Senior Specialist, Technical Development Operations

Moderna Therapeutics - Norwood, MA

Full-time - Mid Level

Norwood, MA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Specialist in Technical Development Strategic Operations at Moderna will play a pivotal role in deploying a robust and integrated digital framework across a complex portfolio of technical programs. This position is based onsite at Moderna's Technology Center campus in Norwood, MA, and reports directly to the Director of Strategic Operations. The successful candidate will be responsible for translating the Technical Development (TD) strategy into actionable execution, focusing on data manipulation, mining, and visualization, as well as enhancing cross-functional data communication. The role involves developing and implementing digital tools and analytics to scale up data integration capabilities within the Technical Development team. In this highly collaborative position, the Senior Specialist will work closely with a diverse range of subject matter experts across various sub-functions within Technical Development and beyond. The candidate will be tasked with creating and deploying digital tools, dashboards, and analytics that support stakeholder needs, ensuring timely and accurate data collection, analysis, and reporting. This includes understanding data visualization needs, authoring user requirements, and building databases and integrated dashboards that focus on critical business needs such as resource management, budget tracking, KPIs/metrics tracking, material planning, and program and portfolio timeline reporting. Additionally, the Senior Specialist will interpret data, compile results, and create presentations and reports to effectively communicate data insights. The role also involves supporting business process development and optimization workstreams, improving TD systems and tools, and enabling the scale-up of project management capabilities. A successful candidate will contribute to building and maintaining the Technical Development culture and community, ensuring that the organization continues to innovate and excel in delivering Moderna's medicines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior members of the Strategic Operations team and other cross-functional teams to ensure timely and accurate data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Create and deploy digital tools, dashboards, and analytics to support stakeholder needs within Technical Development.
• Understand data visualization needs, author user requirements, build databases and integrated dashboards focused on various business needs such as resource management, budget tracking, KPIs/metrics tracking, material planning, and program and portfolio timeline reporting.
• Interpret data, compile results, and create presentations and reports to communicate data insights.
• Support business process development and optimization workstreams.
• Improve TD systems and tools and enable scale-up of project management capabilities.
• Continue to build and maintain the Technical Development culture and community.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or related technical discipline.
• 5 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree or 2 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree.
• Strong data manipulation and data mining skills.
• Proficiency in data visualization and presentation tools (e.g., Tableau, Excel, PowerPoint).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in supporting the building of digital tools to support business processes and data visualization while applying principles, concepts, practices, and standards of drug development.
• Demonstrated understanding of the drug development lifecycle from R&D through commercialization, including an understanding of the interdependencies of functional groups such as process and analytical development.
• Expertise in data mining, data visualization, and dashboards utilizing platforms such as Tableau, Smartsheet, Spotfire, Alteryx, Python, etc.
• Proficient in project management software: Smartsheet, MS Project, etc.
• Proficient in collaboration tools such as MS Teams, SharePoint, Miro.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• High level of effective organization.

Benefits

• 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!