Hybrid Senior Product Analyst, Process Optimization

at MSD

• Job title: Senior Product Analyst, Process Optimization
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $117,000 - $184,200 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Senior Product Analyst supporting advanced manufacturing and process analytics applications at a biopharmaceutical company. Focused on delivering digital solutions for operational excellence across global manufacturing sites.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary user-facing partner for advanced process analytics use cases, supporting investigations, monitoring, and continuous improvement through various applications (e.g. Seeq)
• Discover, document, and manage business processes, opportunity statements, use cases, and user requirements related to advanced process analytics
• Translate manufacturing and MS&T user needs into clear problem statements, requirements, and user stories that are traceable through delivery and testing
• Facilitate structured user feedback and synthesize insights into prioritized backlog items in partnership with Technical Product Managers
• Represent user needs in product planning and prioritization discussions, balancing business value, compliance expectations, and platform strategy
• Collaborate closely with manufacturing, engineering, digital, analytics, and platform teams to ensure solutions align with MPI standards and governance
• Participate across the product SDLC by supporting requirements refinement, backlog readiness, user acceptance testing, release planning inputs, and post-release feedback
• Develop and deliver training materials, documentation, and user enablement activities to drive adoption and effective use of analytics capabilities
• Build and maintain a strong domain understanding of manufacturing process data, analytics use cases, and workflows supported by the MPI ecosystem

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering or equivalent technical field with 6+ (six or more) years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated experience with advanced industrial analytics
• Advanced knowledge of probability and statistics
• Strong ability to translate business needs to technical requirements, and to communicate digital concepts to non-technical personnel
• Strong interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to negotiate with key stakeholder groups and drive/influence results in a dynamic environment
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and ability to independently develop innovative solutions for complex problems
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with a globally distributed team
• Practice in Agile Methodology and Continuous Improvement and with a Digital & Innovative mindset
• Expertise in authoring and executing technical documentation following industry standards and methodologies (SDLC, AGILE)
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm, and innovation
• Ability to understand manufacturing or business process context and reflect it accurately in data transformations and metadata

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits, including 401(k)
• paid holidays
• vacation
• compassionate and sick days