Merck KGaA Posted August 11, 2026

Senior Director - Group Portfolio Execution Lead, Integration & Carve-Out (all genders)

Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany FULL_TIME
BD&L & Strategic Planning Senior Director

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About this opportunity

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Job details

Seniority
Senior Director
Function
BD&L & Strategic Planning
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

Computed from every other active BD&L & Strategic Planning role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 37 comparable Senior Director BD&L & Strategic Planning roles across 15 biopharma companies.

37Comparable roles tracked
36Currently active
15Companies hiring similar roles
6Countries represented

Salary context

16 of 37 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Director, Group Portfolio Execution · Merck KGaA $151,900/yr – $227,900/yr
Peer group range $189,900 – $355,000 (median $260,550)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 37 comparable roles

United States21
China7
United Kingdom4
Germany3
Spain1
Switzerland1

Seniority mix

37 of 37 peers have a known seniority level

Director26
Executive/VP7
Senior Director4

Therapeutic area mix

7 of 37 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Immunology3
Oncology3
Cardiovascular / CVRM1

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The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

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How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

50%
Director International Commercialization Immunology (f/m/d)
Regeneron GmbH · Munich, Germany · Director
Function Therapeutic area Adjacent seniority Country
45%
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Shenzhen Sanofi Biological Products Co., Ltd. · Beijing, China · Senior Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
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Merck KGaA · Burlington, Massachusetts, United States · Senior Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
35%
Executive Director, Corporate Development
Gilead Sciences Shanghai Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd. · Shanghai, China · Executive/VP
Function Therapeutic area Adjacent seniority Country
Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.