Associate Director, Business Integrator

MSD

Associate Director managing business integration between engineering and manufacturing for Merck. Leading project developments and aligning stakeholders for successful execution and strategic value.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeNew Jersey, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $142,400 - $224,100 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Interact and partner with employees in stakeholder areas such as Commercialization, Technical Operations, Supply Chain, Operations, External Manufacturing, Business Affairs, Product Franchises, Procurement, Safety, Digital Manufacturing Division, and other groups within our company.
Interact with clients to define business opportunities and needs, translate them into requirements and boundary condition options with other stakeholders, evaluate risk, priorities, and tradeoffs, and propose fit-for-purpose business options with proper justification that maximize return on assets and create the highest value.
Work cooperatively with the Technology Center Lead and Regional Delivery Leads to guide activities prior to business case review, fully exploring site selection options, engineering technical options, our company's manufacturing process opportunities, and capital phasing options.
Be accountable for projects through business case review stage gate with fit-for-purpose business solutions via the Capital Management Process.
Organize and lead the cross-functional project team including internal and external resources during the FEL-0 and FEL-1 phase.
Post-business case review stage gate, ensure project boundaries are clearly established and communicated to the project team via a project kickoff.
Build trusting relationships with key business stakeholders, and be responsible for helping business areas build business cases and develop projects with the goal of gaining alignment and approval through the capital management process.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Engineering or Applicable Science; preferably in chemical or Bioengineering, with a minimum of seven (7) years of the required experience.
OR MS with five (5) years, OR PhD with two (2) years.
Experience with capital projects required: engineering design or capital project execution for manufacturing processes.
Demonstrated leadership skills that are necessary to build and maintain high-performing teams.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and analytical and problem-solving skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

engineering designcapital project executionmanufacturing processes

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationinterpersonal skillsanalytical skillsproblem-solving

Certifications

Bachelor of Science (BS) in EngineeringMaster of Science (MS)PhD