JOB REQUIREMENTS

We’re looking for students of Czech Universities, who are interested in a long-term collaboration with MSD IT.
Have you always wanted to work in a company where your work can have a real impact? Do you enjoy working in an international environment with lots of room for personal development? Are you ready to join a company where we cherish Diversity and Inclusion and the wellbeing of our employees?
Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

WHAT SHOULD YOU KNOW / HAVE:

• Current MSc or PhD student
• Background in Biology, Chemistry, Medical science, or Bioinformatics
• Strong written, listening, communication and organizational skills
• Eagerness to learn scientific processes, drug discovery and development process, and regulatory requirements as necessary to solve business problems
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively

WE WILL BE HAPPY IF YOU KNOW SOME OF THESE:

• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations

WHO WE ARE …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

• Cooperate with scientists to gather and document scientific business requirements, user stories, business processes/workflows for new IT solutions.
• Gains expertise in the business areas as well as technical aspects of the IT solution.
• Contribute to prototyping and building state of the art informatics tools, pipelines and dashboard, which solve biological problems.
• Principles of software development life cycle (SDLC), User Experience (UX) and Agile Development (Scrum/Kanban).
• Using product management tools including Jira, Confluence and Mural.
• Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.
• Establish relationships with scientists from different MSD laboratories around the World, with opportunities for short-term company visit abroad as part of your future career in MSD.