**Job Description** Our Company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where Our Company has codified its 125-year legacy. Our Company's success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare. Our company’s Global Clinical Trial Operations (GCTO) organization is primarily responsible for executing late-stage clinical trials across therapeutic areas around the globe. The Associate Director, Advanced Analytics will work with our partners across GCTO to help address critical business questions beyond simple descriptive or diagnostics dashboards and/or reports. This individual will work independently and/or with a cross-functional team, consisting of subject-matter and technical experts, to define and execute data modelling processes to create algorithms, predictive models, and analysis related to clinical trial operations.​ **Primary responsibilities include:** + Collaborate with Subject-Matter Experts (SMEs) and other business stakeholders to solve complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify & deliver innovative solutions. + Develop & execute advanced analytics that includes predictive, prescriptive, & machine learning/AI capabilities. + Build prototypes for early user validation. + Identifying and acquiring data based on business needs to enhance or complement current solutions/data sets. + Exploring novel methods of retrieving, blending, and organizing data to develop innovative solutions. + Ensure data science investments are maximized by data-driven initiatives, data quality and governance, data access, and tools + Interprets internal/ external business challenges and best practices to recommend improvements to products, processes, or services + Maintain knowledge of the competitive landscape and identifies areas of competitive differentiation + Maintain knowledge of state-of-the-art innovations in data science from both academic and industry sources + Communicate applicable results and analysis to a diverse group of stakeholders + Leadership: + Leading analytics teams or projects; motivates junior team members; promotes the value of working together as a team and relationship building + Manages projects with moderate resource requirements, risk and/or complexity The role must demonstrate appropriate our company Leadership Standards. Experienced with "getting things done" in a complex work environment is required. **Education Minimum Requirement:** + Degree in computer science, physics, mathematics, actuarial science, or relevant field, with: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 10 years of professional experience with at least 8 years in data wrangling, exploration/mining, statistical modelling and machine learning, at least one programming language – R/ Python, BI tools (i.e. Qlik, Microsoft Power BI, Spotfire), Software development lifecycle (SDLC) + Master’s degree with 7 years of professional experience with at least 5 in data wrangling, exploration/mining, statistical modelling and machine learning, at least one programming language – R/ Python, BI tools ( i.e. Qlik, Microsoft Power BI, Spotfire), Software development lifecycle (SDLC) + PhD with 3 years of professional experience with at least 1 in data wrangling, exploration/mining, statistical modelling and machine learning, at least one programming language – R/ Python, BI tools ( i.e. Qlik, Microsoft Power BI, Spotfire), Software development lifecycle (SDLC) **Preferred Experience and Skills:** + Experience in clinical development, clinical operations, or pharmaceuticals **Required Experience and Skills:** Advanced technical skills (8 yrs.) including: + Data wrangling, exploration/mining + Statistical modelling and machine learning + At least one programming language – R/ Python + BI tools ( i.e. Qlik, Microsoft Power BI, Spotfire) + Software development lifecycle (SDLC) Advanced business/communication skills: + Use case development + Excellent presentation skills including storytelling + Familiarity with applicable data privacy practices and laws + Proven abilities to take initiative and be innovative; high “figure-it-out” quotient + Project management and agile/scrum methodologies + Communication skills including the ability to explain difficult concepts and influence others to adopt a different point of view, when appropriate Current Employees apply HERE (https://wd5.myworkday.com/msd/d/task/1422$6687.htmld) Current Contingent Workers apply HERE (https://wd5.myworkday.com/msd/d/task/1422$4020.htmld) **US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:** Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here (https://survey.sogosurvey.com/r/aCdfqL) if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process. As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit: EEOC Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) EEOC GINA Supplement​ We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts (https://www.msdprivacy.com/us/en/CCPA-notice/) **U.S. Hybrid Work Model** Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”. The salary range for this role is $153,800.00 - $242,200.00 This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits . You can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting. **San Francisco Residents Only:** We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance **Los Angeles Residents Only:** We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance **Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully** Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. **Employee Status:** Regular **Relocation:** No relocation **VISA Sponsorship:** No **Travel Requirements:** No Travel Required **Flexible Work Arrangements:** Hybrid **Shift:** 1st - Day **Valid Driving License:** No **Hazardous Material(s):** No **Required Skills:** Actuarial Science, Animal Vaccination, Business, Business Intelligence (BI), C++ Programming Language, Clinical Development, Clinical Medicine, Clinical Physiology, Clinical Testing, Computer Science, Data Analysis, Database Design, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Data Science, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Product Recommendations, Programming Languages, Python (Programming Language), Software Development, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Teamwork, Veterinary Medicine, Waterfall Model **Preferred Skills:** **Job Posting End Date:** 08/29/2025 ***A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day** **BEFORE** **the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day** **BEFORE** **the job posting end date.** **Requisition ID:** R361351