Executive Director – Center for Scientific Exchange Excellence

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🏖️ New Jersey, Pennsylvania – Remote

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

💵 $255.8k - $402.7k / year

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MSD

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1891

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🧬 Biotechnology

Healthcare • Logistics • Biotechnology

MSD is a leading biopharmaceutical company known as Merck & Co. , Inc. in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and as MSD globally. The company focuses on scientific innovation to deliver medicines and vaccines for various health challenges, including oncology, vaccines, infectious diseases, and cardio-metabolic diseases. MSD operates multiple divisions, including Human Health, Animal Health, and Research & Development. With approximately 75,000 employees worldwide and a significant investment in research and development, MSD is committed to improving global health through its scientific advancements. Additionally, the company places a strong emphasis on diversity, inclusion, and corporate responsibility. MSD’s operations extend worldwide, offering opportunities in numerous regions and promoting diversity and innovation in all aspects of its business.

📋 Description

• Set the strategic direction, priorities, operating model, and performance expectations for the CSEE organization across U.S. and global scientific exchange. • Lead execution of the scientific exchange excellence strategy across U.S. and global-regional scopes. • Oversee the CSEE team and build a high-performing, scalable organization. • Serve on the V&I GMVC Leadership Team and contribute to enterprise strategy, resource planning, prioritization, and execution. • Provide leadership, coaching, talent management, succession planning, performance management, recruitment, retention, and capability building. • Represent CSEE priorities and progress in senior leadership forums. • Define the enterprise vision and strategic roadmap for scientific exchange excellence. • Partner with medical affairs leaders to translate scientific, medical, and business priorities into scalable field medical capability solutions. • Guide regional and country leadership on planning, deployment, optimization, and evolution of field medical resources and capabilities. • Lead implementation, governance, and continuous improvement of field medical standards, processes, training curricula, guidance documents, tools, and capability programs. • Ensure globally relevant, regionally adaptable, compliant scientific exchange practices aligned with company policies and requirements. • Establish and oversee quality controls, KPIs, monitoring processes, audits, and remediation activities. • Direct field medical insights collection, evaluation, and knowledge-sharing processes. • Partner on field medical technology solutions and identify process improvement opportunities and operational risks. • Apply business and financial acumen to prioritize work, steward resources, evaluate trade-offs, and support sustainable capability delivery. • Represent the company with external organizations, industry forums, and benchmarking groups. • Develop strategic internal and external stakeholder relationships and advance global best practices.

🎯 Requirements

• PharmD, PhD, or MD plus at least 10 years of relevant experience • Extensive people leadership experience, including leading leaders, managers, directors, or multi-team organizations • Ability to lead complex, concurrent, cross-functional initiatives with U.S. and global/regional scope • Ability to set strategy, translate priorities into operational plans, and drive execution across groups, geographies, and stakeholder networks • Strong business and financial acumen, including evaluating trade-offs, managing resources, and making long-term recommendations • Familiarity with pharmaceutical industry ethical guidelines, compliance expectations, SOPs, risk assessment, and control frameworks • Executive presence and strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills • Ability to influence senior leaders internally and externally • Ability to identify process gaps, build scalable solutions, manage change, and innovate practical approaches • Ability to travel up to 50% of the time, including national and international travel • Minimum of 10 years of biopharmaceutical industry experience with demonstrated excellence in leading, coaching, or enabling field medical/scientific teams • Minimum of five years of direct management experience with scientists, clinicians, or field-based medical professionals • Deep understanding of Medical Affairs, field medical/scientific exchange, scientific training, engagement excellence, and compliant field medical operating practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus eligibility • Long-term incentive eligibility, if applicable • Medical healthcare benefits for employee and family • Dental healthcare benefits for employee and family • Vision healthcare benefits for employee and family • Other insurance benefits for employee and family • Retirement benefits, including 401(k) • Paid holidays • Vacation • Compassionate days • Sick days • Remote work arrangement