Anamika Chanda, Associate Director Merck/TMO on Influential Women

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Anamika Chanda

Associate Director Merck/TMO, Merck

Mount Laurel, NJ

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About Anamika

She is an accomplished digital transformation, agile delivery, and strategic operations leader with over a decade of experience across pharmaceutical, financial services, and technology industries. Currently serving as Associate Director at Merck in Rahway, New Jersey, she directs strategic initiatives in digital manufacturing, animal health, and commercial operations, coordinating cross-functional deliverables to compress project timelines by 30%, spearheading a New Ways of Working framework that delivered the first GMP-compliant AI tool, leading teams to achieve 15 to 25% cycle time reduction across GMP processes, and modernizing governance through OKR-driven work breakdown and structured roadmap tracking. Her earlier career includes serving as Agile Coach and Senior Scrum Lead at TD, where she supported multi-team program delivery across technology, compliance, and operations, improved planning accuracy and dependency management, and coached teams and scrum masters on Scrum, Kanban, governance, personas, story mapping, and customer journeys, and as Service Delivery Lead and Product Manager at Capital One Financial, where she developed expertise in delivery leadership and product management. Her career reflects a deep commitment to operational excellence, agile transformation, and driving measurable business outcomes through innovation and cross-functional collaboration.

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