Head of Digital HR UX Enablement all genders

A career at our company is an ongoing journey of discovery: our 57000 people are shaping how the world lives works and plays through next generation advancements in healthcare life science and performance materials. For more than 350 years and across the world we have passionately pursued our curiosity to find novel and vibrant ways of enhancing the lives of others.

Your role: An exciting new opportunityhas arisen to join our company as Director Group Head of Digital HR User Experience and part of the Global People Data & Technology team you will contribute to establishingdata & technology as THE enabler for People Solutions to drivehigh business impact and bestinclass employee experience. Primary you will support the definition of People Data & Technology priorities derived from the global HR strategy lead and orchestrate data & technology innovation trend scouting across HR and participate to overall Global People Data & Technology strategic portfolio management. You act as overall HR point of contact for IT to develop and drive our companies HR digital strategy roadmap architecture and different aspects of implementation across our global People Data & Technology workstreams (eg. Core Employee Lifecycle Reporting and Analytics Cognitive Assistants). Reporting to the Global Head of People Data & Technology you will lead and develop a highly engaged team who ensures that we leverages existing People Data & Technologies to their maximum bring a focus on integration and infrastructure evolutions. You will implement impactful unified employee user experience approaches and KPIs across HR oversee people data and technology launches in collaboration with many areas in our company such as the Data & Technology workstream owners HR experts IT and Business Service areas. You will play a key role in ensuring that digital platform knowledge and enablement are fit for purpose create a strategic overview of all people data and technology related third party vendors and functionalities used acts as overall HR point of contact for vendor escalations and strategic negotiations in close collaboration with HR/IT/procurement experts and inline with our IT procurement vendor strategy. The position can be based in EMEA region.

Who you are:

• Mastersdegree / PhD holderideally in either Digital HR IT or Business Administration
• Minimum 5years of working experience related to building and implementing Digital HR strategies and transformations at regional or global levels in matrix organizations
• 35 years of global leadership experience in international teams demonstrating success positions with Senior Leadership exposure and highly crossfunctional collaboration environments
• Demonstrated success in implementing highbusiness impact digital solutions bestinclass employee user experience with a strong innovation and enduser mindset
• Strong knowledge related to data and technologies architecture infrastructures (middleware and frontend)technology implementation such as for example SAP SuccessFactors Tableau SNOW Visier other cognitive assistant platforms
• Ability to develop practices collaboratively with Business Stakeholders and key functions such as IT Data GovernanceData Privacy Offices Works Councils Business Services
• Ability to bridge strategic views governance innovation and efficiency topics to accelerate our Digital HR transformation at Merck
• Customeroriented datadriven pragmatic problemsolving and techsavvy mindset with a strong outcome focus and an attention to detail
• Fluent in English mandatory German ideal

What we offer: With us there are always opportunities to break new ground. We empower you to fulfil your ambitions and our diverse businesses offer various career moves to seek new horizons. We trust you with responsibility early on and support you to draw your own career map that is responsive to your aspirations and priorities in life. Join us and bring your curiosity to life!

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