Specialist, Onboarding

Based in Hyderabad, you will have the opportunity to join a global healthcare biopharma company with a 130-year legacy of success. The company is known for its ethical integrity, forward momentum, and inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare. As part of an organization driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches, you will support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. Your role will involve driving innovation and execution excellence, utilizing data, analytics, and insights to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats. The Technology Centers focus on creating a collaborative space where teams deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. These centers play a key role in the company's IT operating model, enabling digital transformation and driving business outcomes globally. As an Onboarding Lead, you will be responsible for creating and managing an engaging onboarding experience for new IT employees, ensuring a seamless transition into the company culture and operations. You will collaborate with HR, IT area leaders, hiring managers, and new hires to design onboarding programs that promote engagement, retention, and productivity. In this role, your responsibilities will include developing and implementing a comprehensive onboarding program aligned with company goals and values, assessing onboarding needs for different IT roles, facilitating orientation sessions and training programs, monitoring and evaluating the onboarding process, creating and maintaining onboarding materials, serving as a point of contact for new employees, conducting follow-up surveys and check-ins, analyzing onboarding metrics, and fostering relationships across departments for a unified onboarding experience. To be successful in this role, you should possess a Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or a related field, along with at least 3 years of experience in onboarding, training, or HR-related roles. You should have proven experience in designing and implementing onboarding programs, familiarity with HRIS systems and e-learning platforms, and certification in HR or training (e.g., SHRM, ATD) is a plus. Strong communication, interpersonal, organizational, and project management skills are essential, as well as proficiency in using onboarding tools and platforms, analytical mindset, creativity in developing engaging training materials, and knowledge of employee engagement strategies. Join us at Merck & Co., Inc., where we are committed to inventing for life and delivering innovative health solutions to advance the prevention and treatment of diseases worldwide. If you are passionate about making a difference and collaborating with a diverse team to bring hope to people battling challenging diseases, apply now and start making an impact today.,