Merck Animal Health - Beef COE Lead Job at Merck & Co., Lenexa, KS

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  • Merck & Co.
  • Lenexa, KS

Job Description

Job Description

As the Beef COE Lead, you will be responsible for the planning and delivery of the technology roadmap for our beef business. This includes working with marketing and data teams during the ideation phase, managing requirements, overseeing development deliverables with core technology groups, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. You will also manage interfaces with commercial and services teams and provide strategic technical direction for the product roadmap.

Responsibilities:
  • Product strategy aligned with the Marketing strategy
  • Identify and specify market requirements, working closely with marketing, data, and commercial teams.
  • Translate marketing needs into technical requirements and ensure R&D receives complete user stories.
  • Plan, manage, and track all beef-related activities, ensuring holistic control and balance.
  • Ensure the roadmap aligns with the business's strategic objectives by setting proper project priorities, seeking optimization, and resolving conflicts.
  • Provide ongoing guidance and mentorship to ensure the fulfillment of program objectives.
  • Follow governance processes in species programs.
  • Build partnerships with marketing and other relevant stakeholders to promote continuous growth while ensuring daily business operations.
  • Manage the end-to-end product cycle from strategic roadmap creation, design, development, deployment, and user acceptance testing
  • Communicate market needs and time requirements to design and development teams
  • Define and validate product requirements with the market through customer and partner meetings
  • Create detailed Product Requirements Documentation (PRDs) and Marketing Requirements (MRD) based on marketing strategy
  • Manage both Feedlot COE and CowCalf COE, ensuring depth understanding of technology, compute science, and the beef market
  • Lead a team directly and manage many other teams in a matrix structure
  • Make rapid, independent decisions and lead with vision together with the commercial teams
  • Maintain close interfaces with our biggest customers and discuss with their senior level
  • Ensure support for the field and develop relevant needed features and products
Education
  • Bachelor's degree in relevant area of study
Qualifications:
  • 10 years experience in commercial or pharmaceutical background in beef
  • Strong background in program and product management, including both software and hardware.
  • Prior experience in creating Product Requirements Documentation (PRD's)
  • Ability to lead a team effectively, even without formal authority.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Experience in managing end-to-end programs and product development lifecycles.
  • Independent, proactive, and visionary manager with the ability to make tough decisions
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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 Company is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the salary range for this job in certain states and cities within the United States. Final determinations with respect to salary will take into account a number of factors, which may include, but not be limited to the primary work location and the chosen candidate's relevant skills, experience, and education.

Expected US salary range:
$164,800.00 - $259,400.00

Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here .

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

Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully-
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. -No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.-

Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:
No

Travel Requirements:
50%

Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid

Shift:
Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:
No

Hazardous Material(s):
N/A

Job Posting End Date:
04/25/2025
*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE -the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.

Requisition ID: R329569

Job Tags

Holiday work, Full time, For contractors, Local area, Remote job, Relocation, Visa sponsorship, Flexible hours, Shift work, 3 days per week,

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