Job Description

Specialist Technical Project Management

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130-year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Join a team that is passionate about using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making and create custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's IT operating model, Tech Centres are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in the growth, success, and well-being of our people to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging, to managing critical emergencies. Together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Product Manager to own the strategic direction, reliability, and scalability of our end-to-end clinical platform ecosystem. This ecosystem — spanning data capture, trial data management and monitoring, analysis & reporting, and regulatory submission systems — directly enables clinical pipeline operations and the delivery of therapies to patients.
You will serve as the point of accountability for ecosystem health, driving proactive reliability, cross-platform risk management, and scalable sustainment capabilities. You will balance short-term operational needs with long-term platform evolution, ensuring the ecosystem is always ready to support regulatory milestones without disruption.

What will you do

Define and maintain a unified sustainment roadmap across all clinical platform components
- Evolve CPS from reactive incident response to predictive, data-driven reliability management
- Provide stakeholder updates with consolidated views of ecosystem health, risks, and investment needs
- Work with the business to identify business value for our initiatives and determine the best way to measure that our solutions achieve the targeted business value

 What should you have

 Education:

 Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related experience

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum 1-4 years of experience as a ProductManager/Business Analyst or similar role
• Experience with working within a global team
• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities and coordinate across multiple stakeholders.
• Self-driven and able to work independently.

Primary Skills

• Experience managing project budgets, performing cost estimations, analyzing financial data, ensuring compliance with financial regulations, and making informed decisions to optimize resource allocation and project investments 

• Proven experience in leading complex technical projects in a fast-paced environment. 

• Strong technical background with knowledge of software development, systems integration, or related areas 

• Excellent organizational and decision-making skills. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities 

• Proficiency in project management tools (JIRA, Confluence, Trello, MS Project) 

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills to liaise with cross-functional teams 

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and adapt to changing priorities 

Who we are:

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for lives, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for:

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Required Skills:

Business Analysis, Business Analysis, Business Case Development, Business Management, Business Process Design, Change Management, Computer Science, Customer Project Management, Data Capturing, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Incident Management, Information Systems, Information Systems Management, Investment Management, Investment Risk Management, IT Automation, IT Infrastructure Management, IT Solution Design, Network Infrastructure Management, Portfolio Risk Management, Project Deliverables, Risk Management, Technical Problem Resolution, Technology Adaptation, Training Content Development {+ 2 more}

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Not Applicable

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

07/14/2026

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