Strategy and Operations, Associate Director

The Role

The Strategy and Operations Associate Director (SOAD) is responsible for providing, the oversight, governance, and delivery of key strategic projects for Moderna’s operations in Australia. This is an exciting and pivotal role supporting critical projects associated with a long-term Strategic Partnership with the Australian government, and in establishing Moderna’s Operations in Australia. The role is part of the Australian Leadership team and will report directly to the General Manager for Australia and New Zealand.

As the SOAD, you will be responsible for coordinating the milestone delivery oversight and governance across Moderna’s operations in Australia. You will ensure that milestones and commitments are met in line with the agreed project plan and objectives, and be responsible for project status updates to senior leaders

You understand how to plan and execute on project milestones, actively managing the risks, issues and interdependencies to ensure the overall project delivery critical path is preserved, escalating issues early to the General Manager. You have a keen eye for detail, can pre-empt emerging issues and know how to remove roadblocks through navigating the organisational structure, processes, and systems.

As an expert in Project Management, you will be an internal resource and coach to the General Manager and local organization, providing guidance and support to the delivery streams and to the broader enterprise on how to manage delivery risk.

This role will develop, define and coordinate the oversight and governance mechanisms for various work streams across the organization, with the critical responsibility of communication and integration across all those processes related to those work streams. A key skill set for this role is to manage cross-functional program or project teams, establish appropriate strategies and plans to meet the timelines to preserve the critical path of the program or project(s), develop and maintain appropriate program or project charters and drive priorities/task assignments in-line with overall objectives/goals.

The role will involve complex programs supporting initiatives across business units and corporate functions (both locally and globally) that function in a matrix operating structure, e.g., Manufacturing, Human Resources, Commercial Operations, as well as engaging and collaborating with multiple government departments (Federal and State).

The SOAD will also serve as an advisor to the General Manager in ensuring the effective establishment and governance of Moderna’s operations in Australia.

Here’s What You’ll Do

The Strategy and Operations Associate Director will develop timelines and roadmaps, provide governance, lead Commercial program or project teams though program or project planning, lead workshop facilitation, drive execution and manage risk, allocate budgets and resources appropriately, and coordinate interdependencies across all the functions. Specifically:
**Definition and Planning**: Develop and document high-level strategies for accomplishing specific project objectives. Define program or project’s scope, resource requirements, roadmaps, milestones, and budgets. Develop and drive integrated plans, aligning tactics with overall strategy. Organize, facilitate, and document team meetings and workshops. Lead risk management within project teams, ensuring risks have appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.

**Monitoring and Controlling Progress**: Develop and maintain schedules, timelines, KPIs, milestones, and performance reports. Track progress towards accomplishing program or project milestones and deliverables in respective management reporting tools and templates. Identify and find solutions to resource conflicts and appropriately alerting management if issues cannot be resolved.
Stakeholder Management. Provide input and updates to the cross-functional senior leaders in accordance with the overarching program governance. Interface regularly with management (local and global) to ensure an appropriate level of stakeholder communication. Work with other PMO and workstream leads to ensure that programs remain on time.

**Knowledge Management**: Ensuring all program or project documentation is current, complete, stored and shared in a way that is consistent with the PMO standards. Proposing improvements and best practices for governance, processes, tools, and templates to ensure the successful management and reporting of respective initiatives.

**PMO / Agile Centre of Excellence**: Be a resource that can coach and embed best practice Project Management / Agile ways of working principles across the enterprise to ensure executional excellence and complete alignment of priorities and resource allocation.

Here’s What You’ll Bring To The Table
Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years’ experience
MBA or advanced degree in Management /Program Management preferred
Extensive and broad Management Consulting experience
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