US Medical Affairs Health Systems, Director, Strategic Medical Implementation Lead (Rahway) Job at Merck, Rahway, NJ

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  • Merck
  • Rahway, NJ

Job Description

Job Description

Role Summary:

The USMA Health Systems (HS) Director, Strategic Medical Implementation Lead, plays a critical leadership role in advancing the strategic priorities of US Medical Affairs (USMA) across a dynamic and growing portfolio. Reporting to the AVP, Health Systems, this role is a key member of the USMA Health Systems Field Medical Leadership Team and drives alignment, innovation, and execution across the Health Systems field medical enterprise.


The USMA HS Director, Strategic Medical Implementation Lead, holds primary responsibility for integrating cross-functional (e.g., Medical Affairs, Integrated Account Management (IAM), Payer Marketing, Organized Customer Access and Reimbursement (OCAR) strategic direction into medical field execution to optimize impact across Strategic Accounts. In partnership with cross-portfolio stakeholders, the USMA HS Director, Strategic Medical Implementation Lead, leads strategic planning, communication, and innovation initiatives to ensure coordinated, data-driven, and future-ready engagement with the evolving healthcare ecosystem.

Responsibilities and Primary Activities:

Enterprise Strategy Integration

  • Advance non-therapeutic area strategic initiatives (i.e., quality, value and implementation) that shape the direction of USMA Health Systems field activities across Vaccines, Infectious Diseases, and General & Specialty Medicine.

  • Lead strategic alignment across multiple Regional Medical and Scientific Director (RMSD) teams and the Health Systems Oncology (HSO) team, including Medical Account Planning, joint initiatives, etc.

  • Serve as a critical connector between overall Health Systems strategy and product-level strategies, ensuring collaboration with Integrated Account Management (IAM), Strategic Insights Team, Payer Marketing, Organized Customer Access & Reimbursement (OCAR), and other enterprise partners.

Leadership & Strategic Execution

  • Influence field medical planning through collaboration with FMADs, PASLs, and SDMAs to ensure coordinated execution and prioritization.

  • Support strategic communications, leadership alignment, and executional excellence across all touchpoints between Headquarters and the Field.

  • Partner with leadership on culture-shaping initiatives, team development, and performance enablement to ensure a high-performing, innovative, and agile field medical organization.

Field Medical Innovation and Enablement

  • Drive simplification, innovation, efficiency and effectiveness across field medical health systems, tools, and processes to increase agility and measurable outcomes.

  • Lead and evolve strategic frameworks for initiative reporting, Medical Affairs / Commercial meetings, medical leadership reviews, and impact communications.

  • Manage and enhance the US Value & Implementation Goal tracking, aligning resources to support major initiatives with robust 30/60/90-day milestone tracking.

Performance Measurement & Analytics

  • Lead Health Systems value creation by identifying areas of high impact and translating into messaging that resonates with senior leadership.

  • Develop and assess team data and analytics via KPI dashboards, scorecards, and other analytics systems to track performance against team goals and impact metrics.

  • Identify and accelerate best practices across HS MADs and cross-functional partners through data-driven insights.

  • Co-lead the development of impact reports in partnership with the Executive Director to highlight progress and strategic contributions.

Required Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

Minimum:

  • Advanced healthcare/science doctoral degree (e.g., MD, PharmD, PhD)

  • 5+ years field medical affairs experience, including: 2 or more years as a HS/Payer Medical Liaison OR equivalent

  • Agile mindset, ability to multitask among many competing priorities, and ability to work across a diverse portfolio along the product life-cycle

  • Ability to handle a demanding and changing workload and respond efficiently to timelines and changing market events

  • Excellent interpersonal, analytical, strategic, and tactical planning, project management, communication, and organization skills

  • Exceptional ability to effectively communicate information to internal and external stakeholders at all levels (e.g., senior leadership, management and individual contributor) and create presentation concepts and slides that are visually appealing with compelling content

  • Commitment to keeping team members, departmental colleagues (as appropriate), and management fully apprised of project/initiative status and issues

  • Proven ability to work with cross-functional Matrix teams and collaborate across multiple stakeholder groups (e.g., therapeutic areas)

  • Working knowledge of development and application of evidence base, real world analytics, health economics and outcomes research in defining the value proposition of products

  • Proven track record of contribution to commercial and medical development strategies within the pharmaceutical industry

  • Strategy lead and/or additional experience in a strategy and operations type role preferred (including experience working in managed care /health systems)

  • Team lead or management experience preferred but not required

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As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.

U.S. Hybrid Work Model

Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

The salary range for this role is

$187,000.00 - $294,400.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at .

You can apply for this role through (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

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