Product Line Lead

**Product Line Lead**
- Opportunity to **be a part of Program / Project Management organization in Singapore**:

- **Based in Singapore,** the regional hub for Asia Pacific (AP) and top-ranked biopharmaceutical company on The Straits Times and Statista’s list of Best Employers in Singapore for two consecutive years (2020, 2021).
- Join the **premier biopharmaceutical company** that has been in Singapore for more than **25 years and in AP for over 60 years.**

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**

**Primary Responsibilities**
- Collaborating with various Product Line Leads, Business Stakeholders, Leadership Team to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements.
- Managing the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing priorities.
- Overseeing all stages of product creation including design, development and deployment.
- Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process.
- Liaising with the product team, delivery team and leadership team to deliver updates and tracking.
- Managing & leading a product team and delivery team from multiple regions virtually.
- Participating in Agile ceremonies and provide direction.
- Works closely with the SMEs, Vendors and other Product Lines in their product vertical to understand the product roadmap, strategy, and the individual business problems.
- Develop and convey compelling and convincing cases for platform solutions & services to drive expansion of existing platform capabilities.
- Define the Product Line strategies and roadmaps
- Drive the commercial platform through the enablement of capabilities and solutions that will drive adoption and capability re-use within our Company
- Responsible for scoping/estimating solution(s) required to address customer requirements, assessing customers met and unmet needs, and recommending solutions that optimize value for the customer.
- Support business case creation and client proposals
- Own and execute on all facets of the product life cycle, including post release strategy
- Manages and tracks product development work, especially when the work spans multiple scrum / delivery teams
- Drives activities to increase adoption of assigned products, such as developing content, tools, and training.
- Demonstrates produced value from completed sprints to the relevant stakeholders

**Education Minimum Requirement**:
BSc Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related business field.

**Required Experience and Skills**:

- 8 - 10 years of relevant experience IT Implementation.
- Prior experience working effectively within a virtual team, taking strategic direction from leadership and considering inputs from team members.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to effectively influence others without direct authority.
- Experience in defining Product Roadmap/Strategies and Prioritization.
- Prior experience collecting business requirements, and documenting business processes.
- Prior experience translating business requirements into scalable and reusable technology solutions.
- Strong understanding of security, reliability, scalability and platform management topics.
- Keep abreast of new technologies, methodologies, industry practices and standards.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentations skills.
- Pharma experience desirable.
- Product-based & Agile Delivery Experience.
- Experience in managing Veeva & Salesforce / Integration Technologies Product Line and remote team setup in a multi-region and matrixed environment.
- Ability to lead and balance multiple projects simultaneously.
- Well organized, able to adjust work schedule to fit project needs and changing priorities.
- Experience in managing Key Stakeholders and Third Party Vendors.
- Passion for new technology.
- Good understanding of Pharma, CRM & Integration domain.
- Familiar with Jira, Jira Align, Confluence and Sharepoint Tools

**WHO WE ARE**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, 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 cou