Job Description
General Summary:
The Marketing Associate Director is accountable for understanding the market landscape, defining and developing key business activities and tactics to support goals of the brand/portfolio, and measuring the success of those activities/tactics.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Partners with brand/team-lead to help shape the brand strategy, segment the market, develop messaging and launch into new segments, including label expansions
- Directs the development and implementation of strategic and tactical plans for assigned product
- Collaborates with Vertex external communications review committee to approve materials for external use with customers
- Generates and consolidates key insights across HCPs and patient stakeholders through market research, ad boards, etc.
- Develops strong partnerships with cross-functional team to support business goals
- Ensures appropriate metrics are in place to measure impact of tactics in field
- Leads and manages agency partners to ensure on budget and timely deliverables
- Acts as an advisor or coach to mentor other members of the team
Knowledge and Skills:
- Direct experience with communications review committee for review of tactics
- Ability to oversee generation of insights and apply those insights to business problems/opportunities
- Strong analytical mindset to lead others to solve complex problems
- Demonstrated ability to develop strategy, make strategic recommendations, and monitor performance
- Strong working knowledge of market forecasts and relationship of business drivers to revenue
- Strong working knowledge of MS Office applications, including PPT, Excel and Word
- Experience in pharmaceutical marketing or closely related field(s) (e.g., pharmaceutical sales, ad agency, etc.)
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or scientific degree
- Typically requires 8 years of experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience
Flex Designation:
Hybrid-Eligible Or On-Site EligibleFlex 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.
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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]
Skills Required
- Direct experience with communications review committee for review of tactics
- Ability to oversee generation of insights and apply those insights to business problems/opportunities
- Strong analytical mindset to lead others to solve complex problems
- Demonstrated ability to develop strategy, make strategic recommendations, and monitor performance
- Strong working knowledge of market forecasts and relationship of business drivers to revenue
- Strong working knowledge of MS Office applications, including PPT, Excel and Word
- Experience in pharmaceutical marketing or closely related field(s) (e.g., pharmaceutical sales, ad agency, etc.)
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or scientific degree
- Typically requires 8 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
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.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Insights
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.







