Categories: Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, IT, Product Management, Animal Health

Job Description

Senior Technical Product Manager

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130-year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Join a team that is passionate about using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making and create custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's IT operating model, Tech Centres are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in the growth, success, and well-being of our people to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging, to managing critical emergencies. Together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.

Role Overview

We are looking for a product focused Senior Specialist to lead product strategy, delivery and adoption for Manufacturing, Quality and Supply Chain IT solutions that accelerate manufacturing/quality digitization maturity and operational efficiency across Animal Health’s global manufacturing organization. This role owns the product lifecycle for Quality Management System (QMS) platforms, translates business needs into prioritized roadmaps, and partners closely with lab analysts and stakeholders, IT engineering, data teams and vendors to deliver compliant, user centered solutions. 

What will you do

• Sets the product vision, roadmaps, and strategy, ensuring value and user experience are measured and achieved. 

• Owns the product vision, roadmap and backlog for QMS IT solutions, aligning priorities with Quality Assurance analysts and leadership needs, regulatory requirements and enterprise IT strategy. 

• Creates, maintains, and continuously prioritizes the product backlog to maximize value delivery and long-term sustainability 

• Engage deeply with lab analysts and stakeholders, IT and data science teams to elicit needs, define use cases and measure value realization. 

• Translate complex workflows into clear product requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria; oversee prioritization and sequencing of features. 

• Collaborate with IT engineering, architecture, QA and DevOps to deliver iterative releases using Agile practices; serve as product owner in sprint ceremonies as needed. 

• Define product metrics and KPIs (adoption, time-to-result, data quality, user satisfaction) and use them to inform roadmap decisions and demonstrate ROI. 

• Ensure product solutions meet regulatory, data governance and security standards relevant to Manufacturing and Quality (auditability, metadata capture, GMP/GxP considerations where applicable). 

• Champion data interoperability and integration strategies across systems, data lakes/warehouses and analytics platforms to enable reproducible, robust and reliable QMS performance. 

Manage release planning, deployment coordination and postimplementation support/continuous improvement activities. 

What Should you have:

•  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Life Sciences, or related field. Advanced degree preferred. 

• 6+ years of experience in product management, program management, or product owner roles within Quality IT or life sciences technology; senior specialist/architect level experience preferred. 

• Domain knowledge of Manufacturing and Quality technologies such as QMS (Reliance and/or Veeva preferred), LMS, DMS, ELN, LIMS (LabWare preferred), sample inventory, instrument integration, assay data management and laboratory automation platforms. 

• Strong understanding of electronic workflows, data lifecycle in Manufacturing and Quality, and requirements for reproducibility, metadata, and lineage. 

• Experience with Agile delivery methodologies and hands on product ownership (writing user stories, acceptance criteria, prioritizing backlogs). 

• Proven experience managing vendor relationships and implementing commercial research platforms. 

• Good knowledge of regulatory and compliance considerations relevant to Manufacturing and Quality IT (audit trails, controlled access, data retention). 

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to bridge user and technical audiences. 

• Willingness to work at Hyderabad site supporting all regions around the globe; ability to travel domestically or internationally up to ~15% (as needed). 

Preferred qualifications 

• Prior experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, animal health, or other regulated life sciences environments. 

• Experience with user research, UX design practices, and driving adoption through training and outreach. 

• Certifications in product management, Agile/Scrum, or relevant cloud technologies. 

Working conditions / other 

• Hybrid work arrangement with expected onsite presence in Hyderabad per business needs. 

• May require occasional extended hours to support global releases and cross time zone collaboration. 

• This role operates in a matrixed organization and requires effective collaboration across multiple global team.

Who we are:

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, 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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Required Skills:

Accountability, Asset Management, Benefits Management, Business Strategies, Communication, Computer Science, Create User Stories, Data Quality, Deployment Management, ICT Strategy, Laboratory Automation, Management System Development, Manufacturing Compliance, Product Governance, Product Management, Product Strategies, Program Management, Requirements Management, Software Product Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs, User Experience (UX) Research

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

02/5/2026

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