Merck Animal Health - Beef COE Lead

Job Description

As the Beef COE Lead, you will be responsible for the planning and delivery of the technology roadmap for our beef business. This includes working with marketing and data teams during the ideation phase, managing requirements, overseeing development deliverables with core technology groups, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. You will also manage interfaces with commercial and services teams and provide strategic technical direction for the product roadmap.

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

Education

• Bachelor's degree in relevant area of study

Qualifications:

• 10 years experience in commercial or pharmaceutical background in beef
• Strong background in program and product management, including both software and hardware.
• 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

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