Counsel, Commercial – EMEA

The Role:

Moderna is seeking a Commercial Counsel – EMEA to provide legal support for Moderna’s growing presence in Europe, Middle East and Africa. The role provides a unique, rewarding opportunity to help build Moderna’s presence in the region, including opportunities to counsel on local legal requirements, contracting, regulatory matters, alliance management and market access as an integral part of Moderna’s EMEA legal team. The successful candidate will play an instrumental role in the scale up of a platform-based biotechnology company, and in building the regional Legal function to support long-term growth.

This position will be based in Moderna’s Warsaw, Poland office.

Here’s What You’ll Do:

• Business partner with Moderna commercial and medical teams across EMEA.
• Partner cross-functionally and collaborate with business and legal stakeholders acting as enterprise connector to ensure global excellence, consistency, and compliance.
• Collaborate with Compliance, including supporting the creation and implementation of policies and processes.
• Support contract drafting and implementation and dispute resolution (if applicable) related to distribution, procurement, commercial, medical, and strategic alliance relationships.
• Support on GxP and regulatory compliance topics, including interactions with health authorities.
• Support government tenders and other country supply negotiations and implementation.
• Effectively engage with and oversee interactions with outside counsel across the region.
• Advise on engagement with patient organizations and health care professionals and support medical affairs/scientific engagement activities, including congresses and advisory boards.
• Support Government Affairs activities, including engagement with industry associations.
• Participate in promotional review, grant review, and medical review committees.
• Advise on competition law issues and manage competitor complaints
• Provide operational legal support to Moderna’s International Business Service Centre in Warsaw.
• Support Moderna’s access strategy in low- and middle-income countries, including potential initiatives with non-governmental organizations such as UNICEF and GAVI.
• Be curious about Moderna’s mRNA platform and relentlessly support its commercialization for a potential COVID-19 vaccine and in other modalities.

Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• Legal qualification from an accredited law school; admitted into practice and in good standing.
• 5+ years of post-qualification legal experience, in pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
• Fluency in English and at least one other European language with an ability to draft and negotiate complex contracts in both languages.
• Strong drafting and communication skills, and an ability to maintain a high level of attention to detail without losing sight of the big picture.
• Ability to collaborate and provide support across a broad range of key areas and with a variety of functional stakeholders.
• Intense sense of urgency, curiosity, and ambition to excel and build something from the ground up, navigating all the requisite ambiguity and complexity that comes with writing the rulebook while executing in real time.
• Excellent presentation, collaboration and influencing skills.
• Enthusiasm and a passion to enable an exciting new technology platform through successful launches of innovative mRNA-based medicines.
• A desire to be part of a high-growth, transformational company that is Bold, Relentless, Curious, and Collaborative

Moderna offers personalized benefit programs and well-being resources as unique as our global workforce so employees can do their best work.

We recognize and appreciate your diverse needs and interests and do our best to support you at work and at home with:

• Quality healthcare and insurance benefits
• Lifestyle Spending Accounts to create your own pathway to well-being
• Free premium access to fitness, nutrition, and mindfulness classes
• Family planning and adoption benefits
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, bank holidays, volunteer days, sabbatical, and a discretionary winter break
• Educational resources
• Savings and investments
• Location-specific perks and extras!

The benefits offered may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Moderna and the country where you work.

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.