Director, Supply Chain Launch Lead

The Role:

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Supply Chain Launch Lead to join our team. You will be responsible for coordinating the global launch of new products through the supply chain process, ensuring that they are launched on time, and with maximum efficiency. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that all supply chain requirements are met and that products are delivered to market as planned.

Here’s What You’ll Do:

• Develops the global launch plan and timelines for Regional/Local execution for seasonal products and leads the cross-functional global launch project ensuring timely execution

• Drive definition and development of the product selection and network strategy for the product(s) under responsibility

• Develops in coordination with Commercial, Regulatory and CMC the global SKU strategy ensuring alignment to local markets

• Supports in conjunction with the Global Process Owner and the Digital team the system set-up and enablement Jurisdictional Control process for the product(s) under responsibility

• Works cross-functionally to ensure the correct master data strategy for Final Drug Product, Distribution and Third-Party Logistics

• Function as Supply Chain primary point of contact internal and external to CMC, including Clinical, Business Development, Marketing, Technical Development, Regulatory and Manufacturing.

• Ensures alignment with the operations team responsible for the pre-filling distribution strategy, including validation batches, FDP mock-ups, DS and DP samples and reference standards

• Stablish and leads the global/regional operations team ensure successful launch readiness of the product under responsibility and defines execution plans of lifecycle change activities in coordination with the LCM team

• Leads global alignment and visibility in collaboration with regional/local Commercial Supply Chain of the plans for filing and launches ensuring compliance and with the designed launch timeline

• Influences primary and secondary container selection

• Develops regional Supply Chain, order management and distribution strategies

• Coordinate with regional/local commercial supply chain the distribution strategy (transport lanes, storage, order types, distribution locations)

• Lead supply chain evaluations of commercial capacity, service and cost requirements.

• Collaborate with project teams to identify project risks, bottlenecks and contingencies and escalate as required.

• Report on progress, risk and dependencies of key program initiatives to senior leadership.

• Build KPI-driven dashboards to track and report progress of execution of product lifecycle priorities.

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

• Education: University degree in technology, engineering, or management/business administration

• Experience: 15 years (BA/BS) or 10 years (MS) in various Supply Chain, Project Management, and Manufacturing functions (strong preference towards Pharmaceutical and Biotech experience)

  • Experience in managing product lifecycle changes

  • Ideally, APICS certification and SAP experience

• Proven ability to navigate a matrix organization structure to influence without direct reporting relationships

• Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written) to collaborate with senior CMC Management in a dynamic, cross-functional matrix environment – you are outgoing, communicative, and seek to build relationships on a daily basis

• Great project management skills – you’re able to manage multiple products in a fast-paced environment

• Well organized – a natural ability to be organized in how you think, communicate and conduct your work

• You drive for results – you set a high bar for yourself and others. You love what you do, and it shows

• Good power point skills to visualize complex content in an easy to view manner would be a big plus

• A curious mindset that allows you to constantly learn and challenge the status quo

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 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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