Strategic Transformation Lead

Socket.dev; North Wales (Montgomery County); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays

Vacation

Sick days

Job summary

Merck & Co., Inc. in Rahway, NJ, invites applications for an Associate Director, Strategy Realization & Transformation Enablement.

You will drive governance and execution of the transformation program, turning priorities into actionable roadmaps with measurable outcomes. Reporting to the Transformation Management Office, you will partner with senior leaders to align workstreams, manage dependencies, and deliver value through disciplined planning, executive communications, and adoption of new

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Master’s Degree preferred.
• 7+ years of professional work experience.
• Proven professional knowledge and experience in Program Management and Project Management.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment to advance a common goal.
• Experience with agile ways of working and test-and-learn approaches.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Analytical mindset with ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Demonstrated experience leading and managing complex, cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and coordination for complex transformation initiatives, ensuring workstreams are organized around clear objectives, milestones, timelines, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Translate strategic priorities into practical execution plans, integrated roadmaps, and governance-ready materials.
• Support transformation design and mobilization by helping define scope, ways of working, stakeholder alignment, meeting cadences, and operating rhythms.
• Establish and support governance forums, sponsor updates, leadership reviews, decision logs, escalation paths, and accountability mechanisms.
• Prepare executive-level materials that summarize progress, risks, decisions, tradeoffs, dependencies, and areas requiring leadership attention.
• Act as an integrator across workstreams, capabilities, functions, and programs to ensure transformation initiatives are connected, sequenced, and aligned to broader goals.
• Identify and manage cross-program dependencies, sequencing considerations, capacity constraints, risks, and prioritization needs.
• Maintain integrated plans, RAID logs, milestone trackers, dependency maps, status reports, and leadership dashboards.
• Define, track, and report progress against transformation objectives, milestones, KPIs, adoption measures, and expected business outcomes.
• Partner with change management teams to monitor readiness, stakeholder engagement, adoption risks, and organizational capacity to absorb change.
• Develop clear, concise, leadership-ready communications that connect transformation activity to strategy, outcomes, decisions, and value.
• Help mature the TMO from program coordination toward portfolio orchestration, strategy realization, value insight, and executive decision enablement.

Skills

Program management

Project management

Ambiguity management

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile methodologies

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Merck & Co., Inc. in Rahway, NJ, invites applications for an Associate Director, Strategy Realization & Transformation Enablement.

You will drive governance and execution of the transformation program, turning priorities into actionable roadmaps with measurable outcomes. Reporting to the Transformation Management Office, you will partner with senior leaders to align workstreams, manage dependencies, and deliver value through disciplined planning, executive communications, and adoption of new