Director, Health Equity Team - Social Business Innovation

Job Description

In April 2020, our Company announced plans to consolidate our New Jersey campuses into a single New Jersey headquarters location in Rahway, NJ by 2023. Therefore, this role will be temporarily based in a and exact timing of the departmental move to Rahway, NJ will be communicated at a future date.

Promoting health equity is one of our Company’s core priorities. The Health Equity Team is leading efforts to ensure as a Company we realize this priority and goal for the foreseeable future and to also ensure we improve the wellbeing and health of our patients.

The Health Equity team is seeking a full time Director to lead and spearhead how health equity is embedded across the Company’s core business functions, inclusive of our Research Labs, our Manufacturing Division and Human Health. This individual will focus on prioritized markets and therapeutic areas to ensure health equity is a core competency that is integrated into commercialization plans related to marketing, market research, market access, communications, and policy. Specific responsibilities will include:

• Interface with global, regional, and market stakeholders to support integration of health equity into strategic planning, priorities, and profit planning.

• Serve as consultant and subject matter expert to global, regional, and market stakeholders to help them identify health equity related opportunities and ultimately guide execution of their health equity strategy and programs/partnerships.

• Collaborate with business units to ensure appropriate capabilities (i.e., SDoH data and analytics, multi-cultural marketing, health literacy, etc.) to support the execution of their health equity strategy are developed and operationalized.

• Build and execute on an accountability plan by establishing and implementing key performance metrics that teams report against to enable greater awareness and understanding of how the Company is progressing in accomplishing the Global Health Equity Framework/Strategy.

• Lead development, dissemination, implementation of an enterprise health equity report card to assess the social and business impact of our health equity strategic interventions/programs.

• Lead inaugural Health Equity Catalyst Fund program.

• For 2022, lead the Anti-microbial Stewardship Grants and learning collaborative.

Reporting to: Executive Director, Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health

Supervisory Responsibilities: No

Effort: Full-time

Required:

• 10 years experience in the pharmaceutical / healthcare industry/public health. Strong project management and strategy background.

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.

Preferred:

• Advanced certification or degree in a relevant field (business, public health, health policy, public policy, marketing, allied health etc)

• Advanced certification or degree in a relevant field (e.g., Six Sigma, MBA, HCD).

• Experience will both domestic (U.S.) and international programs and partnerships.

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, 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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If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

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We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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Requisition ID:R185530