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Tiffani Howard

Head of Commercial Excellence & Innovation, U.S. Oncology, Merck

Tiffani Howard is Head of Commercial Excellence & Innovation for U.S. Oncology at Merck, where she leads the teams and capabilities that connect commercial strategy, customer engagement, and innovation to drive business performance across the industry’s leading oncology portfolio. Her organization helps accelerate growth by advancing how the business engages healthcare providers and patients, activates commercial capabilities, and transforms ways of working across the enterprise.

With more than 15 years of commercial leadership experience spanning oncology, metabolics, and consumer healthcare, Tiffani has built brands, launched products, transformed customer experiences, developed high-performing teams, and led organizations through periods of significant growth and change.

Prior to Merck, she held leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson and brought an entrepreneurial perspective to her career as the founder of TRM Consulting and House of Renée.

Tiffani holds an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and completed the Global Leadership Pathway at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.