Sr. Manager, Technical Development Operations

The Role

Technical Development seeks a Senior Manager who will be responsible for translating our strategies into execution. The Technical Development organization is comprised of scientists, engineers, and problem solvers that develop and implement the most innovative, advanced, and robust platform manufacturing processes and analytical technologies to deliver Moderna’s medicines. In this highly cross-functional role, you will collaborate within the Technical Development organization and beyond, including technical subject matter experts (SMEs), CMC leads, Program Managers, GMP Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and R&D. This is an onsite role based in Moderna’s Technology Center campus in Norwood, MA.

The role requires a master integrator gifted in bringing together people, technical concepts, and business goals with best-in-class execution. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are comfortable rolling up your sleeves – if a process doesn’t exist yet, you define it. You are comfortable applying program and project management principles to ensure cross-functional teams are well informed, organized and primed to execute. People applaud your ability to deliver in real and often high stakes situations. You can digest new technical concepts and leverage this understanding to develop strong collaborative relationships with technical peers.

Here’s What You’ll Do

• Drive the day-to-day execution of Technical Development strategy in product teams, technical sub-teams and other operating groups with clear communication, prioritization, and escalation.

• Oversee the management of critical cross-functional projects within the Technical Development portfolio by providing project management and business process expertise.

• Lead team meetings and ensure clear agendas are set, actions and decisions are documented, communicated and committed to, enabling timeline achievement.

• Develop tools and framework for comparison and selection of technical risk and timeline scenarios.

• Enhance, create and maintain tools, workflows and business processes to keep information flowing within teams (examples: resource management, batch planning, budgets).

• Build strong working relationships across departments, with key stakeholders to ensure transparency and to facilitate communication.

• Collaboratively develop and maintain interactive dashboards from the data gathered, providing trackable metrics and regular readouts on program/project/initiative progress.

• Right-size processes borne from rapid growth, bringing them to scale.

• Continue to build and maintain the Technical Development culture and community.

• Additional duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Here’s What You’ll Need (Basic Qualifications)

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s or PhD degree in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or related technical discipline

• Experience: 10 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree or 8 years of relevant experience with a Master’s degree or 2 years of relevant experience with a PhD degree.

• Experience with project management software: Smartsheet, MS Project or similar.

• Experience with collaboration tools such MS Teams, SharePoint, Miro

Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications)

• Advanced Degree Preferred

• Understanding of the biopharmaceutical development lifecycle from R&D through commercialization, including an understanding of the interdependencies of work done in various functional groups such as Process and Analytical Development.

• Previous experience with supporting regulatory filings (IND or BLA).

• Ability to apply project management/integration tools and principles.

• Outstanding communication skills and ability to operate effectively in ambiguity by anticipating and balancing needs of multiple stakeholders.

• Exceptional skills at facilitating teams and building consensus with membership comprised of diverse levels and areas of the company.

• Working knowledge or awareness of data visualization tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, SmartSheet or similar

Moderna is pleased to provide you and your family with a comprehensive and innovative suite of benefits, including:

• Highly competitive and i