Junior Product Owner

**Our Company**

For more than a century, our Company has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, it 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.

**Our Singapore IT Hub**

Established in 2015, our Singapore IT Hub aims to harness digital solutions for better business outcomes. One of its key focuses is in using analytics and data science to guide better decision-making.

Home to more than 300 employees with over 20 nationalities, the Singapore IT Hub is part of a global network, with sister hubs located in the United States and Czech Republic. In Singapore, the hub houses a wide span of IT capabilities teams ranging from Data Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity & Risk Management to Enterprise Platforms and many more. Across Japan, China and the Asia Pacific region, the hub works closely with colleagues from all divisions of the company to drive our core business.

This position is part of the **Company Led Training (CLT) programme** which is a structured development programme jointly developed by the our Singapore IT Hub and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) that aims to enable fresh and mid-level professionals to acquire specialist expertise for jobs in demand by the industry, especially those that support Smart Nation projects. More details here.

**Tasks**:

- Participate in stakeholder meetings to understand business needs and wants, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that create business value, and improve stakeholder experience
- Bring new in-house AI products to market by analysing proposed product requirements and product development
- Shape overall product vision and roadmap and create buy-in for the vision both within the team and with key stakeholders
- Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
- Manage agile product development process from product management point of view
- Assist in technical training to upskill colleagues to raise the data science competency levels within the company

**Education**:
**Skills / Knowledge**
- One to two years of experience in Agile Software Development as a Product Owner, Business Analyst or Quality Assurance Analyst
- Product mindset with heart at delivering the best for our customers
- Ability to understand the big picture and break it down into sizeable chunks for development
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills

**Who we are**

Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA is known as “Merck” in the United States, Canada & Puerto Rico. We are known as “MSD” in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America & Asia Pacific. We are a global biopharmaceutical leader with a diverse portfolio of prescription medicines, oncology, vaccines and animal health products.

We are driven by our purpose to develop and deliver innovative products that save and improve lives. With 69,000 employees operating in more than 140 countries, we offer state of the art laboratories, plants and offices that are designed to Inspire our employees as we learn, develop and grow in our careers. We are proud of our 125 years of service to humanity and continue to be one of the world’s biggest investors in Research & Development.

**What we look for**

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.

**INVENTING FOR LIFE**

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively for the common good. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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**Education**:
**Skills / Knowledge**
- One to two years of experience in Agile Software Development as a Product Owner, Business Analyst or Quality Assurance Analyst
- Product mindset with heart at delivering the best for our customers
- Ability to understand the big picture and break it down into sizeable chunks for development
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills

All experience levels will be considered and offers will be made at a level commensurate to the individual.

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