Associate Director, Global Market & Customer Insights RSV/FLU

The Role

The Associate Director, Global Market & Customer Insights, for RSV & Fly will sit within the Commercial organization but offers an exciting opportunity to shape and innovate the insight function across the Moderna Enterprise building collaborative relationships with stakeholders in Commercial, Medical and Corporate functions in both Global, Regional and Local Market teams. The function is inherently cross-functional and focused on mRNA as a platform to support development of multiple assets in a much shorter timeline than is the norm in the biopharma space.

The Associate Director is expected to lead coordination for the definition of open questions, design of data generation vehicles, definition of scope and methodology, and report and insight socialization for RSV, influenza and other respiratory pathogens pre-launch and inline vaccines. This role will partner with a broad and diverse set of stakeholders including R&D, Access, HEOR, Medical, Commercial and Corporate.

The role is required to have strong strategic consultative presence and leverage technical skills in market research and analytics to lead strategic insight generation for the purpose of commercial, medical and corporate brand strategy and to support design of commercialization and go-to-market plans. The AD will help define the relevant insights agendas, data requirements, projects and budget to support it, and will maintain the insights that underpin each brand strategy.

The role will also focus on insight generation and socialization to support the pre-launch plans for mRNA-1345 (Respiratory Syncytial Virus for older adults) vaccine and subsequent RSV launches; as well as mRNA-1010 and future influenza vaccine launches. This role will collaborate closely with the AD lead for COVID-19 vaccines to support insights for combination vaccines. In addition, this role will entail some support of the Moderna corporate brand.

Heres What Youll Do

• Vendor Management: Manage multiple vendors and contractors aligned with business need, providing regular coaching, feedback, direction and guidance.

• Insight Agenda: Manage Commercial / Medical / Corporate tracking research agenda and budget to reflect the insight gaps and needs of the Respiratory Franchise, in particular COVID-19 vaccines franchise. Provide regular updates to multiple leadership teams and manage a forward-looking insights generation and dissemination plan.

• Research Execution and Insight Generation: Key Performance Indicators & Priority Setting: Partner with Respiratory leadership to clearly define the most important business problems to be identified and monitored in the most efficient way set annual Insights agenda for respective product areas. Manage the budget for assigned area including the Market Research and Data Analytics / Syndicated programs

• Project leadership: Lead collaboration with stakeholders and Decision Science experts in defining the problems, generating metrics, shaping the analyses, and generating and synthesizing insights for the commercial/medical/corporate teams, as well as insights reporting and socialization.

• Collaboration: Align and drive a competitive mindset within the organization through regular collaboration with Competitive Intelligence function in order to ensure comprehensive and relevant marketplace and congress monitoring and reporting aligned to key business needs

• Primary Market Research Center of Excellence: Lead the generation of insight to provide Global/Local commercial/medical/corporate strategy and execution support thru collaboration with the commercial leads, brand teams, and (as appropriate) extended Medical, Marketing, Market Access, International and US stakeholders

• Affiliate Engagement: Build key relationships and processes to align US/Global/Regional/Local Market teams on overall priorities, align efforts on key projects, and communicate and pull through implications

• Brand Planning: Define the key priorities and deliverables that support the annual planning process, including Global Market Outlooks and Situation Assessments (as appropriate) for COVID-19 vaccines and combination vaccines

• Develop Center of Excellence Capabilities (Functional)

  • Work with the Decision Sciences, Medical Excellence & Digital Leadership Team to identify and implement improvements to team operations including Market Research, Data Analytics & Knowledge Sharing/Dashboarding processes, knowledge management processes and capabilities, project management processes, and vendor management strategies.

  • Innovate the insight function by developing piloting and training on new and novel insight methodologies

Heres What Youll Need (Minimum Qualifications)

• Bachelors degree in business, life sciences, pharmacy, or similar discipline

• Minimum 8 or more years of relevant experience within a pharmaceutical company, market research vendor, or consulting firm supporting the pharma/biotech industry

• Experience with core insights tools such as market maps, customer journey, segmentation, positioning, messaging platforms, etc., and how they inform the pre-launch commercialization process

Heres What Youll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications)

• Desired prior experience working with a of biopharmaceutical company in a market research function

• Experience managing direct reports or multi-function consulting teams

• Ability to navigate and manage the needs of multiple stakeholders, including Executive Committee members, and help shape the direction of team peers and senior colleagues

• Strong project management skills, ability to manage multiple projects

• Strong communication skills, particularly presentation skills

• Excellent strategic thinking capabilities and equally excellent tactical execution skills

• Strong understanding of marketing and market research principles

• Analytical horsepower extremely strong analytic and quantitative skill set and knowledge of pharma data sources

• Driven, highly self-motivated, confident, high-energy, bright and creative individual with desire and ability to own a high-profile part of the business

• Exceptional team player, with the ability to develop and apply individual market research expertise in service of Brand Aligned Insight team objectives

• 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!

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 a place where everyone can grow. If you meet the Basic Qualifications for the role and you would be excited to contribute to our mission every day, please apply!

Moderna is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry or citizenship, ethnicity, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law. Moderna is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Belonging, Inclusion, and Diversity are critical to the success of our company and our impact on society. Were focused on attracting, retaining, developing, and advancing our employees and believe that by cultivating diverse experiences, backgrounds, and ideas, we can provide an environment where every employee is able to contribute their best.

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