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Director, Clinical Development - Rare Disease

Employer
Moderna, Inc.
Location
Cambridge, MA
Start date
Jun 24, 2022

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The Role:

Programs in Therapeutics Development are a key part of Moderna’s portfolio. Comprising a dynamic & collaborative community of clinical development physicians and scientists across Autoimmune, Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, Hematology, and Rare Diseases, we are driving scientific innovation to deliver transformational medicines.

Moderna is seeking an MD with experience in clinical development to contribute to the clinical strategy for your therapeutic program(s) and oversee a clinical team accountable for trials to execute the strategy. This role offers you the opportunity to utilize advanced scientific and statistical principles and digital technology in collaboration with your peers to help build Moderna’s pipeline. At least 3 years of industry experience is required. 

This role will report to Moderna’s Therapeutic Area Head for Rare Disease, Autoimmune or Exploratory Disease.  The position is based at Moderna’s Cambridge, MA site. 

The successful candidate is driven, curious, collaborative, with a bold ambition to contribute to the development of ground-breaking mRNA-based therapeutics.  The candidate must have excellent oral and written communication skills, and a collaborative way of working. 

Here’s What You’ll Do:

  • Contributing to the integrated and innovative clinical development strategy to support the creation and management of the Clinical Development Plan (CDP) for an asset in development

  • Generating the data and evidence required to determine a medicine’s potential efficacy, safety profile, key areas of product differentiation and value to patient in the shortest possible timeframe

  • Developing and maintaining relationships with program counterparts in Commercial, Research, Regulatory, Clinical Operations and Statistics

Scientific Leadership, Direction and Strategy:

  • Interacting across a diverse range of scientific external experts (e.g. regulators, payors, CROs, consultants, investigators) in order to deliver thorough clinical study plans

  • Accountable for risk/benefit of the asset at study level.  Actively leads and makes decisions which balance risk/benefit at the study level with clear understanding of impact on study/project indication approvals; takes action to mitigate risk where appropriate

  • Anticipating study level problems and proactively seeking input from other teams’ members/functional lines within R&D.  Uses scientific/operational expertise to solve study and/or project related problems

  • Drives the study design to support the clinical development strategy and ensures the study optimizes scientific value, patient focus and feasibility of execution

  • Work closely with clinical operations colleagues for efficient delivery of clinical trials

  • Prepares for clinical development discussions at regulatory interactions and clinical components of the submissions (e.g. IND, NDA, BLA, MAA) including briefing documents, presentations, addressing questions and responses

  • Delivers value and access insights to inform medical strategy, expand market access and to address unmet patient need

  • Overcomes obstacles by experimenting with and adopting new ways of working including digital tools and technology

  • Open to implementation of innovative methods and processes within clinical trial designs and thinks differently to come up with business solutions

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

  • MD degree and at least 3 years of clinical development experience either within academia or industry.

  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

  • Attention to detail, internal drive to generate high-quality work, and sense of passion and urgency to achieve team and program goals

  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving and strategic planning skills

  • Experience in clinical drug development with an understanding of multiple diseases, the underlying biology and potential therapeutic targets as well as current and future potential treatment options

  • Clinical training and/or applicable clinical research experience; understanding of clinical development planning and running clinical trial from concept study idea to publication.

  • Some experience managing complex projects and working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders regarding new strategies to ensure consistent communication

  • Ability to maximize and integrate genetic data to advance disease understanding and inform and guide clinical development plans

  • Firm understanding of clinical research methodology and biostatistics principles, to facilitate innovative and efficient clinical trial design, and clinical development plans with clear data-driven decision rules

  • Receptive to championing the use of new learning and digital tools to create innovation

  • Fundamental knowledge in inductive and deductive reasoning, statistics, and in providing mechanisms to interpret and analyze highly complex information including digital content

  • Embodies Moderna’s core values of Bold, Relentless, Curious and Collaborative.

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

  • Highly competitive and inclusive medical, dental and vision coverage options
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for medical expenses and dependent care expenses
  • Lifestyle Spending Account funds to help you engage in personal enrichment and self-care activities
  • Family care benefits, including subsidized back-up care options and on-demand tutoring
  • Free premium access to fitness, nutrition, and mindfulness classes 
  • Exclusive preferred pricing on Peloton fitness equipment
  • Adoption and family-planning benefits
  • Dedicated care coordination support for our LGBTQ+ community
  • Generous paid time off, including:
    •    Vacation, sick time and holidays
    •    Volunteer time to participate within your community
    •    Discretionary winter shut down 
    •    Paid sabbatical after 5 years; every 3 years thereafter
  • Generous Paid Leave offerings, including 18 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for all new parents
  • 401k match and Financial Planning tools
  • Moderna-paid Life, LTD and STD insurance coverages, as well as voluntary benefit options
  • Complimentary concierge service including home services research, travel booking, and entertainment requests
  • Free parking or subsidized commuter passes
  • Location-specific perks and extras!

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

About Moderna

In over 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a 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 seven modalities, a broad intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for rapid clinical and commercial production at scale. 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 and approval 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 autoimmune diseases. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past seven 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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Company

Moderna is advancing messenger RNA (mRNA) science to create a new class of transformative medicines for patients. Moderna’s platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, providing the Company the capability to pursue in parallel a robust pipeline of new development candidates. Moderna is developing therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases and cardiovascular diseases, independently and with strategic collaborators.

mRNA is now a turning point in the history of science, medicine, technology, even humankind itself. With this breakthrough discovery, many of the world’s biggest and most challenging medical problems are no longer a question of “how?” but merely a question of “when?”

Come with us as we pursue the uncharted reaches of possibility and make your mark on the future of medicine.

 

Stock Symbol:

MRNA  

Stock Exchange:

USNASDAQ GS

 

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Location
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United States

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