Associate Director, Project Management – Value & Implementation

MSD

Associate Director leading project management within the Research and Development sector. Focusing on drug and vaccine Value & Implementation with cross-functional teams and complex project strategies.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeRahway • New Jersey, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $142,400 - $224,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PMP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Managing the Value and Implementation process, including projects of significant complexity; driving cross-functional teams and leading by influence to develop comprehensive strategies and ensure successful execution.
Act as enterprise leaders by guiding teams through the creation, approval, and execution of integrated project plans appropriate to the project's phase of development and complexity.
Building and maintaining project plans and critical project information in enterprise project management systems and databases.
Using these tools to integrate activities across key team members, proactively identify risks, and ensure clear and effective communication with key team, management, and cross-departmental stakeholders.
Leveraging relationships and networks to improve and enhance team dynamics; proactively identifying and removing obstacles to drive business results.
Navigating our Company process and organizational norms to enable teams to understand corporate business requirements, thereby enabling decision-making.
Leading key team meetings including creating thoughtful agendas, ensuring appropriate participation, contributing project management insights, and following up to ensure the team continues to make progress while holding others accountable.
Participating in GPAM departmental initiatives and workstreams aimed at improving the way that we work and the way that we interact with one another as well as other departments.
Improving business processes to find new efficiencies and connect people to the information that they need.
Providing mentoring, coaching, and oversight to Specialist and Senior Specialist project managers working on common projects.
Sharing lessons learned and best practices to impact the GPAM community positively.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree required; concentration in a scientific or applied discipline preferred
Minimum of five (5) years of experience in project management or a related role required; in a pharmaceutical/biotech industry preferred
Advanced degree (e.g., MPH, MS, MBA, Ph.D., PharmD) preferred
Experience and knowledge of different components of value and implementation strongly preferred; including how the various functional areas contribute to a comprehensive strategy
Project management certification (PMP) and/or formal coursework/training in project management strongly preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
Retirement benefits, including 401(k)
Paid holidays
Vacation
Compassionate and sick days

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementvalue and implementationrisk identificationbusiness process improvementstrategic planningcross-functional team leadershipproject planningmentoringcoaching

Soft Skills

communicationinfluencerelationship buildingproblem solvingaccountabilityteam dynamicscollaborationorganizational navigationstakeholder engagement

Certifications

PMP