Senior Director, Brand Portfolio and Communications Portfolio

The Role:

Reporting directly to the Chief Brand Officer, this role will be responsible for organizing and overseeing the Brand and Communications Portfolio of ongoing programs and special initiatives. This role will sit at the intersection of Brand and Communications strategy, portfolio, and delivery, with broad exposure across the function and interdependent business areas. This role will help develop best-in-class practices in how we deliver priorities across the business and engage key stakeholders to ensure readiness and adoption of key Brand and Communications work/initiatives.

This role will partner closely with the Brand & Communications Leadership Team, Commercial and Digital Operations to gather a holistic view of team priorities, informing a comprehensive portfolio of work spanning integrated programs and business priorities. Ultimate success of this individual will be proven by a planful and integrated Portfolio roadmap, and successful delivery and adoption of those initiatives broadly.

We work collaboratively as a team, we are relentless in the pursuit of excellence, we curiously will boldly challenge the status quo if we can provide a better way, and we aim to strike a balance between process efficiency, effectiveness, and controls and compliance. We are committed to delivering accurate, timely, and insightful information with an elevated level of customer service, while striving to continuously improve our processes to help scale our operations to support future growth.

Here’s What You’ll Do:

• Serve as the Brand and Communications Portfolio and programs liaison for Brand and Communications Leadership and key business stakeholders, providing collaborative guidance and advice on program management strategies and frameworks to drive the successful completion of portfolio priorities

• Develop and implement an innovative Brand and Communications Portfolio strategy and program management framework

• Develop and maintain integrated Portfolio and priorities roadmap

• Support portfolio deliverables and processes to ensure accuracy, visibility, alignment, and optimization of Brand and Communications’ strategic financial investment

• Develop the Portfolio Management processes, proper cadence, and channels (bi-weekly status reports, roadmaps, governance), and support through formatting dashboards and ensuring accuracy and visual consistency across all Portfolio channels

• Partner across Brand and Communications team and key business stakeholders to help inform and guide strategic programs, projects, and other initiatives

• Manage the full project lifecycle of the program portfolio and projects, ensuring cross-functional teams work collaboratively and effectively

• Design and support scalable infrastructure (processes, tools and templates) to enable best-in-class end-to-end project delivery

• Help define initiative value proposition, scope, work plan, resource needs, timeline, and budget,

• Identify risk mitigation and success criteria/measurement

• Help to communicate project status, milestone progress/achievement, and risks and issues to team leadership

• Manage special integrated brand projects as needed across the portfolio

• Partner with key Program Owners and Subject Matter Experts across Moderna to ensure audiences receive the right level of information in a timely matter in support of Brand/Comm’s strategic portfolio, programs, and other initiatives

• Drive and maintain consistency across the Portfolio in terms of execution, status tracking, change management and communication activities

• Measure and track program effectiveness through qualitative and quantitative methods

• Develop a keen understanding of various cross-functional audiences and their needs, common interdependencies

• Conduct regular checkpoints with key partners such as Commerical (including global), GMs, digital and Decision Sciences

• Partner with the Brand/Comms LT, Finance, Digital and other key business stakeholders to gather insights/interdependencies informing portfolio management and execution

• This role is based in Cambridge, MA and is expected to be in office 70% of the time.

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

Basic Requirements:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent is required

• 10+ years of relevant experience in project management

• Brand and Communications functional knowledge required

• Change management and program communications experience required

• Experience working with senior leaders in a dynamic and ambiguous environment

Preferred Requirements:

• Ability and affinity for working in a