
Associate Director, Patient Adherence Solutions (CRM+)
Merck
Summary
Owns day-to-day adherence operations for assigned brands or therapeutic areas, primarily focused on CRM configuration, companion app management, refill reminders and coordination oversight. Serves as the primary adherence operations contact for assigned brand teams to ensure patients on those brands have a consistent, coordinated adherence experience across all digital and vendor-managed touchpoints.
Job description
Key Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day CRM operations for relevant brands: campaign scheduling, workflow monitoring, data quality checks, content updates, and issue resolution
- Oversee companion app management for relevant brands: content update coordination, user experience issue tracking, and vendor communication for fixes and releases
- Monitor refill coordination program performance for relevant brands: ensuring vendor-managed outreach is meeting refill timing targets and SLAs
- Monitor adherence metrics for relevant brands daily and weekly: refill rates, reminder response rates, program enrollment, persistence trends, and drop-off indicators
- Execute brand-specific adherence program configurations within the CRM: setting up new campaigns, adjusting outreach rules, and updating content for launches
- Coordinate with hub operations teams (Access, Affordability) to ensure adherence touchpoints are sequenced correctly for assigned brands
- Flag operational issues and performance gaps to surface CRM workflow failures, vendor SLA misses, and drop-off spikes as they happen
- Support post-launch adherence operationalization, including identification of adherence challenges, workflow updates, and program refinement
Points of Collaboration
- AD, Patient Adherence Operations: Reporting relationship; brand assignments, performance standards, escalation support, vendor strategy input
- Brand teams (assigned TA/brands): Brand-specific campaign setup, content updates, launch coordination, and ongoing adherence program optimization
- CRM, refill, and counseling vendors: Day-to-day vendor coordination: campaign execution, SLA tracking, issue resolution, data feed management
- Hub operations teams (Access, Affordability): Ensuring adherence touchpoints are coordinated with upstream patient support for assigned brands
- Patient Acceleration & Insights Ops: Supporting testing and go-live of new adherence capabilities being deployed into production for assigned brands
- AD, HUB Metrics and Performance Measurement: Adherence performance data integration into CoE dashboards, metric alignment
- DHH: CRM data quality, platform configuration support, integration troubleshooting for assigned brands
Necessary Skills & Competencies
- 5+ years in biopharma patient services, CRM operations, digital health operations, or adherence program execution
- Hands-on CRM experience: campaign management, workflow configuration, data quality monitoring, and issue troubleshooting
- Experience managing companion app or digital health tool operations in a production environment
- Strong understanding of adherence barriers, including treatment drop-off drivers, patient engagement challenges, and therapy persistence
- Strong operational discipline to own daily execution for assigned brands; consistency and reliability are the priority
- Vendor coordination skills: managing day-to-day delivery across multiple vendor types, tracking SLAs, and resolving operational issues
Required Education
Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or related field; MBA preferred or equivalent degree
Preferred Skills
- 5+ years pharmaceutical marketing
- Proven ability to innovate and deliver patient support capabilities or innovative solutions that are impactful
- Exceptional knowledge of digital trends and technologies that will drive digital audience growth
- Experience in planning and managing budgets across channels while achieving high volume growth targets
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment with multiple changing priorities
- Proven ability to work in a matrixed organization with multiple stakeholders
Requirements
- 5+ years in biopharma patient services, CRM operations, digital health operations, or adherence program execution
- Hands-on CRM experience: campaign management, workflow configuration, data quality monitoring, and issue troubleshooting
- Experience managing companion app or digital health tool operations in a production environment
- Strong understanding of adherence barriers, including treatment drop-off drivers, patient engagement challenges, and therapy persistence
- Strong operational discipline to own daily execution for assigned brands
- Vendor coordination skills: managing day-to-day delivery across multiple vendor types, tracking SLAs, and resolving operational issues
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or related field
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Retirement Benefits
- 401(k)
- Paid Holidays
- Vacation
- Compassionate & Sick Days
- Annual Bonus
- Long-Term Incentive
Company overview
Merck & Co., Inc., known as Merck in the United States and Canada and MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme) internationally, is a premier American multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey. Founded in 1891 as the U.S. subsidiary of the German Merck Group, the company became independent following World War I and has since grown into one of the world's largest biomedical companies, ranking fourth globally by revenue. Merck operates across three core business segments: pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and animal health products. The company is renowned for its groundbreaking research and development, having brought numerous life-saving medicines to market including Keytruda (pembrolizumab), a leading immunotherapy for cancer treatment that generated $29.5 billion in 2024 revenue, and Gardasil, a revolutionary HPV vaccine. With approximately 75,000 employees worldwide, Merck maintains a robust pipeline of innovative therapies focused on oncology, vaccines, hospital acute care, cardiology, neuroscience, virology, immunology, and diabetes. The company invests heavily in R&D, spending $17.9 billion in 2024 alone, demonstrating its commitment to advancing scientific discovery. Merck's legacy spans over 130 years of bringing hope to humanity through important medicines and vaccines, operating with a purpose to use leading-edge science to save and improve lives globally while fostering an inclusive workforce and responsible business practices.