Advanced Analytics Associate Director - Kidney

Vertex Pharmaceuticals LLC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertex Pharmaceuticals LLC is seeking a Director of Kidney Analytics to lead advanced analytics and data science for U.S. kidney initiatives, designing models, dashboards, and data products to drive data-driven decisions across forecasting, market access, sales, and marketing.

The role requires deep commercial analytics expertise, strong programming skills, and the ability to translate complex analyses into actionable recommendations for senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Excel modeling and data analysis skills are required.
• Proficiency in SQL for data querying, transformation, and analysis.
• Python for data manipulation, statistics, predictive modeling and automation.
• SAS or other statistical programming languages are required.
• Power BI dashboard design, development and maintenance.
• Experience analyzing large pharmaceutical datasets.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Forecasting and U.S. Kidney stakeholders to identify strategic analytics questions and opportunities.
• Define analytical requirements and develop workplans delivering timely, actionable insights.
• Design, validate and maintain advanced analytics and data science models.
• Apply statistical modeling, predictive analytics, ML, segmentation, clustering to commercial questions.
• Develop models to evaluate patient, provider, payer, market access, sales and marketing dynamics.
• Integrate data across sources to create scalable datasets and insights.
• Lead KPI tracking, reporting, and performance analytics at national/regional levels.
• Communicate outputs and business implications to senior leadership.

Skills

Excel modeling

SQL

Python

SAS

VBA

Power BI

Statistics

Predictive analytics

Data visualization

Data wrangling

Executive storytelling

Tools

Power BI

SAS

SQL

Job description

General Summary:

Director of Kidney Analytics will provide advanced analytics and data science leadership for strategic commercial initiatives across the U.S. Kidney therapeutic area. This role will use sophisticated analytical, statistical, and data science methods to identify and quantify market drivers, barriers, risks, and opportunities. The Associate Director will lead the development of scalable data products, analytical models, dashboards, and reporting solutions that enable data-driven decision-making across the Kidney business. The ideal candidate combines deep commercial analytics expertise with strong technical and data science capabilities. They will be able to work with large, complex datasets; develop fit-for-purpose models; communicate technical findings clearly; and translate analyses into practical recommendations for senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Partner with Forecasting and U.S. Kidney therapeutic-area stakeholders to identify strategic business questions, performance gaps, and opportunities for advanced analytics and data science solutions.
• Define analytical requirements, recommend appropriate methodologies, and develop workplans that deliver timely, actionable insights.
• Design, develop, validate, and maintain advanced analytics and data science models to identify and quantify market drivers, barriers, opportunities, risks, and emerging trends.
• Apply statistical modeling, predictive analytics, machine learning, segmentation, classification, clustering, and other analytical techniques to address commercial business questions.
• Develop models and analytical tools to evaluate patient, healthcare-provider, payer, market access, sales, and marketing dynamics relevant to the U.S. Kidney business.
• Integrate data across internal and external sources to create scalable datasets, analytical assets, and business-ready insights.
• Lead end-to-end KPI tracking, reporting, and performance analytics at national, regional, and territory levels.
• Analyze business performance trends, identify root causes of performance changes, and provide evidence-based recommendations to support commercial decisions.
• Develop scenario analyses, opportunity assessments, and other decision-support tools to evaluate potential commercial actions and risks.
• Partner with IT, data engineering, and business stakeholders to define data requirements, improve data quality, and develop scalable reporting and analytics solutions.
• Create, enhance, and maintain Power BI dashboards, self-service reporting tools, and automated reporting processes.
• Establish clear metric definitions, data-validation practices, analytical documentation, and governance standards for recurring reporting and analytical products.
• Develop executive-ready PowerPoint presentations, dashboards, reports, and visualizations that communicate complex analyses in a clear, concise, and compelling way.
• Respond to ad hoc analytical questions by clarifying business needs, selecting appropriate data sources and methods, and delivering accurate, well-documented outputs.
• Collaborate with U.S. Marketing, Global Marketing, U.S. Market Access, U.S. Finance, Commercial Sales Operations, IT, market research, and other analytical teams to develop an integrated understanding of Kidney business performance.
• Communicate technical approaches, model outputs, assumptions, limitations, and business implications effectively to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
• Stay current on evolving data science, analytical, visualization, and commercial data capabilities and identify practical opportunities to improve analytical impact.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel modeling and data analysis.
• SQL for data querying, transformation, and analysis.
• Python for data manipulation, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, machine learning, and automation.
• SAS and/or other statistical programming languages.
• VBA.
• Power BI dashboard design, development, data modeling, and maintenance.
• Advanced statistical analysis, including regression, hypothesis testing, time-series analysis, and multivariate analysis.
• Predictive analytics and machine-learning techniques, such as classification, clustering, segmentation, and model validation.
• Data wrangling, data integration, feature engineering, and data-quality assessment.
• Data visualization and executive-level analytical storytelling.
• Analysis of large, complex pharmaceutical commercial and healthcare data sets.
• Experience using pharmaceutical data sources, including:IQVIA or comparable third-party data-vendor dataPatient claims and longitudinal patient dataPrescription, distribution, and sales dataInternal sales, marketing, and CRM/field-call data
• Microsoft PowerPoint for executive-ready reporting and communication.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience supporting kidney disease, nephrology, rare disease, or specialty-care commercial businesses.
• Experience