Associate Director, Business Analytics & Insights, Clinical Operations

Role Summary

Associate Director, Business Analytics & Insights, Clinical Operations will be accountable for development and implementation of analytical and financial systems, tools, and processes to perform business analytics within Clinical Development Operations (CDO). The role involves analyzing, automating/digitizing clinical operational and financial data, providing insights for governance decisions and enhanced vendor negotiations, and supporting clinical study planning, design costing, forecasting, and reporting. This is a dynamic, collaborative position interfacing with multiple functions within Moderna.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain 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 analytic approaches to improve CDO’s ability to answer clinical operational business questions by collaborating with stakeholders to transform questions and data into analytic solutions.
• Execute and lead Business Analytics initiatives and projects, ensuring analytical approaches are built according to best practice with scalability 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.
• Liaise with internal and external partners to assess and 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 practices, systems, processes, and training for the financial planning and forecasting of clinical studies.
• Provide subject matter expertise to individuals and teams on 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 amendments to existing studies; support planning and ensure accuracy of clinical trial budgets and forecasting, including modeling spend and maintaining cost models.
• Serve as Project Lead for internal and external system implementation, tracking and communicating progress, deliverables, milestones, and timelines related to system implementations.

Qualifications

• 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 and 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 collaboration skills and commitment to delivering on expectations
• 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 and act strategically
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a dynamic, cross-functional matrix environment

Education

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD from a top-tier institution