Mary Ann Makary

Director, Strategic Planning @Merck

Lead gathering, insight and delivery of strategically aligned business and competitive intelligence to support informed decision-making across the global Merck enterprise, providing deep strategic insight, identification of competitive opportunities and risk analysis: • Tailor competitive intelligence assignments to meet diverse needs of enterprise-wide stakeholders • Perform strategic analysis to determine business development decision risk with insight into current and future state implications, providing stakeholders with decision-making tools • Plan, execute, maintain, and continuously improve complex intelligence business programs and projects (e.g, primary competitive intelligence and competitive simulation) across 7 therapeutic areas with potential to contribute to cardiovascular metabolic portfolio • Develop and maintain relationships with cross-functional internal stakeholders and external partners