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Sr. Director, CMC Procurement - Drug Product

Employer
Moderna, Inc.
Location
Norwood, MA
Start date
Mar 23, 2023

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Discipline
Administration, Marketing, Science/R&D, CMC
Required Education
Bachelors Degree
Position Type
Full time
Hotbed
Genetown, Best Places to Work

Job Details

The Role

Moderna is seeking a Sr. Director, CMC Procurement, for Drug Product to be responsible for category management, sourcing, supplier management, and stakeholder engagement for Modernas Global Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) spend. This is a global role supporting Modernas various sites and key stakeholders.

The Sr. Director, CMC Procurement, will be responsible for managing an annual spend of approximately $1B in the various Drug Product categories. The role will be responsible for developing and delivering on a global Drug Product category strategy that provides the optimum balance of value delivery (cost, performance, and quality) from Modernas supply base in these categories.

Heres What Youll Do

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Build and cultivate strategic stakeholder relationships to find the optimum balance between meeting company needs and delivering total value. Ensure alignment across the cross-functional teams on the business and technical requirements.

  • Category Management: Maintain and execute category plans and update annually with stakeholders including detailed analysis of past and future spending, existing relationships, and external trends. This will include the assessment of the health of the CMOs business. Develop and manage multi-year category roadmaps and pipelines of sourcing initiative projects.

  • Strategic Sourcing: Implement strategic sourcing initiatives utilizing a standard framework and departmental tools. This includes:

    • Partnering with stakeholders to build robust scopes of work.

    • Developing sourcing strategies for individual initiatives.

    • Implementing RFx activities utilizing advanced tools and techniques.

    • Preparing and implementing advanced negotiation strategies.

    • Partnering with stakeholders and legal to negotiate and finalize agreements.

    • Developing the Moderna preferred Drug Product CMO Terms and Conditions and driving standardization across the network.

  • Supplier Management: Leverage a standard framework to classify suppliers and implement SRM programs.

  • Risk Management: Evaluating and monitoring the risk profile of the supply base, identify mitigation targets, and implement risk improvement initiatives.

  • Savings Delivery: Develop a portfolio of sourcing initiatives and deliver cost reductions against challenging current and multi-year saving targets.

Heres What Youll Need (Minimum Qualifications)

  • Bachelors degree required, preferably in a technical discipline

  • Minimum 12 years of experience in a large or medium-sized professional procurement organization with at least 5 years specifically in the biopharmaceutical industry

  • 8+ years of category management experience in the areas of Drug Product, Fill Finish and Contract Manufacturing Organizations

  • Prior experience managing direct reports

  • Project management experience, including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk, develop detailed project plans and specifications, and run internal team meetings as well as external meetings with proven track record in engaging teams together towards common deadlines

Heres What Youll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications)

  • A proven track record of savings delivery and ability to manage complexity and change

  • Ability to analyze CMO data to support savings, market trends and business driven decisions

  • Masters degree (MBA, MS) preferred

  • Ability to work in a highly metric-driven environment and deliver against challenging performance targets

  • Professional procurement certification (CPSM, MCIPS, Etc.) desired

  • Strong presentation skills including verbal and written to deliver succinctly and effectively recommendations to senior leaders

  • Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills

  • Solution-oriented with a growth mindset and strong attention to detail

  • Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

  • Ability to solicit and synthesize feedback and build consensus, while collaborating effectively in a dynamic, cross-functional matrix environment

  • A deep desire to be a key part of building a world-class Procurement function

  • Ability to lead through influence, recommend sourcing strategies, and deliver business results.

  • Comfortable with ambiguity

  • Strong collaboration and communications skills required to address and resolve issues

  • A desire to make an impact as part of a high-growth, transformational company that is 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 year-end shutdown
    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

 

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Phone
617-714-6500
Location
200 Technology Square
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United States

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