Job Description

Our Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) team is passionate about bringing our medicines and vaccines to our customers around the world, while maintaining worker health and safety as our number one priority.

Position Description:

This position will be a part of the EHS Systems team and be the EHS technical support for all EHS data analytic tools and new enterprise digital solutions. This position will work with the EHS colleagues and business leaders to identify, develop, and implement EHS digital needs. They will work with other digital and data teams to simplify and optimize how the EHS organization develops and publishes new data analytics. They will partner with the EHS Data Literacy Lead to improve the EHS data literacy culture, so EHS data is used to support EHS improvements and monitor EHS compliance.

Specific objectives will include:

• Act as the EHS liaison between business and digital teams for the company’s EHS enterprise Business Intelligence (Qlik Sense) system.

• Develop and implement a strategic vision to manage the Qlik Sense and to optimize the tool for business.

• Lead the EHS Qlik Sense Community of Practice (CoP)

• Manage and communicate the Company EHS Scorecard and company EHS metrics.

• Manage company OSHA logs.

• Partner with the business to identify and deliver digital solutions to increase EHS data capabilities.

• Participate in the execution of EHS Priorities, including the GSE Digital Strategy and Data Literacy & Governance projects.

• Assess business needs for new digital EHS solutions, to replace legacy systems with cloud and mobility services.

• Partner with business and digital teams to identify new digital solutions.

• Lead the implementation of digital tools by developing and executing site communication, training, and site adoption project plans.

• Build and deliver new innovative digital solutions to assist driving EHS compliance at global sites.

• Collaborate with vendors and other company business partners to provide EHS subject matter expertise and systems support.

• Develop and manage assigned budgets.

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental, safety, or related technical discipline

Required Experience and Skills

• 5+ years of progressive EHS experience.

• Team player capable of working collaboratively within a global, multi-functional team environment within and outside of the EHS organization.

• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability.

• Experience working with and implementing EHS system solutions.

• Direct experience implementing and sustaining EHS programs and strong project management skills.

• Ability to influence both horizontally and vertically in an organization and influence without authority.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (SharePoint, PowerApps, Power Automate, Power BI, Teams).

• Detailed working knowledge of business data analysis and visualization tools.

• Demonstration of strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to prioritize based on customer needs and business goals,

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Direct experience managing a site or corporate level EHS program.

• Direct experience building and/or maintaining a digital solution.

• Experience with Enablon and Qlik Sense.

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., Rahway, 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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Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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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:R228616