Merck KGaA Posted September 19, 2026

Associate Chief of Staff - Strategy

Bangalore, Karnataka, India FULL_TIME
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About this opportunity

Work Your Magic with us!

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That`s why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimageable with us.

Your role

Act as a trusted partner to the Head of Strategy and Chief of Staff across strategic, operational, and communications activities.

You will operate at the intersection of strategy, leadership support, communications, and execution, gaining visibility across strategic priorities and senior-management activities.

Provide day-to-day support to the Head of Strategy / Chief of Staff, including agenda planning, meeting preparation, scheduling, coordination, and follow-up.

Coordinate meetings and leadership forums across multiple stakeholders, ensuring the right participants, materials, decisions, and actions are in place.

Prepare agendas, briefing materials, pre-reads, minutes, action logs, and follow-up communications.

Track key priorities, actions, and deliverables across multiple stakeholders and functions.

Interface with Portfolio / PMO teams to track strategic priorities, dependencies, risks, milestones, and progress, helping surface issues and support timely escalation

Use Microsoft 365 tools, including Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, to improve collaboration, information flow, and execution.

Apply Power Automate, AI, and other automation approaches pragmatically to improve productivity, reduce manual effort, and enhance ways of working.

Who you are

You bring a strong combination of analytical rigor, communication excellence, and operational reliability. You are comfortable moving between strategy, leadership support, coordination, and execution, and you take ownership of your work from start to finish.

You have 2–8 years of professional experience in strategy, consulting, business management, communications, PMO, or a comparable corporate function, with a track record of delivering high-quality work independently.

You have strong proficiency in Microsoft 365, including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook. Practical experience with Power Automate or similar productivity and automation tools is an advantage.

You are comfortable exploring and applying AI tools responsibly to improve productivity, structure information, draft materials, automate routine activities, and enhance ways of working.

You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to draft clear, concise leadership and stakeholder communications and translate complex topics into compelling materials for diverse audiences.

You have strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and develop well-reasoned recommendations.

You are highly organized and detail-oriented, with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, meetings, and stakeholders simultaneously without losing quality or momentum.

You have a proactive and ownership-driven approach to work, able to anticipate needs, take initiative, coordinate effectively, and follow through on tasks and projects without step-by-step direction.

You demonstrate strong meeting and coordination skills, including the ability to prepare effectively, capture clear decisions and actions, and ensure timely follow-up.

You are comfortable working across functions and engaging with stakeholders at different levels of an organization.

Experience in a multinational or complex corporate environment, with exposure to senior stakeholders and strategic or PMO-related activities, is an advantage.

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and believe that it drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging those impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of our diverse team

Job details

Seniority
Associate
Function
Information Technology
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Information Technology role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 233 comparable Associate Information Technology roles across 34 biopharma companies.

233Comparable roles tracked
209Currently active
34Companies hiring similar roles
17Countries represented

Salary context

34 of 233 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 · 2027 Business Technology Solutions Intern - Data & Software Engineering (Undergraduate) · AbbVie $21/hr – $37/hr (≈ $43,680–$76,960/yr)
Highest disclosed · Sr Program Manager, Software · Johnson & Johnson $157,000/yr – $271,400/yr
Peer group range $60,320 – $214,200 (median $165,900)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 233 comparable roles

India107
United States72
Spain13
Greece10
China5
Portugal5

+ 11 more countries

Seniority mix

233 of 233 peers have a known seniority level

Manager167
Associate49
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc17

Therapeutic area mix

0 of 233 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.

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