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The Role

Moderna is seeking an Associate Counsel, Contracts Management & Specialty to support the Commercial Legal department across a wide range of legal and operational matters, with a specific focus on contract management.  The ideal candidate will independently draft, review and negotiate complex commercial contracts and identify and mitigate associated legal issues.  This position will be the primary legal contact for the commercial procurement team.  The ideal candidate must be highly organized, self-motivated, and able to manage multiple projects under considerable time constraints as a critical player on a small legal team.

Here’s What You’ll Do

• Responsible for executing the strategy for the provision of procurement and contract services to the company

• Provide advice to the contract and procurement team and procurement business owners regarding legal issues, laws, rulings, legislation, and regulations related to procurement matters

• Work cross-functionally with our business teams to understand and interpret business requirements into legal terms and conditions; draft, review and negotiate contracts (e.g., vendor agreements, commercial sales agreements, supply agreements, sponsorship agreements) and other legal documents

• Independently manage contracts from intake to execution and help manage post-execution compliance

• Analyze contract requirements, special provisions, terms and conditions to ensure compliance with appropriate laws, regulations, and corporate policy Understand business cases, identify legal risks and effectively communicate risks with procurement team and business owners

• Protect and mitigate company risks that may arise from contractual requirements

• Support the team tasked with improving the commercial contract management system and achieve mastery over use of the system

• Coordinate cross-functional projects and implementing legal initiatives, e.g., creating and maintaining a clause library and playbooks for Commercial contracts

• Collaborate on a variety of compliance and governance matters

Here’s What You’ll Need (Minimum Qualifications)

• JD required

• Minimum 5 years of experience as an attorney drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts

Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications)

• In-house experience at a pharmaceutical or biotech company preferred

• Proficiency in MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and a willingness to gain proficiency in company-specific systems and applications

• Highly organized with strong recordkeeping skills, attentive to detail and accuracy

• Solutions-oriented mindset with creative problem-solving ability

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

• Must be able to develop relationships with internal business partners and outside vendors, and maintain confidentiality

• Must be flexible, able to handle multiple tasks and shift priorities while meeting deadlines and department goals

• Must be a team player with a positive attitude and willingness to provide support as needed

• A desire to make an impact as part of a high-growth, transformational company that is Bold, Relentless, Curious, and Collaborative

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 winter shut down 
  •    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.