Product Manager, Reusable Data Services
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 15, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 15, 2026. Merck & Co. scores A on the Alion truth index.
Job Description
Our Product team partners with the business to build innovative solutions that help redefine Clinical Trial Data Transformation and Submissions. Our research labs' IT team is seeking a Product Manager for Reusable Data Services, reporting to the Lead Product Manager.
The ideal candidate encapsulates technology, strategy, user experience, and agile delivery skills with an huge appetite and curiosity to solve hard problems. Your goal is to deliver measurable value to clinical data stakeholders.
What you will do
- Orchestrate the product across its lifecycle. Be the chief orchestrator of the product helping champion its vision, strategy and mission with a clear focus on business outcomes and user experience
- Drive continuous product discovery. User journey mapping and design thinking to surface unmet and unarticulated needs, then turn them into a prioritised backlog
- Set the roadmap. Make high-integrity roadmap commitments that you've assessed with the squad for value, feasibility, usability and viability.
- Align stakeholders. Partner with clinical data management, biostatistics, standards and downstream systems such as the SDTM Engine to align priorities and dependencies
- Lead delivery. Help the squad ship iteratively, and manage scope, schedule, risks and cross-squad dependencies
- Champion AI-enabled ways of working. Find opportunities for automation and AI to boost throughput and reduce cycle time
- Contribute to product line strategy. Work with the Lead Product Manager and Architect on cross-squad prioritisation, defining product metrics, OKRs and KPIs to steer decisions and show delivered value
What you bring
Required
- 5+ years in product management, technical product management or a closely related role delivering data or platform products
- A proven record of owning a roadmap and delivering outcomes in an agile or product operating model
- Skill at turning complex technical concepts into business value for senior stakeholders
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority
- Empathy and great taste for UX and Design
- Fluent English
Preferred
- Experience in pharma, life sciences or clinical research data, such as CDISC, SDTM, EDC or clinical data management
- Familiarity with data privacy and de-identification (masking), medical coding or data governance
- Experience applying AI and automation to improve team productivity
- Product management certification (e.g., SAFe POPM, CSPO, Pragmatic)
Our Offer
- Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment
- Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
- Pension and health (Canadian Medical) contributions
- Internal reward system plus referral program
- 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution
- Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport card, Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora discount programs
- Up-to-date laptop and iPhone, parking in the garage, showers, refreshments
- Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more
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Communication, Data Management, Product Management, Stakeholder Management, User Experience (UX)Preferred Skills:
Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standards, Clinical Data Management, Clinical Research, Data Governance, Data Privacy, Electronic Data Capture (EDC), Intelligent Automation (IA), Life Science, Medical Coding, Pharmaceutical Industry, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM)Current Employees apply HERE
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