Director, Technology Partnership

Role overview

This role leads technology partnership efforts for Animal Health IT Commercial IT Value Team across the Asia Pacific Sub-Sahara Africa (APSA) region. The position is focused on building trusted senior-level relationships, aligning regional business priorities with IT strategy, and converting regional plans into measurable digital outcomes.

The role also acts as a change leader as the region moves from locally managed technology toward a global product-based model. A key part of the job is to promote global platforms while making sure APSA-specific business needs continue to be met.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and sustain strong working relationships with senior business stakeholders across APSA, while also leveraging partnerships inside the global IT organization to create business value.
• Supervise team members through both direct and shared reporting structures.
• Contribute as a core member of the Animal Health IT Commercial Value Team leadership group, helping steer people strategy, technology direction, and value delivery.
• Drive an integrated, value-focused approach to investment planning, program planning, and project prioritization across a complex technology portfolio, especially within the marketing technology environment.
• Ensure that the most important business outcomes are executed and tracked through regional and global delivery teams, with value realization measured over time.
• Align regional business strategy with technology investments in areas such as eCommerce, CRM, websites, digital marketing, data quality, master data management, pricing, rebates, sales incentives, and AI-enabled efficiency solutions.
• Represent the global product model within APSA, explaining its benefits and building agreement among senior leaders.
• Create a strong engagement model between business partners and IT teams based on trust, accountability, and effective collaboration.
• Promote a unified Business–IT strategy for the region while accounting for local market realities across APSA.
• Lead the design and rollout of compliant, strategically aligned solutions for regional business needs.
• Maintain up-to-date awareness of technology trends and future opportunities relevant to commercial competitiveness in APSA markets.
• Rank portfolio investments to support high-value strategic opportunities, with preference for global commercial and digital platforms.
• Work with global product leaders to shape roadmaps and introduce innovations that can scale across markets.
• Oversee regional demand planning, portfolio planning, forecasting, and ongoing updates across APSA.
• Coordinate demand intake and prioritization, and encourage resource and expertise sharing for projects and support work across a geographically and culturally diverse region.
• Partner with Finance and portfolio management teams to meet operational and budget commitments.
• Lead a team of individual contributors supporting regional commercial technology work and business-program execution.
• Coach and develop the team to succeed in a global product-centric structure, strengthening cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, and platform-first thinking.
• Work with internal and external IT teams to align priorities and deliver solutions and services effectively for the region.
• Review talent needs and sourcing strategies regularly, and implement a people plan with a strong inclusion focus.
• Be willing to travel up to about 30% of the time, including international travel within APSA.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business, or a closely related field.
• At least 10 years of experience in IT covering commercial, sales and marketing, and/or supply chain processes and systems.
• Background in leading large-scale technology change, ideally moving from regional or local systems to a global platform or product model.
• Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority in a globally matrixed organization.
• Experience working with global product line owners or within a product-centric IT environment is strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to balance regional business needs and global technology priorities.
• Prior people-management experience, including leading account managers, business analysts, or similar roles.
• Strong customer-facing business partnership skills, including account management and relationship management.
• Proven ability to translate business goals and requirements into IT services and capabilities.
• Experience coordinating projects and services across national boundaries and building cross-functional teams, especially in the Asia Pacific region.
• Track record of managing portfolios and finances to deliver business objectives.
• Working knowledge of software development lifecycle practices and agile methods.

Other details

The role is a regular full-time position based onsite in Singapore, Singapore, with a hybrid flexible work arrangement noted in the posting. Travel may be required up to approximately 30%.

The posting does not specify salary, bonus, stipend, number of openings, application deadline for candidates in this extract, visa sponsorship details, relocation support, shift timing, or driving-license requirements beyond the listed fields. The requisition ID is R405900.

About the company

MSD is part of the global healthcare organization known as Merck & Co., Inc. in the United States and Canada. The company focuses on developing medicines and vaccines for major diseases affecting people and animals worldwide, and emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and impact-driven work.

Candidate profile

The ideal candidate is a relationship-driven technology leader who can connect regional stakeholders with global IT capabilities, guide organizational change, and deliver business value in a complex multicultural environment.

Posting and agency notice

The job posting is valid until 07/31/2026, and applicants are expected to submit no later than the day before that end date. The employer also states that unsolicited submissions from search firms will not be accepted without a valid written agreement for this position.