Manager, PMO Specialist

The PMO Specialist will support the Project Management Office in ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget. This role involves coordinating project activities, maintaining project documentation, and providing analytical support to project managers. The PMO Specialist will also assist in the development and implementation of project management methodologies and best practices. What will you do in this role: Project Coordination: Assist in the planning, execution, and monitoring of projects, ensuring projects completed from concept to completion under our standard work framework and alignment with organizational goals. Documentation Management: Work extensively with Project Managers to Maintain and ensure always current, project documentation, including project plans, status reports, and risk management logs. Reporting: Prepare and present regular project status reports to stakeholders, highlighting key metrics and performance indicators, ensuring the data is consistent, metrics are up to date and continuously represent single source of truth on project status. Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements within the PMO and contribute to the development of best practices. Stakeholder Communication: Ensure standard framework Facilitates regular succient communication between project teams and all stakeholders to ensure clarity and alignment on project objectives. Risk Management: Assist in identifying project risks and developing mitigation strategies. Training and Support: Provide training and support to project managers and team members on project management tools and methodologies. Digital Content: Recognition that the framework needs to deliver technologies available now and connect early with stakeholders to ensure future technologies are accounted for as company pivots towards fully digital enabled facilities. What Should you have: Education: Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Engineering, IT or a related field. Experience: 2-4 years of experience in project management or PMO roles. Certifications: PMP (Project Management Professional) or similar certification is preferred. Skills: Project Management Tools: Proficiency in project management software (e.g., Microsoft Project, Power BI). Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact seamlessly with multiple stakeholders globally Interpersonal Skills: Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and build strong relationships with stakeholders. Organizational Skills: Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

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.