MEMerck Sharp Dohme Msd
Director Technical Product Management
Pune ₹4-18 LPA Posted 26 Jun 2025
FULL TIME
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Job Description
- Primary Responsibilities
- Talent Lead a global Team of SCADA, Equipment Automation, Controls, & Building Automation professionals.
- Manage professionals, across several geographies, promoting career development and continuous upskilling of talent to build diverse teams and the ecosystem to empower them
- Activity engage with partners is holistically managing talent within across Manufacturing Value Team, Digital Manufacturing Operations, and supporting services.
- Develop a visible and authentic external presence, and strong internal networks, to recruit highly skilled and diverse talent, stay current with industry trends, and establish effective vendor partnerships.
- Maintain development plans and regularly update skillsets through a commitment to life-long learning
- Operations Strong and frequent engagement with Digital Manufacturing Operations Site IT & Automation Leadership aligning on Product direction including backlog, prioritization, incident management, and performance.
- Institutionalize and have accountability of Tier 2/3 application support including managing AMS vendors.
- Collaborate with Foundational Services organization on operations management and performance of underlying IT technology, architecture, and cyber resilience.
- Perform Product lifecycle management planning consisting of product roadmap and consolidated view of site roadmaps. Provide total cost management of lifecycle activities including multi-year forecast. Own or oversee global administration SOP s
- Partner with strategic equipment vendors ensuring operational aspects of automation technology meets our business requirements.
- Oversee all lifecycle management activities including upgrades and patching.
- Ensure architecture and supporting services align to agreed resilience model.
- Delivery Lead a delivery squad that partners with capital Delivery team.
- Engage equipment vendors to ensure standardized robust solutions.
- Oversee delivery, ensuring time and budget commitments are met. Plan projects and resource accordingly with internal and external resources.
- Owns the Delivery Roadmap and all technical implementation standards for Building Automation, SCADA, and Level 1 Controls.
- Institutionalize and own delivery best practices including documentation and testing methodologies.
- Partner closely with operations teams to ensure seamless transition from project phases to sustaining operations while ensuring retention of critical knowledge within the organization.
- Platform Product financial and budgeting accountability and stewardship including MS&O and annual portfolio budgets. Incorporate into overall portfolio management process.
- Develop strategic roadmaps across all key technologies in the Product.
- Develop strong relationship with key equipment vendors for alignment in technology, architecture, and LCM.
- Maintain and enforce global application standards including configuration, SDLC documentation, architecture.
- Design a robust solution architecture that meeting operational requirements and integrates with other shopfloor applications as required to meet business and compliance drivers.
- High collaboration with suppliers, to ensure a cohesive technology roadmap is in place, maintain overall master agreements, and lead day to day engagement.
- Ensure cyber security controls are implemented and maintained.
- Develop and own platform standards, architectures, and global business processes.
- Leadership Maintain a strong leadership presence, demonstrating thought leadership and educating/coaching leaders on areas of opportunity.
- Maintain industry engagement in each of the key technology areas.
- Ensures accountability - Takes ownership of all aspects of the product management.
- Drive results with clear actions and accountability. Escalates issues timely as required.
- Qualifications10+ years of work experience in a GxP manufacturing environment
- Bachelor s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related fields.
- 18+ year experience with shop floor automation technologies with strong experience with Rockwell, Siemens platforms including PLC s, Industry leading SCADA platforms including Ignition and Wonderware, level 1 controls including control bus technology such as Profibus and Ethernet I/P. Familiarity with Siemens BAS platforms.
- Understanding of control panel design best practices.
- Strong understanding of operational technologies in life science manufacturing specifically the business use cases and value drivers of these solutions.
- Demonstrated superior management skills as well as communication skills that emphasize collaboration in a matrixed organization and ability to align the organization on complex decisions .
- Strong quantitative skills and the ability to use data and metrics to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement, using lean manufacturing principles
- Self-motivated, value-oriented with a mindset of continuous learning.
- Experience managing and motivating a dispersed international team across multiple time zones
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for a wide range of audiences; from entry level associates to site-level leaders.
- Communicates candidly and fluently in English
- Travel Requirements: 25% Travel is expected to USA, Ireland, Europe and Singapore sites to plan, coordinate and connect with the site stakeholders
- Ready to work flexible working hours to cover the overlap needed for NA and Europe sites.