Oncology Operations & Capacity Planning Lead

Merck; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 157,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Merck in the United States is seeking a Commercial Operations Leader for the Intismeran program. You will own operational demand planning, capacity planning, and analytics across the treatment ecosystem, partnering across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and alliance teams to align demand with capacity and drive data-driven decisions.

Reporting to the Director, this role will establish governance, performance dashboards, and forecasting capabilities to enable scalable launch readiness and long-term

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years in pharmaceutical or biotechnology industries.
• Experience leading operational planning, capacity planning, analytics, or performance frameworks.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate complex operational, manufacturing, customer, and market data to actionable business insights for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the operational demand planning and capacity planning for Intismeran, developing patient volume projections, manufacturing demand assumptions, network capacity plans, and business scenarios required to support launch readiness, commercialization, and future growth.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Precision Medicine, alliance stakeholders, and external partners to align projected demand with manufacturing availability, and operational readiness, proactively identifying risks and recommending mitigation strategies.
• Develop and maintain capacity planning and scenario modeling capabilities, assessing the impact of changing demand, treatment site expansion, manufacturing constraints, and operational capacity on treatment completion and business performance.
• Establish and oversee the operational intelligence framework for the Intismeran treatment journey, including performance dashboards, operational KPIs, demand and capacity models executive reporting, and control tower analytics that provide real-time visibility across the ecosystem.
• Translate complex operational, logistics, manufacturing, customer, and market data into actionable business insights and strategic recommendations, enabling data-driven decision making across leadership teams and governance forums.
• Lead operational performance management and business review processes, evaluating demand-plan assumptions, capacity utilization, treatment completion performance, operational cycle times, partner effectiveness, and overall ecosystem performance to identify improvement opportunities.
• Drive operational excellence and continuous improvement initiatives across the treatment ecosystem, leveraging analytics and predictive insights to strengthen demand and capacity planning, optimize capacity, enhance operational efficiency, mitigate risk, and support long-term scalability.

Skills

Adaptability

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Project management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Job description

Merck in the United States is seeking a Commercial Operations Leader for the Intismeran program. You will own operational demand planning, capacity planning, and analytics across the treatment ecosystem, partnering across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and alliance teams to align demand with capacity and drive data-driven decisions.

Reporting to the Director, this role will establish governance, performance dashboards, and forecasting capabilities to enable scalable launch readiness and long-term