Associate Director, Digital Marketing, Customer Engagement Planning and Measurement

Job Description

As a key member of the Customer Engagement Planning & Measurement team, this Associate Director role will lead the Omnichannel go to market efforts and work with teams of analytic professionals and external media, creative and analytics agency partners.

As we move towards faster insight-gathering, faster decision-making and improvement in the ability to execute more efficiently across multiple channels, we need to be able to deliver relevant information, solutions, and services to our customers how and when they need it. It is imperative that we understand our customers’ engagement preferences more deeply and execute on those insights more efficiently across our promotional mix.

In this role, which is more commonly referred as the Customer Engagement Architect (CEA), this individual will;

• Define and develop the promotional HCP & consumer activation and engagement strategic go to market plans

• Improve our ability to Go-To-Market and engage customers in a timelier, and relevant way.

• Collaborate with a wide array of stakeholders including Marketing, Promotions, Market Research, Analytics, various agencies/consultants, and the broader U.S. enterprise for shared resources.

Key responsibilities include and are not limited to the following:

• Utilize business strategy and customer insights to identify customer opportunities in digital channels

• Develop omnichannel go-to-market strategy and design of longitudinal customer engagement plans to ensure positive customer experience.

• Leverage brand segmentation and customer insights to develop digital go-to-market segments

• Responsible for defining channel, media and third-party digital partnership choices aligned to strategic priorities and behavioral/communication objectives to drive business impact

• Design Customer Engagement Journeys to deploy omnichannel campaigns & support differentiated content needs

• Perform in-depth analysis of customer-level engagement data (non-personal and in-person sales) from a variety of sources to inform the brand team of opportunities and choices.

• Utilize self-service media analytics tools and perform analyses of customer level engagement data across channels

• Develop test and learn agendas with defined measurement plans

• Monitor performance vs. objectives to identify optimization opportunities while in-flight

• Partner with internal and external teams to uncover >

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  The salary range for this role is

  $142,400.00 - $224,100.00

  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:

  10%

  Flexible Work Arrangements:

  Hybrid

  Shift:

  Not Indicated

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  No

  Hazardous Material(s):

  n/a

  Job Posting End Date:

  06/8/2026

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