Associate Director, Patient Adherence Solutions (CRM+)

Job Description

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.

Key Responsibilities

Points of Collaboration

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​

D, 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

Required Skills:

CRM Integrations, Customer Loyalty Program, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Data Analysis, Data Management, Engagement Strategies, Interpersonal Relationships, Liaison Work, Market Access, Retention Strategies, Solutions Design, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Vendor Communications

Preferred Skills:

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The primary location for this posting is:

USA - Pennsylvania - North Wales (Upper Gwynedd)

Where required by law, the compensation range for this role is provided below.

The salary range for the primary location of this role is:

$142,400.00 - $224,100.00

This range reflects the Company's reasonable expectation of the base salary applicable to this role at the time of posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits .

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

11/24/2026 *A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE  the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.

Requisition ID:R420186