Maximilian Hardt

The Merck GOglobal Graduate Program in Marketing & Strategy Healthcare is a 24-month rotational program for Master and PhD graduates. Participants rotate within the Marketing & Strategy function across different departments and therapeutic areas in the Merck Healthcare Business.

Third assignment of the GOglobal Graduate Program • Development of a cost-saving model in diabetes • Leading a price optimization project in the thyroid market • Conducting trainings with local/regional teams on a health economic model in diabetes

Second assignment of the GOglobal Graduate Program, based in London (UK) • Forecasting (Neurology & Oncology) • Market & business intelligence (Neurology) • Sales Management (Fertility and General Medicine)

First assignment of the GOglobal Graduate Program • Orchestrating the cross-functional strategy development process • Answering strategic questions with the help of financial and clinical data as well as scenario analysis

• Student employee in the sector Performance Materials • Analyzing potentials of trends and innovations on the basis of sales- and market-data • Developing tools to evaluate project ideas at an early stage

• Division: Healthcare & Life Science • Team member of several parallel projects covering market access, pricing and reimbursement strategies for pharmaceutical companies, all of them with a multinational scope • Activities: Conducting expert interviews, setting up price models and developing concepts of primary research

• Owning presentations on the top management level • Projects in: CSR, Sales, Compliance, Marketing • Project with responsibility for staff in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Student employee with responsibilities in empirical analyses of customer relations, market research, technical sales support and in MS Excel-concepts

• Tutor of a course concerning empirical research methods in economics (“Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung”) at the Chair of Financial Economics (Wirtschaftsweise Prof. Dr. Isabel Schnabel)

• Employee in the marketing department of a startup company • Responsibilities for projects concerning strategy, online-marketing and data ascertainment

• Tutor of a fundamental course of economics (“Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre”) at the Chair of International Economics (Prof. Dr. Philipp Harms)

• Intern in the department of Marketing and Public Relations • Writing articles for the intranet, internet and employee magazine

• Majors: Marketing Analytics und Managerial Economics • Member of the Dean's List • Experimental master-thesis in the intersection of economics, marketing and psychology including data analysis in R (1.0)

• Semester abroad at the leading business school in Poland, Grade: 4.9 /5 • Scholarship of the Peregrinus Stiftung and Erasmus

• Grade: 1.4 • Major: International Economics & Public Policy • Bachelor-thesis in marketing (1.0)