Manager, Program Management
- Employer
- Moderna, Inc.
- Location
- Cambridge, MA
- Start date
- Nov 18, 2022
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- Discipline
- Clinical, Clinical Development, Clinical Project Management, Information Technology, Project/Program Management, Software Development
- Required Education
- Masters Degree/MBA
- Position Type
- Full time
- Hotbed
- Genetown, Best Places to Work
Job Details
The Role:
This role is an exciting opportunity to join the Infectious Diseases Research program management team to advance programs within portfolio spanning from discovery to early development. As a program manager, you will play a critical role in shaping strategy, facilitating communication, driving execution, and managing change within a high paced and product-focused environment. You will work cross-functionally and cross-organizationally to support cross-functional research program teams driving multiple concurrent programs in the global health space. Your contributions will be essential to accelerating the delivery of novel mRNA medicines to transform the lives of patients.
This position reports into the Director, Portfolio Strategy & Operations, and is based in Cambridge, MA.
Heres What Youll Do:
Collaborate with internal cross-functional researchers and external collaborators to build and maintain strategically aligned integrated program plans
Guide programs through concept, strategy and execution stages and support sustainable translation into the early development space
Ensure highly effective cross-functional team and cross-organizational communication, coordination & action item follow up
Employ your experience and acumen to manage key risks, prioritize and optimize workstreams, and manage change impact to ensure delivery of program outcomes
Partner with Research Operations to identify, prioritize and facilitate resourcing and operational workflows necessary to enable scientific collaboration & execution
Work dynamically to meet program challenges utilizing a tailored approach to adaptively meet individual program prioritized needs
Manage tools & provide regular program updates to satisfy executive, therapeutic area and program team level reporting requirements
Play a leadership role as part of research program teams, utilizing a highly collaborative and influential approach to ensure program outcomes are delivered
Heres What Youll Bring to the Table:
You are comfortable acting as an owner and enjoy a highly dynamic and collaborative approach to drive program success in a fast-moving research organization.
You have at least 5years of experiencein project and program management field with a demonstrated track record of successfully driving early-stage product development programs in the research space
Experienced in leading or working within cross-functional project teams, including defining objectives and deliverables, building, and maintaining project/program plans, and resource and budget management
Experience in managing multiple concurrent internal and external collaborative programs simultaneously, including defining integrated strategic workplans to ensure effective and coordinated delivery of outcomes across institutions
Exceptional communication skills with a strong focus on actionable outcomes and delivery
You have a strong understanding of the Research cycle that is employed across the pharma industry
You put team before tasksby collaborating actively with all team members and supporting them
You work independently yet engage proactively with team members, colleagues, and stakeholders to get alignment and drive projects and programs forward.
A desire to be part of a high-growth, transformational company that is Bold, Relentless, Curious, and Collaborative and a passion for bringing new medicines to patients.
Knowledge of project and program management tools and timeline visualization software (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, etc.), Smartsheet experience is highly preferred
Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline required with prior laboratory experience, candidates with a masters degree and/or relevant experience in infectious disease research preferred
Candidates with PMP or other professional project or program management credentials preferred
Experience with external alliance and/or CRO management a plus
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 persons 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
- Website
- https://modernatx.com/
- Phone
- 617-714-6500
- Location
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200 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA
United States
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