Senior Scientist

Merck & Co., Inc. Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A. known as Merck in the United States and Canada, is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company – one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Primary activities include, but are not limited to:

• The Senior Scientist is responsible for enabling the business to maximize its technology investment to realize business outcomes.
• Support relationship and demand management with the antibody lead generation and protein production groups
• Document current and future state business process and information flow maps
• Is a subject matter expert as it relates to client business processes and the current business environment in which they operate in, and initiate improvements,
• Once the need for a solution is identified:
• Maintain the business case as it evolves
• Develop detailed functional requirement specification from high level business concepts
• Develop solution alternatives for business requirements and ensure alignment with IT Architecture
• Contribute to MERCK SDLC Deliverables
• Manage client and partner relationship through the project
• Planning for benefits and how they will be measured
• Understand and be able to navigate Merck's IT function, including engagement of solution delivery and other services
• Ensure business continuity, via properly addressing issues that affect running the business day-to-day and also as new solutions are deployed

Qualifications

Education:

• PhD in Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences or similar field with 2 years’ experience or a Bachelor's Degree or Masters with 7 years’ experience

Required:

• Knowledge of and experience with key wet lab technologies used to generate, screen and produce antibodies in a biotechnology/pharma setting
• Knowledge of and experience with in silico tools and standards used in the analysis of antibody sequences
• Ability to develop and articulate a plan of action, whether in support of strategy development or planning a roadmap. This plan must be clear, compelling and understandable, and flow in a logical fashion with supporting rationale as appropriate.
• Must be able to explain complex scientific concepts/needs to IT specialists and relevant technical concepts to scientists
• Demonstrated success in building positive and productive collaborative relationships with scientists and IT professionals
• Technical understanding of application architecture including servers, databases, and application interfaces
• Ability to succeed in a matrixed and geographically diverse work environment
• Ability to interface and influence at multiple organization levels and ability to tailor communication to audience

Preferred:

• Demonstrated requirements gathering skills through development of use cases and other methods and skills used in business analysis such as negotiation, decision making / trade off analysis, and problem solving skills
• Process mapping experience
• Project management experience (excluding financial systems)
• Experience with SDLC or equivalent
• Understand of data flow relationships and experience with driving data stewardship initiatives
• Change management skills
• Experience in SharePoint configuration
• Facilitative leadership skills
• Able to identify risks and appropriately manage through them