leadership from discovery through deployment, with ongoing user feedback loops.

Responsibilities

• Lead product stewardship, community engagement, and end‑to‑end user experience from discovery to continuous evolution.
• Define implementation strategy, release sequencing, readiness criteria, and adoption metrics.
• Mobilize a multidisciplinary delivery network across product, design, architecture, engineering, data, and security.
• Translate product choices into secure, scalable, interoperable capabilities with data‑driven decision‑making.
• Define success measures, adoption indicators, and benefits for major capabilities; ensure ongoing improvement.

Skills

Product Strategy

Cross‑Domain Collaboration

Product Ownership

Platform Delivery

Innovation Monitoring

User Experience

Stakeholder Engagement

Data Analytics

Cloud & APIs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, Engineering, Life Sciences, Business, Design

Job description

Merck is seeking a Director to lead the product strategy, experience, implementation, and value realization of a global laboratory digital platform within Digital Manufacturing and the laboratory domain.

The role connects opportunities across Research, Development, Manufacturing, Quality, and IT to translate needs into a roadmap, scalable capabilities, and meaningful improvements in laboratory work, enabling richer analytics and informed decision‑making across the network.