James Ryan Email & Phone Number

Burlington, MA, US

Burlington, MA, US

Leading Data, Analytics & AI Strategy for the Enabling Functions of Merk KGaA. Member of the Merck Data Council and Head of the Enabling Functions Data Office.

Burlington, MA, US

• Created a Global Analytics Group to address the needs of Merck Group Functions (Finance, Procurement, HR, Business Services)
• In 4 years scaled group to €15 million annual project budget and a team of 45 in direct line organization, partnered with global vendor to design a Build, Operate, & Transfer (BOT) program to grow offshore IT.
• Transitioned Operating Model away from Waterfall towards an Agile methodology.
• Initiated the assessment and subsequent modernization of Data Warehousing capabilities; now implementing Snowflake and it’s scalable,cloud based architecture to handle the ever increasing structured data sets being.
• Catalogued Group Data Assets and published to Enterprise Data Lake (AWS, Palantir Foundry) for use in ML, Text Analytics and other use cases as part of Enterprise Data Strategy
• Delivering transformational program to simplify, automate and modernize Financial Planning Processes across the enterprise with technical implementation using SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

Darmstadt, DE

• Responsible for a portfolio of a diverse set of global analytics applications and technologies (SAP BW/HANA. Informatica, Qlik, Tableau, Business Objects) serving more than 10,000 users across the global Merck end user.
• Transformed the support model by successfully negotiating, planning and implementing a Global BI Application Management Service (AMS). This hybrid onshore/offshore resource model led to 25% reduction in annual support.
• Embraced the capabilities of a more Modern Data Stack (Hadoop, HIVE, HBASE) to implement applications for Business Technology (KPI Trend Analysis) and Healthcare (Transparency Spend for Regulatory Reporting).
• Responsible for the technical execution of Legal and Management Financial Reporting at Month, Quarter and Year End for a company with an $85 billion market capitalization.

Darmstadt, DE

• Selected by IT Leadership Team for International Assignment at Global HQ in Darmstadt, Germany in order to further develop global role and advance the integration of the Chemicals IT Team.
• Implemented PROS, a next generation Price Analytics and Optimization tool that allowed Commercial Teams to analyze price, margin and discounts historically and subsequently implement new pricing strategies.
• Implemented Commercial Data Warehouse (SAP BW/HANA) for Chemicals, bringing together multiple legacy businesses and systems.
• Accountable for vendor management involving €7.5m Euro spend across Enterprise Software and Professional Services companies

Burlington, MA, US

• Focusing on integration activities following the purchase of Millipore by Merck KGaA
• Working closely with Group Finance, successfully delivered the integration of Millipore Sales, Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss (SPER) data into the Merck Corporate Financial Reporting System. The ability to deliver.
• Selected by Senior IT Leadership Team to represent the Chemicals Division on the Merck Enterprise Architecture Governance Board (AGB).
• Delivered integration projects for Sales & Order Reporting (SAP BW) and Territory Management/Incentive Comp (IBM) to support the new Controlling and Sales Organizations

Burlington, MA, US

• Technical Lead for the Financial Reporting Project that delivered a new FP&A system
• Designed a multistage load process for integrating, cleansing, and transforming data from multiple sources into a Financial Reporting Data Mart to support historical analysis and efficient querying
• Implemented Informatica PowerCenter at Millipore, mentoring other developers in best practices

Boston, MA, US

Planned and implemented Release 2 of an Enterprise Data Warehouse focusing on Data Quality and Performance. Managed a team of 6 developer/analysts through a successful project lifecycle.

Boston, MA, US

Lead ETL Developer for the Enterprise Data Warehouse Project involving Informatica, Oracle and Business Objects

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence projects for clients across Financial Services, Insurance and Retail

Chelmsford, Essex, GB

Peterborough, England, GB

Ma, History

Ma, Social Work

Credential Of Readiness (Core), Business Analytics And Financial Accounting

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