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Moderna · 3 weeks ago

Associate Director, Business Analytics & Insights, Clinical Operations

Bethesda, Maryland

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$142K/yr - $256K/yr

10+ years exp

Moderna is a leading mRNA technology company committed to changing medicine and improving lives. The Associate Director, Business Analytics & Insights, Clinical Operations will develop and implement analytical and financial systems to enhance clinical study planning and decision-making, collaborating with various functions within the organization.

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Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain both internal and external financial and operational benchmarking and forecast systems and tools, facilitating predictive analytics in terms of cost and operational delivery of clinical studies and enhanced financial forecast accuracy

Proactively identify new and innovative analytic approaches that will improve CDO’s ability to answer clinical operational business questions by closely collaborating with key stakeholders to transform business questions and data into analytic solutions

Execute and lead Business Analytic initiatives and projects, ensuring analytical approaches implemented are built according to best practice and with eventual scaling in mind

Manage and analyze complex datasets, applying data wrangling, modeling, and pipeline design techniques

Apply data governance and master data management principles to ensure consistency and quality

Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into actionable analytics

Liaison with internal and external partners to assess/implement data sharing

Deliver accurate, innovative, and timely insights (creation of dashboards and monthly reports providing transparency into TA, Indication, Study & Task level comparative metrics and pricing trends)

Assist Director in collaboration with CDO functions and R&D Finance to establish best practice, systems, processes and training for the financial planning and forecasting of clinical studies

Provide subject matter expertise to individuals and teams upon request related to quarterly forecasting, actuals and accruals reporting, variance analysis, budgeting, and long-range planning

Support teams in financial assessment and impact for new studies, programs, and/or amendments to existing studies

Support teams for planning and ensure accuracy of clinical trial budgets and forecasting, including modeling clinical study spend and maintaining or developing system to maintain cost models with related assumptions

Serve as Project Lead, for internal and external system implementation, clearly tracking & communicating progress, key deliverables, milestones, and timelines as relates to the implementation of systems

Qualification

Data analyticsClinical research experienceFinancial forecastingVBA programmingSQL programmingTableau proficiencyPower BI proficiencySpotfire proficiencyDatabase designAnalytical reasoningBusiness acumenCollaboration skillsProblem-solvingRelationship building

Required

Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD from a top-tier institution and relevant experience

Minimum of 10+ years of experience in a clinical research environment within the pharmaceutical, CRO and biotech industry, inclusive of data analytics experience

Direct experience in implementation and management of clinical pricing, benchmarking tools and systems to support operational & financial aspects of clinical studies

Experience developing and executing analytic solutions to address key business questions with measurable outcomes and insights

Track record of establishing effective business relationships with internal and external customers, demonstrating strong collaboration skills, commitment to relationship building, and a relentless focus in delivering on commitments

Has a passion for hands-on data, analytics, and business strategy projects

Analytical reasoning abilities, intellectual curiosity, strong business acumen, and creativity in problem-solving

Experienced Programmer in VBA, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Spotfire

Strong skills in database design and management

Strong analytical skills and the ability to think/act strategically

Ability to collaborate effectively in a dynamic, cross-functional matrix environment