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Do you want to have a direct impact on how the medicines of the future are developed?\nSenior Technical Product Manager\nIn our Animal Health division, we develop medicines and treatments of the future, and right now, we are looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to completely modernize our scientific ecosystem with us. Your mission will be to transform the way our scientists design, analyze, make, and test molecules (the DMTA process). Together, we will replace the legacy ABASE system and fragmented manual spreadsheets with a modern digital stack powered byGenedata Screener, LiveDesign, TorxMake, and DataGrok. This is no minor tweak - this transformation will save scientists more than half of their routine work, increase research productivity by a third, and kickstart a new era of predictive design through AI/ML. 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Apply now!\nKnow anybody who might be interested? Refer this job!\nRequired Skills:\nAsset Management, Business Acumen, Change Management, Executive Presence, Influencing Without Authority, Management System Development, Presentation Delivery, Presentation Preparations, Proactive Thinking, Productivity Management, Product Management, Product Marketing, Product Ownership, Project Scoping, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs, System Implementations, Value RealizationPreferred Skills:\nCurrent Employees apply HERE\nCurrent Contingent Workers apply HERE\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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