Job Description

Strategic Partnerships, Associate Director for The Manuals, a global digital content provider via websites, mobile apps, and digital health integrations with a worldwide audience of 1 billion visits per year in 16 languages. The Manuals are the digital version of an iconic medical textbook, first published in 1899, and a trusted source of medical information for health care professional and patients for 125 years. The position is responsible for helping to find, develop, implement, and maintain strategic partnerships through electronic health record integrations, partnerships with healthcare institutions, integrations with artificial intelligence applications, APIs, linking agreements, infobutton functionality, and search widgets to the Manuals websites.

Location: Ideally, this person will be located in our Rahway or Upper Gwynedd location. However, we may consider possible remote work arrangement.

Responsibilities include:

• Partnership Development: Collaborate with leads globally to explore, develop, and execute strategic partnership opportunities that drive traffic to The Manuals, specifically with EHRs, AI, and other HIT partners.

• Pipeline Expansion: Identify and advance a pipeline of new partnership opportunities and ensure the expansion of key relationships to increase the reach of The Manuals.

• Agreement Management: Monitor current agreements with partners and ensure timely renewals, working with the manager to negotiate deal terms with partners.

• Industry Trends: Stay abreast of new industry trends in the HIT and EHR space, reporting back to the team on their potential impacts.

• Traffic Monitoring: Monitor and estimate monthly traffic from all sources, including major partners, to optimize partnership effectiveness.

• Technical Assistance: Provide frontline technical assistance to partners, ensuring seamless integration of linking agreements, infobutton functionality, and search widgets.

• Trade Show Representation: Attend and represent The Manuals at 10+ trade shows in the healthcare and veterinary medicine space to attract new partners and create awareness.

• Marketing and Communication: Develop marketing plans for key partnerships, execute PR strategies for corporate partners, and ensure partner marketing materials are up-to-date.

• Content Promotion: Coordinate with social media and technical teams to highlight reactive and timely content on The Manuals' websites spanning 14 languages, as well as Veterinary Manual homepages.

• Campaign Management: Design and launch microsites to drive engagement with The Manuals' sites and publicize marketing campaigns.

Minimum Education required:

• Bachelor's degree is required, preferably in business or related fields. Masters degree a plus

Required experience and skills:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in strategic partnership or related roles with a track record of successfully establishing and maintaining strategic alliances.

• Experience identifying and evaluating new partners in the electronic health records (EHR) industry, health care institutions and health information technology (HIT) fields as well as AI technology and other health related fields.

• Excellent presentation skills are required

• Proven negotiation skills

• Strong cross functional collaboration skills

• 20-25% travel.

Preferred Experience and skills:

• Experience in the electronic health record or health information technology industry

• Artificial Intelligence (health bots and agents) understanding and experience

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The salary range for this role is

$139,600.00 - $219,700.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this 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.

You can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

25%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Required Skills:

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence Strategy, Building Partnerships, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Electronic Health Records (EHR), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Marketing Strategies, Strategic Alliances, Strategic Collaborations

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

07/19/2025

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