Merck Animal Health – Beef COE Lead

Merck Animal Health – Beef COE Lead

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant area of study
• 10 years experience in commercial or pharmaceutical background in beef
• Strong background in program and product management, including both software and hardware
• Prior experience in creating Product Requirements Documentation (PRD’s)
• Ability to lead a team effectively, even without formal authority
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Experience in managing end-to-end programs and product development lifecycles
• Independent, proactive, and visionary manager with the ability to make tough decisions

Responsibilities

• Product strategy aligned with the Marketing strategy
• Identify and specify market requirements, working closely with marketing, data, and commercial teams.
• Translate marketing needs into technical requirements and ensure R&D receives complete user stories.
• Plan, manage, and track all beef-related activities, ensuring holistic control and balance.
• Ensure the roadmap aligns with the business’s strategic objectives by setting proper project priorities, seeking optimization, and resolving conflicts.
• Provide ongoing guidance and mentorship to ensure the fulfillment of program objectives.
• Follow governance processes in species programs.
• Build partnerships with marketing and other relevant stakeholders to promote continuous growth while ensuring daily business operations.
• Manage the end-to-end product cycle from strategic roadmap creation, design, development, deployment, and user acceptance testing
• Communicate market needs and time requirements to design and development teams
• Define and validate product requirements with the market through customer and partner meetings
• Create detailed Product Requirements Documentation (PRDs) and Marketing Requirements (MRD) based on marketing strategy
• Manage both Feedlot COE and CowCalf COE, ensuring depth understanding of technology, compute science, and the beef market
• Lead a team directly and manage many other teams in a matrix structure
• Make rapid, independent decisions and lead with vision together with the commercial teams
• Maintain close interfaces with our biggest customers and discuss with their senior level
• Ensure support for the field and develop relevant needed features and products

Preferred Qualifications

• Benefits Management
• Financial Management
• Management System Development
• Problem Management
• Product Management
• Requirements Management
• Solution Architecture
• Stakeholder Relationship Management
• Strategic Planning
• System Designs
• Waterfall Model