Job Description
General Summary:
The International Business Engagement Lead - CF is a key technology business partner in ensuring that the Vertex International business can achieve their ambitious goals in Cystic Fibrosis and beyond. This role will implement and maintain strong relationships across Commercial teams, understand the business domain, and is accountable for articulating the technology roadmap to achieve business outcomes. Excellence in relationship management, demand management, strategic planning, matrix collaboration, and clear communications are key skills required to delivering consolidated roadmaps, identifying business needs, and implementing innovative solutions for a growing Vertex International business.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Become a trusted partner of the business leaders within their remit, understanding their needs and vision
- Engage as a key participant in the strategic business planning process
- Design, implement and manage effective technology governance processes for the business areas within their remit, including demand management, prioritisation, and dependency mapping.
- Act as the DTE escalation point for projects and operations
- Articulate and maintain a technology roadmap to support and advance the business' objective, factoring in an understanding of future directions of the business, as well as changes in the technology landscape.
- Ensure DTE work is prioritized, conduct dependency mapping across activities, and drive risk & issue mitigation
- Advocate for the needs of the International business whilst maintaining alignment with global DTE processes
- Provide advice, suggestions on how processes can be improved, and lead change management, where required
- Work closely with DTE Compliance, Internal Audit, and Quality Assurance groups as needed to ensure compliance with all appropriate regulations, as well as our DTE system lifecycle and change management requirements
Knowledge and Skills:
- In-depth and specialized knowledge in the core disciplines of project management, business analysis, and demand management
- Significant experience in building productive partnerships with business stakeholders, negotiating & influencing, and relationship management,
- In-depth and specialized understanding of the business, processes, and any appropriate regulatory environments
- Results oriented manager with a proven track record of on-time project delivery for large, complex projects with global stakeholders
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and ability to present in a clear and concise manner to all audiences
- Exceptional analytical, quantitative, problem-solving, and prioritization skills, including the development of business cases/ value propositions
- Substantial program/ project management, demand management, resource management and system life cycle expertise
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities including development of business case / value propositions
- Proven capabilities in people management and building high-performing teams
- Prior experience with running IT managed services or outsourced/ offshore teams
- Superior MS Office skills, including MS Project & Visio, Excel and PowerPoint Experience
- Strong experience in Agile methodology
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in technology discipline or equivalent
- Typically requires 8 years relevant business systems in the Life Sciences industry, or the equivalent combination of education and experience
Flex Designation:
Hybrid-Eligible Or On-Site Eligible
Flex Eligibility Status:
In this Hybrid-Eligible role, you can choose to be designated as:
1. Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week; or select
2. On-Site: work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.
Note: The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertex’s Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.
Company Information
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.
Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.
Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the recruiter or hiring manager, or contact Talent Acquisition at [email protected]
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vertex Pharmaceuticals and has not been reviewed or approved by Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies provide 12 weeks of 100% paid bonding leave for all U.S. parents with additional fully paid time for birth parents. Family-forming supports include adoption and surrogacy assistance, fertility options like IVF and egg cryopreservation, breast‑milk shipping, subsidized childcare, backup care, and a DCFSA match.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes roughly four weeks of vacation, 13 holidays, sick time, and two companywide shutdowns (summer and year‑end). Some roles also include flexible or unlimited time off and paid volunteer time.
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Retirement Support — Programs include a 401(k) plan with employer contributions and an employee stock purchase plan. Filings describe employer contributions occurring in company stock, supporting long‑term ownership.
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What We Do
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. We discovered and developed the first medicines to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF), a rare, life-threatening genetic disease. In addition to clinical development programs in CF, Vertex has more than a dozen ongoing research programs focused on the underlying mechanisms of other serious diseases. Founded in 1989 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, our corporate headquarters is now located in Boston’s Innovation District, and our international headquarters is in London, United Kingdom. We currently employ approximately 3,500 people in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America with nearly two-thirds of our staff dedicated to research and development. Vertex is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top places to work by Science Magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal and the San Diego Business Journal. Our research and medicines have also received esteemed recognitions, including the Robert J. Beall Therapeutics Development Award, the French Prix Galien and the British Pharmacological Society awards.
