Associate Director, Workforce Analytics

Job Description

New hires in office-based roles in the US & Puerto Rico will be required, subject to applicable law, to demonstrate that they have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or qualify for a medical or religious exemption to this vaccination requirement that can be accommodated without an undue burden to the operation. However, subject to applicable law, employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as employees in health services, customer facing commercial, or research based roles, will be required to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment.

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.

Associate Director, Workforce Analytics

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company – one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

As part of the Workforce Analytics consulting team in HR, you will consult with internal clients on opportunities, concerns, and potential data-driven research projects to aid decision-making. This role partners with HR Leaders and corresponding Business Leaders to influence human capital strategies using data such as talent trends, employee listening, culture measurement, and diversity. This role requires the successful individual to deeply listen and understand organizational needs, suggest research or off-the-shelf internal analytics products to inform the need, and manage a book of work that will result in meaningful change for the organization they cover. Ultimately, this work furthers mission to, “… discover, develop and provide innovative products and services that save and improve lives around the world.”

In this role the Associate Director, Workforce Analytics will manage a small team of consultants.

Position location: Hybrid (NJ) or US, Remote optional

Qualifications

Education:

• Masters degree from an accredited institution in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Statistics, Economics, Organizational Behavior, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or another related field

• PhD degree is a plus

Required:

• A minimum of 6 years of work experience in a data-driven consulting role (internal or external) with some social science dimension

• Experience working in a Human Resources function, and particularly an HR analytical

• Demonstrated ability to create recommendations based on analytical research and evidence

• Demonstrated ability to conduct independent analyses and business summaries of findings

• Successful track record in stakeholder management, linkage of business to human capital dimensions, and executive influencing through analytics

• Collaborative workstyle in a deeply team-oriented, global, asynchronous working team

• High degree of initiative and creativity

• An interest in working on projects that focus on employees and Human Resource Management

• Ability to create data-driven narratives, present findings and influence others on human capital topics (including the ability to visualize data and tell a story with it)

• Understanding of statistical techniques used in a social science setting, with an ability to produce assets when needed in R or advanced excel methods (on occasion).

Preferred:

• Domain expertise or thought leadership in talent, diversity & inclusion strategies, and analytics

• Experience with Strategic Workforce Planning, including skills taxonomies and analytical approaches to workforce planning and org design

• Understanding of HR processes, information systems, and governance

• Experience with Workday reporting, Visier, Spotfire BI, and Glint

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.

NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS

In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.

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.

For positions located in the United States and Puerto Rico – Subject to applicable law, all new hires (including internal transfers) must demonstrate that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or that they qualify for a medical or religious exemption to this vaccination requirement. New hires (including internal transfers) to a position that, as determined by the Company, requires routine collaboration with external stakeholders (such as roles in health services or customer-facing commercial or research-based roles) (“Customer-Facing Role”) who are not vaccinated must qualify for a medical or religious exemption and be in a position that the Company determines can accommodate unvaccinated employees without causing an undue burden to business operations. If, following dialog with the candidate as appropriate, it is determined that the candidate either a) does not qualify for a religious or medical exemption or, b) for candidates applying for Customer-Facing roles, it is determined that allowing the candidate to work without vaccination would cause an undue burden to the Company, the candidate will be ineligible for hire or transfer, or any offer of employment or transfer (if applicable) will be revoked. Please note that notwithstanding the approval of any reasonable accommodation, the Company reserves the right to monitor, modify, or revoke any such accommodation if it is determined, following dialog with the employee, that the accommodation is no longer effective or results in an undue burden to the Company.

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Requisition ID:R182604