Associate Director, Detailed Scheduling

Job Description

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centres are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Centre helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.

Role Overview

The Associate Director, Supply Chain Management – Technical Lead for production and scheduling solutions will lead the global design, development, and rollout of advanced production planning and detailed scheduling capabilities. The role partners with the Product Owner, architects, and site leads to drive solution design, ensure successful deployment and adoption across sites.
This position requires deep site planning and scheduling expertise, strong hands-on experience with tools such as Kinaxis Maestro, SAP PP/DS, OMP, or similar ERP/APS systems, and a proven track record leading complex multi-site implementations. The Associate Director will set technical standards, solve complex problems, and ensure solutions are scalable, robust, and aligned with broader supply chain and digital strategies.

What will you do in this role:

• Lead the end-to-end technical design of production planning and detailed scheduling solutions in partnership with the Product Owner, architects, and site leads.
• Translate business strategy, supply chain objectives, and site planning needs into a coherent technical roadmap and solution architecture for scheduling.
• Define and enforce design standards, integration patterns, and data models to ensure scalability, performance, and maintainability across global deployments.
• Lead configuration, customization, and technical development of scheduling and site planning applications (e.g., SAP, Kinaxis Maestro), including interfaces, data orchestration, and integrations with ERP, MES, and analytics platforms.
• Own the technical implementation and rollout of scheduling solutions across global sites, including deployment planning, readiness, cutover, and testing. Serve as primary technical counterpart to the Product Owner, co-owning backlog, prioritization, and releases, while aligning with enterprise, solution, and data architects.
• Partner with site and supply chain stakeholders to understand requirements, ensure business value, and clearly communicate complex technical topics to all audiences.
• Lead data driven, cross functional problem solving for complex planning and scheduling issues, analyzing performance to identify systemic constraints and optimization opportunities.
• Continuously enhance algorithms, configurations, and processes, promoting best practices and reusable components across sites to improve service levels, efficiency, and solution quality.
• This role need some one to be flexible with teams Global timelines.

What should you have:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Management, or a related field.
• 10+ years of technical solution experience in supply chain, production planning, and site planning, applying MRP, capacity planning, production scheduling, and constraint management concepts.
• Extensive hands-on experience with advanced planning and scheduling tools (e.g., Kinaxis Maestro, SAP PP/DS, OMP, or similar ERP/APS solutions) and integrations across ERP, APS, MES, and analytics platforms.
• AI/Agent-based solutions for Supply Chain Planning business needs, including design and automation experience.
• Experience designing and implementing reports and analytics using Power BI, SQL, and data lake or cloud data platforms (e.g., AWS S3 and related services).
• Desired: Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript for data integration, orchestration, and automation of planning workflows and data processing.
• Strong experience working within Agile / product-based delivery models, including backlog management, iterative delivery, and release management.
• A strong leader who works well with different teams, solves tough problems in a clear, logical way, and communicates effectively with senior people to help everyone move in the same direction.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

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 lives, 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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Required Skills:

Benefits Management, Kinaxis, Kinaxis Demand Planning, Kinaxis Integration, Kinaxis Supply Planning, Management System Development, Product Management, Requirements Management, SAP Planning, SAP PP (Production Planning), SAP Production, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, Supply Chain Leadership

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Job Posting End Date:

02/27/2026

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