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This individual will play a critical role in a multi-year, complex global transformation program, serving as the primary business-facing product lead across internal stakeholders, the selected systems implementation partner, and the software provider.\nThe successful candidate will be responsible for defining the product line’s priorities and vision, translating business needs across 10+ functional areas and 40+ markets into actionable requirements, and driving successful delivery of CLM capabilities across the organization. In parallel, this role will oversee business-as-usual support for the CLM program, help establish enterprise governance, and identify opportunities to enhance contract processes, user experience, reporting, and automation over time.\nThis role requires a strong blend of product ownership, enterprise systems implementation, executive-level stakeholder engagement, and operational leadership, ideally within a global and highly regulated environment\nResponsibilities:\nVision & Strategy\nCreate and communicate a robust a vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap to evolve the CLM product line that is alignedto business priorities and enterprise technology standards.\n\nProvide leadership across 3+ products in the CLM product line across its full lifecycle, planning through delivery, adoption, optimization, and continuous improvement.\n\nCollaborate with stakeholders across GSF and IT delivery teams to contribute to overall company priorities.\n\nEstablish and track product KPIs and success 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using strong PMO, and delivery, and risk management practices\n\nEnsure delivery governance, documentation, and adherence to enterprise SDLC, security, and compliance standards.\n\nCoordinate change management and stakeholder communications to support successful deployments and adoption.\n\nTechnical & Solution Leadership\nAct as a subject-matter expert in contract lifecycle and related business processes, deeply understanding stakeholder needs, pain points, and value drivers.\n\nProvide hands-on product leadership and team building for CLM Product Team supporting configuration, workflows, templates, clauses, metadata, and integrations.\n\nPartner with architecture, integration, security, and data teams to ensure scalable and compliant solutions.\n\nEnsure technical decisions support long-term platform sustainability, performance, and extensibility.\n\nEducation Minimum Requirement\nBachelor’s degree\n Required Experience and Skills\n10+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, or solution leadership roles, preferably in enterprise SaaS platforms.\nEnterprise leadership skills, including business savviness, strategic planning, execution excellence, change catalyst, Emotional Intelligence, networking and partnerships.\nTrusted advisor to business leaders with a track record focusing on data-driven, user-focused outcomes.\nStrong PMO and delivery leadership skills, including managing complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives.\nDemonstrated experience owning and delivering enterprise-scale solutions (CLM solutions strongly preferred).\nProven ability to set product vision, define roadmaps, and deliver measurable business value.\nExperience leading and mentoring technical analysts or delivery teams.\nExcellent stakeholder management, communication, and executive presence to support delivery excellence to business partners.\nExperience partnering with Legal, Procurement, Compliance, or similar organizations.\nBuild, grow, and support a team of Product Managers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and providing feedback\nExperience in organizational change management (transformation) and continuous improvement.\nWillingness to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes.\nPreferred Experience and Skills\nMaster’s degree in science or technology discipline\n15+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, or solution leadership roles, preferably in enterprise SaaS platforms.\nProven ability scale solutions beyond initial implementations to enterprise adoption.\nProduct management certifications or Agile/Scrum credentials.\nDeep understanding of CLM platforms, including configuration, workflows, clause libraries, approvals, reporting, and integrations.\nOne or more of the following certifications:\nDocuSign CLM Administrator\nDocuSign CLM Workflow Developer\nDocuSign CLM Implementation Consultant\nDocuSign CLM Technical Consultant\nRequired Skills:\nAsset Management, Benefits Management, Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), Contract Management, Documentations, Enterprise System Implementations, Enterprise Systems, Management System Development, Organizational Change Management, Product Management, Product Management Leadership, Requirements Management, Risk Management, Roadmapping, Stakeholder Communications, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs, User Experience (UX)Preferred Skills:\nCurrent Employees apply HERE\nCurrent Contingent Workers apply HERE\nUS and Puerto Rico Residents Only:\nOur company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.\nAs 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. Asa federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:\nEEOC Know Your Rights\nEEOC GINA Supplement\nWe are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.\nLearn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts\nThe primary location for this posting is:\nUSA - Pennsylvania - West PointWhere required by law, the compensation range for this role is provided below.\nThe salary range for the primary location of this role is:\n$173,200.00 - $272,600.00This range reflects the Company's reasonable expectation of the base salary applicable to this role at the time of 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.\nWe 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.\nAdditional location(s): Please note the salary range above applies to the Primary Location of the position. Where a role has other listed locations, different compensation guidelines may apply. You may find the salary ranges for additional locations below. If the salary range is not listed for the location you are applying to, our Talent Acquisition team will provide further information to you relevant to your location.\nAdditional location(s) Compensation Information:\nSan Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance\nLos 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\nSearch Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully\nMerck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. 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