Job Description

Position Description:

The Associate Specialist \xe2\x80\x93 Site L&D supports the Site Learning & Development team by executing tactical day-to-day L&D activities including supporting continuous improvement projects, administrative duties, and planning and managing logistics of the learning activities at the site.

Responsibilities may include:

System Champion / Super User for multiple systems and centralized Global business processes

Document management within electronic systems

Supporting L&D with data entry and training process completions

Running reports from a Learning Management System

Coordinate and manage logistics for training events, including scheduling and stakeholder requests

Complete required administrative tasks associated with documentation compliance and metrics reporting

Support site L&D Administration Team, including contractors and externally managed resources

Other duties as assigned

Preferred Competencies:

Working Across Boundaries: Thinks and acts broadly, beyond one\xe2\x80\x99s department \xe2\x80\x93 bridges boundaries across teams, functions, divisions, geographies, external stakeholders and customers. Demonstrates an understanding of how one\xe2\x80\x99s job responsibilities contribute to the departments\xe2\x80\x99 goals.

Fosters Interpersonal Relationships & Collaboration: Actively listens and seeks to understand differing perspectives; work together to achieve the common goals of our Company. Demonstrated skill in applying approaches, tools, and techniques for working with individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner, including the ability to build and maintain critical networks and collaborative relationships.

Productive Communications (Oral & Written): Ability to distribute accurate information and craft messages for appropriate target audiences, with guidance if needed. Speaks and writes clearly and concisely with the ability to select the appropriate form of communication to share information.

Drives Results: Set clear performance standards; overcome obstacles; hold themselves a accountable for achieving results.

Learning System Operations: Demonstrates an understanding of the role of learning technology in employee capability development and an awareness of data standards and system maintenance structure.

Digital Acumen: Develop digital workplaces and digital workforces, deploy technology that changes how people work, relate to each other, and learn using a wide variety of tools to build a digital organization, workforce, and workplace based on awareness of emerging technologies. Collaborate with IT and the business to integrate learning into digital and automation strategies. Utilize digital solutions to sustain business metrics, KPIs and provide systematic methods to drive business decisions.

Learning Analytics: With an understanding of the talent factors that drive performance, monitor business KPIs, talent metrics, and performance metrics and tell a story with data to influence and help the business make better strategic and tactical decisions and appreciate how learning initiatives are impacting business performance. Provide employees with data to help them continue to improve.

Minimum Education Requirement:

High School Diploma

Preferred Education:

Post-secondary degree, certification, or equivalent work experience in a relevant field.

Required Experience and Skills:

MS Office (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)

Preferred Experience and Skills:

2 years relevant experience

Experience in GMP environment

NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS

In accordance with 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.

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.

Current Employees apply

Current Contingent Workers apply

US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:

Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:

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\xe2\x80\x99s thinking and approach problems collectively.

U.S. Hybrid Work Model

Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, generally Tuesday, Wednesday and either Monday or Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence. This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as \xe2\x80\x9cremote\xe2\x80\x9d.

Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Employee Status: Regular

Relocation: No relocation

VISA Sponsorship: No

Travel Requirements: No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid

Shift: 1st - Day

Valid Driving License: No

Hazardous Material(s): n/a

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