2025 University Recruiting Co Op - ESG Strategy & ...

Job Description Position Description: 2025 University Recruiting Co Op - ESG Strategy & Engagement The role of the Graduate Co-Op position is a unique opportunity to join our company as a contributor to the company's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts, helping to achieve greater sustainability, transparency and disclosure. The individual selected for this role will work under the guidance of the Executive Director, ESG Strategic Consulting in a fast-paced and changing environment. The ESG Strategy & Engagement team is part of Our Company's Social Business Innovation (SBI) department within Corporate Affairs. In addition to ESG, SBI includes teams focus on health equity, global impact giving, impact investing and community engagement. The ESG Strategy & Engagement team works closely with these groups as well as with senior leaders and partners in the business, including R&D, Manufacturing, Commercial Operations and Market Access, Finance, Risk Management, Corporate Strategy, Legal, Treasury, Investor Relations, Global Public Policy, and others on a day-to-day basis. The role will serve as a member of a high-performing ESG Strategy & Engagement team, focusing on the company's commitment to operating responsibly to enable a safe, sustainable and healthy future for people and communities everywhere. In this position, the Intern will have the opportunity to engage in several opportunities and projects in the ESG Strategy & Engagement team. Two key opportunities include: supporting the expansion of the company's global-to-local ESG strategy initiative, and supporting activities related to the company's to preparation for regulated reporting. This work will support ESG Strategy & Engagement team's mid-term objectives: a) unifying internally to adopt a singular understanding and data-driven approach to ESG, including shared responsibility across the company globally. b) leveraging our ESG efforts to help enhance the public's trust and our reputation as a company that acts in the best interest of society. This opportunity is an exciting, rigorous and real-world career development opportunity in a rapidly evolving field. You'll have the opportunity to be mentored by a diverse team of inspired, intellectually curious people. Co-ops are exposed to many facets of our business, including networking with senior leaders. Desired Experience / Skills Health economics, public health, and/or data science analysis Strong project management and communication skills Comfortable influencing without authority Growth mindset Be able to push forward without complete information Duration: 6 months FTP2025 GSF2025 Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission. Current Employees apply HERE (Current Contingent Workers apply HERE (US and Puerto Rico Residents Only: Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here ( if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit: EEOC Know Your Rights (EEOC GINA Supplement"‹ Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination (English_formattedESQA508c.pdf) We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively. Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts (U.S. Hybrid Work Model Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, generally Tuesday, Wednesday and either Monday or Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence. This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as 'remote'. Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails. Employee Status: Intern/Co-op (Fixed Term) Relocation: No relocation VISA Sponsorship: No Travel Requirements: 10% Flexible Work Arrangements: Remote Shift: 1st - Day Valid Driving License: No Hazardous Material(s): N/A Job Posting End Date: 10/28/2024 A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date. Job Posting End Date: 10/28/2024 A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date. Requisition ID: R310280

Created: 2024-11-02