Senior Associate Manufacturing Sciences and Technology (MS&T)

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The Role

This is a newly created role in the Manufacturing Science and Technology (MST) department to support Moderna’s Contract Manufacturing Organization (CMO) activities in Europe for drug substance manufacturing.

The individual will work closely with CMOs to ensure that all aspects of technology transfer and technical support are successfully executed. The individual also must establish strong relationships with Moderna’s internal departments: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Regulatory, and Quality Teams.

The individual will support tech transfer, process validation activities and life cycle CMC activities, including protocol generation, oversight of CMO execution and summary report generation as well as ensuring continued process verification for Moderna products.

Please note: This role is required to be predominantly based in Visp. Preference will be given to candidates who are either based in the Visp region, or can commit to travelling there for at least 3x days per week

Here’s What You’ll Do

• Support technology transfer activities for clinical/commercial products into CMOs.

• Provide technical support of cGMP manufacturing at CMOs including authoring of technology transfer documents, supporting change controls, closing manufacturing investigations, and helping validation actives.
• Analyze manufacturing performance through data review and analyses. Author manufacturing summary reports. Establish and maintain data repositories.
• Lead cross functional troubleshooting and operational improvements for manufacturing process and equipment.
• Author and execute protocols supporting process characterization and equipment scale up in cGMP Manufacturing.
• Maintain alignment with other global manufacturing sites through shared knowledge, shared manufacturing data, shared manufacturing issues, and common solutions.
  

Here’s What You’ll Bring To The Table

• (Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Engineering, etc.)

• Process development or operational experience in one or more of the following bioprocessing unit operations: Enzymatic reaction, chromatography, tangential flow filtration, buffer formulation.
• Previous work experience in cGMP environment is advantageous.
• Experience in working with Single-Use equipment is advantageous.
• Outstanding communication skills in English (verbal and written, basic knowledge of German is favorable).
• Ability to manage projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to effectively collaborate in a dynamic, cross-functional matrix environment.
• Ability to adapt to new and challenging technical opportunities.
  

About Moderna

In 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a science research-stage company advancing programs in the promising-but-still-unproven field of messenger RNA (mRNA), to an enterprise with its first medicine having treated millions of people, a diverse clinical portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics across six modalities, a broad intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for both clinical and commercial production at scale and at unprecedented speed. 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 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 auto-immune diseases. Today, 24 development programs are underway across these therapeutic areas, with 13 programs having entered the clinic. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past six years. To learn more, visit

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free and drug-free work environment.