Director, Data Management Operational Excellence

The Role

Director, Data Management Operational Excellence serves as the enterprise leader accountable for designing and advancing the global operating model for Data Management and Clinical Data Standards. This role drives strategic standardization, performance optimization, governance, and digital enablement to ensure scalable, high-quality, and inspection-ready data delivery across Moderna's development portfolio. As a senior leader within Data Management, the Director translates portfolio strategy into operational execution frameworks, proactively mitigates regulatory and operational risk, and ensures sustainable inspection readiness through robust oversight, metrics, and process harmonization.

• Leading the strategic design and continuous evolution of the global Data Management operating model, ensuring consistency, scalability, and regulatory compliance across all Therapeutic Areas and development phases.
• Establishing enterprise-wide governance frameworks, standardized processes, and decision-rights models to ensure harmonized execution, accountability, and risk transparency.
• Defining and overseeing a comprehensive KPI and performance analytics framework that enables proactive risk detection, cycle time optimization, quality monitoring, and executive-level portfolio insights.
• Driving inspection readiness strategy for Data Management and Clinical Data Standards by embedding audit-ready processes, documentation standards, traceability controls, and quality oversight mechanisms into routine operations.
• Representing Data Management Operational Excellence as a senior subject matter expert during regulatory inspections, internal audits, and health authority interactions, ensuring confident and consistent messaging.
• Overseeing vendor governance strategy, including performance standards, oversight models, risk escalation pathways, and continuous improvement expectations to ensure compliant and high-performing partnerships.
• Partnering with Clinical Operations, Biometrics, Quality, Regulatory, and Digital functions to strengthen cross-functional data flow, system interoperability, and end-to-end data integrity.
• Leading enterprise process harmonization initiatives, including SOP strategy, playbook development, and global standard implementation to reduce variability and increase inspection resilience.
• Championing digital enablement and automation initiative, advancing technology adoption, analytics capabilities, and intelligent workflow solutions to improve efficiency and reduce manual risk points.
• Identifying and mitigating systemic operational risks through trend analysis, governance forums, and structured escalation pathways, ensuring early intervention and sustainable remediation.
• Influencing resource modeling and portfolio capacity planning to align operational capabilities with pipeline growth and complexity.
• Building organizational capability by developing operational excellence competencies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and mentoring leaders within Data Management.
• Identifying and assigning appropriate deputies to support business in times of absence.
• Setting clear goals, objectives, and expectations for team members and monitor execution.
• Providing guidance and direction to employees in alignment with organizational strategies and priorities.
• Inspiring and motivating team members to achieve their full potential.
• Establishing succession plan(s) and employee development plans to support them.
• Foster a positive and inclusive work culture that promotes collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Following all relevant GxP regulations, guidelines, and company policies to ensure compliance with regulatory and internal requirements.
• Executing tasks precisely as defined in internal guiding documents including but not limited to standard operating procedures (SOPs) and work instructions.
• Following Good Documentation Practices and Data Integrity requirements to ensure data, documentation, and records are completed and maintained for use by the business and available to support audits or inspections.
• Completing training in assigned required learning plan according…