Specialist, Program/project Management

**Specialist, Program / Project Management**
- Opportunity to **be a part of a 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.

We are seeking energetic, forward-thinking professionals to join our Information Technology hub in Singapore. The Specialist Program / Project management is accountable for sound execution of portfolio programs. You will have the opportunity to work on global teams to identify and tackle the biggest opportunities and challenges at the intersection of healthcare, information and technology. We offer project-based rotations to help with your professional development, and a flat, collaborative environment.

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**

**Primary Responsibilities**
- Ensure positive business outcomes by providing leadership and coordination for project and product teams, including personal organization, communication, negotiation, risk management
- Develop working relationships across functional areas and with all levels and location of the organization across geographic regions.
- Provide leadership and engagement to the project team, key stakeholders, subcontractors and associates as required, throughout the project lifecycle
- Maintain project visibility with appropriate methodologies, processes and tools
- Maintain artefacts at project completion, Project SDLC documentation, project lessons learned and reusable collateral.

**Education Minimum Requirement**:
High School Diploma with 5 years’ experience or Bachelor’s Degree with 1 years’ experience. Preferably in IT, Engineering, Business, Computer Science, or related fields

**Required Experience and Skills**:

- Ability to drive overall project progress, avoid assumptions, track status of project tasks and schedule by frequent communication with stakeholders.
- Proficient with work experience in Microsoft Project, Excel, Confluence, Jira, and Agile and Scrum teams.
- Experience in fostering a work environment based on trust, sharing and collaboration.
- Experience in managing multiple stakeholders, with the ability to coach and counsel.
- Ability to work independently and escalate obstacles.
- Ability to engage with software vendors and third-party solution integrators.
- Ability to advise business owners on managing risks.
- Has a mindset of continuous improvement, never satisfied with the status-quo
- Manage finances spanning investment. maintenance and operations, and depreciation.
- Ability to travel 15% if needed
- Proficient in the use of project management and analytical software tools, especially JiraAlign, Jira and Confluence
- Agile certification, PMP Certification, Six Sigma
- Scrum master and Agile coach experience
- Experience and/or certification in cybersecurity, cloud, and/or networking

**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 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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**Employee Status**:
Regular

**Relocation**:
No relocation

**VISA Sponsorship**:
No

**Travel Requirements**:
10%

**Flexible Work Arrangements**:
Flex Time, Job Sharing, Work Week

**Shift**:
1st - Day

**Valid Driving License**:
No

**Hazardous Material(s)**:
**Number of Openings**:
1
**Requisition ID**:R191135