Associate Director, Strategy & Operations, Content Accelerator

Content Accelerator Leadership Role

This role represents a unique opportunity for professional growth and strategic impact. As a key leadership position, this role will ensure the Content Accelerator team operates effectively and efficiently, driving alignment, orchestration, and execution across a complex global stakeholder ecosystem. The role is responsible for streamlining communication, managing executive-level agendas, and ensuring the VP is fully equipped for high-stakes engagements and strategic decision-making forums. Working closely with peer Strategy & Operations leaders across GHQ, US, DHH and critical HHI markets, this role will coordinate on strategic planning cycles, align on shared priorities, and ensure consistent communication of strategic imperatives to the VP. Acting as the connective tissue between strategy and execution, this role enables the VP to anticipate shifts, identify risks and opportunities early, and co-shape strategic course corrections when necessary. The primary objective is to deliver outcomes that advance the Content Accelerator's goals while ensuring strategic coherence across GHQ, markets and other functions priorities. This role also leads the ongoing tactical operations of the Content Accelerator team, including the organization and facilitation of key meetings, oversight and strategic pull-through of major projects, programs, and communications.

Responsibilities :

• Ensure the VP is adequately prepared for all engagements by coordinating with relevant subject matter experts within the organization and prepare appropriate, supportive documents that highlight critical strategic context.
• Identify emerging trends, tensions, or misalignments and partner with the VP to shape strategic pivots or adjustments as needed.
• Represent Content Accelerator goals and support the process to incorporate them into priorities. Facilitate integrated objective setting and quarterly business reviews in partnership with the Content Accelerator workstream leads and HHOC PMO & Change Management team.
• Provide operational insights and support to the executive team, assisting in implementing critical decisions that drive desired outcomes and positively impact the organization.
• Support in managing the Content Accelerator's operating budget, ensuring alignment of financial planning and resource allocation with strategic priorities.
• Manage team priorities by ensuring realization of defined goals, cross-hub integration, and on-going tactical operations with critical stakeholders from DHH, Global Franchises, HR, Finance, HHI, and HH US.
• Oversee large and often cross-functional organization wide projects or initiatives in support of strategic priorities.
• Manage a high level of confidential and sensitive information and data, ensuring discretion and appropriate handling of all materials in the fulfillment of duties.
• Develop appropriate content for meetings e.g. Content Accelerator Get Togethers, Engagements with Global Franchises, HHI and markets and other activities of similar scope.
• Assist in the implementation of initiatives and strategies that incrementally build and strengthen the culture within Content Accelerator team, including initiatives targeting leadership and the broader organization (e.g., team-building activities, Volunteer Days, etc.)
• Collaborate with change and communications teams to ensure that messages reflect the current thinking of the Content Accelerator organization and are tailored for the intended audience.

Qualifications & Skills :

Required :

Preferred :

Required Skills : Adaptability, Agile Project Management, Business Administration, Business Decisions, Business Management, Business Reviews, Business Strategies, Communication, Data-Driven Decision Making, Developing Proposals, Digital Analytics, Emerging Trends, Employee Performance Evaluations, Environmental Scanning, Executive Communications, Feasibility Studies, Financial Management, Leadership, Market Research, Operations Management, Oral Communications, Organizational Alignment, Pharmaceutical Market, Portfolio Management

Preferred Skills : Current Employees apply HERE

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As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

The salary range for this role is $139,600.00 - $219,700.00. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https : / / jobs.merck.com / us / en / compensation-and-benefits.

You can apply for this role through https : / / jobs.merck.com / us / en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

San Francisco Residents Only : We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Los Angeles Residents Only : We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

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Employee Status : Regular

Relocation : No

VISA Sponsorship : No

Travel Requirements : 10%

Flexible Work Arrangements : Hybrid

Shift : 1st - Day

Valid Driving License : No

Hazardous Material(s) : none

Job Posting End Date : 11 / 18 / 2025