The Role:

The Program Management team within Clinical Development at Moderna is responsible for management of programs from the pre-clinical stage to licensure. We are seeking a motivated and energetic Program Manager to join our Early Development PM team to support execution of objectives and strategy for pre-clinical/pre-IND and early clinical programs. The successful candidate will work in close coordination with the Program Leader, Research Leader, cross-functional Core team and Clinical team to enable the execution of the timelines to IND filing and phase 1 studies. Assigned programs may span several therapeutic areas including infectious disease, rare disease, autoimmunity, or oncology. The successful program manager will have program management experience in a drug discovery setting and be able to handle several projects in parallel in a fast-paced environment. Program managers help drive their program teams forward in the development of novel mRNA medicines for a wide range of diseases and conditions to make mRNA therapy a reality for patients.

Here's What You'll Do:

The Program Manager will drive programs by:

• Partnering with the research leader to move programs out of exploratory research and into development




• Partnering with the program leader to shape program clinical strategy and execution plan.




• Collaborating with functional leads to define program strategy and proactively identify and escalate gaps and challenges and managing risks through detailed scenario planning.




• Building relationships with key stakeholders (team members and leadership) to ensure alignment of functional and corporate objectives; meeting regularly with the line function representatives to ensure the program remains on track and within budget.




• Coordinating team efforts to develop impactful presentations to summarize complex topics into critical points to facilitate strategic planning and decision-making; preparing program status updates, phase gates, and governance presentations to Moderna leadership and executives.




• Developing and tracking cross-functional activities against program timelines and budget; and accurately maintaining these within Moderna's proprietary digital platform.




• Administering the day-to-day activities, including facilitating cross-functional team meeting, leading discussions to drive decision-making, preparing agenda and meeting minutes, defining and resolving actions items.




• Working with the Finance group to implement and track program budget.




• Contributing to Program Management initiatives to support development and scaling of capabilities, tools and processes.

Here's What You'll Bring to the Table:

• BS degree in a scientific field with a minimum 6 years of experience or MS degree in a scientific field with 6 years of experience in a biotechnology or pharmaceutical setting




• Experience with early development in oncology, infectious disease, autoimmune, and/or rare disease is preferred




• Laboratory experience in an academic or biotechnology setting is preferred




• Project management training, such as PMP is preferred




• Experience with early development in oncology, infectious disease, autoimmune, and/or rare disease is preferred




• Proven track record of successful project management experience preferably supporting early-stage drug development programs, ideally having led the transition of novel candidates from discovery through first in man studies, including IND-enabling studies




• Experience managing or working within cross-functional project teams with timeline management and budgetary responsibility




• Strong knowledge of project management tools and software, including MS Project/Smartsheets and timeline visualization software




• Must be adept at working in a fluid environment and foster a strong collaborative spirit internally and externally.




• Strong personal skills to influence without authority, motivate others and manage conflict.




• Strong written and oral communication skills as well as demonstrated organizationalaptitude

Here's What We'll Bring to the Table:

• On-site subsidized cafeteria or catered lunches


• Company-provided iPhone


• Free parking, monthly subway pass or a subsidized commuter rail pass


• Free annual corporate membership to Bluebikes


• Highly competitive healthcare coverage including: medical offered through BCBS (HMO/PPO), dental, and vision offered through VSP


• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical expenses and dependent care expenses


• 16 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for all new parents


• 16 weeks 100% paid family caregiver leave


• 20 weeks 100% paid medical leave


• Eligible for "Moderna Month" (one month paid sabbatical after five years of service and eligible for additional one month paid sabbatical every 3 years thereafter)


• Adoption assistance and discounts to local childcare centers, as well as access to care.com


• 401k (traditional and Roth offered) with 50% match on first 6% deferred. Match is vested immediately


• A suite of Moderna paid insurance coverage, including: life insurance, short-term and long-term disability


• Voluntary legal assistance plan


• 15 days' vacation and 7 sick days per year, in addition to a discretionary winter shut down and 11 company paid holidays (includes 2 floating holidays)

Candidates should be aware that Moderna currently maintains a policy requiring all US-based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Newly hired employees must be vaccinated prior to their employment start date. Moderna is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under federal, state, and local law.

About Moderna:

In 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a science research-stage company advancing programs in the field of messenger RNA (mRNA), to an enterprise with a diverse clinical portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics across six modalities, a broad intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for both clinical and commercial production at scale and at unprecedented speed. Moderna maintains alliances with a broad range of domestic and overseas government and commercial collaborators, which has allowed for the pursuit of both groundbreaking science and rapid scaling of manufacturing. Most recently, Moderna's capabilities have come together to allow the authorized use of one of the earliest and most effective vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Moderna's mRNA platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, and has allowed the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and auto-immune diseases. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past six years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com.

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free and drug-free work environment.

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Moderna will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

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