Business Analytics & Insights Associate Director (Commercial Manufacturing and Supply Chain)

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biotechnology company in Boston seeks a highly qualified Associate Director for Business Analytics and Reporting within its Manufacturing & Supply Chain division. The role focuses on analytical solutions to support data-driven decisions and requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure effective implementation of business needs and technical requirements.

Benefits

Generous paid time off

Educational assistance programs

401(k) matching

Flexible work options

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Pharma experience in a Manufacturing or Supply Chain setting.
• Experience translating business needs into technical requirements for dashboards.
• Strong multitasking ability and project management skills in a matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships and articulate both business and technical needs.
• Gather and maintain analytics needs with stakeholders across CMSC.
• Organize project communications, including documentation and reporting.

Skills

Data Integrity

Analytics Solutions

Business Analysis

Communication

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

PowerBI

Snowflake

Collibra

Job description

Job Description

This Commercial Manufacturing and Supply Chain (CMSC)Business Analytics and Reporting (BAR) Associate Director will be responsible for acting as a business analyst for leading and driving complex cross-functionaloperational analytics solutions for the Manufacturing & Supply Chain organization to drive data-driven decision making.The position will act as a bridge between the CMSC business functions and IT enablement functions to capture CMSC cross-functional operational business needs and ensure that they are translated to use cases and technical requirements. Business functions include various groups in CMSC - Supply Chain, External Manufacturing, Technical Operations, QC - as well as functions outside CMSC like Quality, Commercial & Clinical within the Vertex Small Moleculeprogram teams. Additionally, the position will engage with key enablement partners in DTE (Data, Technology & Engineering) & DSS (Data Strategy & Solutions) to ensure that the digital capabilities of CMSC are progressing and maturing with the organization.

In this business analyst role, the use, creation(as needed) and maintenance of standards to accurately gather requirements from the business for metrics, KPIs and analytics/visuals is key. The ability to build meaningful relationships with key business stakeholders and understand true business need is pivotal to the success of the role and the function.This role will work closely with Supply Chain and Manufacturing stakeholders to understand what data and analytics are needed to run, monitor and analyze the performance of the CMSC business. Knowledge of drug development through commercialization and lifecycle management is crucial for the role as well as knowledge and/or experience working with manufacturing and/or supply chain functions

An understanding of analytics solutions andsubsequent data models, reports and dashboards in BI Analytics tools to deliver insights based on expressed business needs will be needed in the role. Understanding what's possible to technically deliver is as important and capturing what needs to be delivered, and a working knowledge of data models and reporting tool capabilities plays into that skillset. Data governance and a focus on data integrity will be crucial to the success of the role through participation indata governance forums for data quality and high integrity of source system data. Whilecapturing needs forreports and dashboards for cross-functional teams will be part of the role, equally as important will be working with the business to make sure there's a roll-out plan for ensuring adoption of reports and dashboards - all with the end-goal toensure that CMSC continues to be a data-driven organization.This is an exciting and visible role for a highly qualified, motivated, and organized individual in this relatively new operational business analytics function in CMSC.

This is a Boston based, hybrid (3 days/week onsite) position.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build relationships with key business stakeholders & enablement partners - be able to speak to both business and technical needs

• Organize and maintain analytics needs across the CMSC portfolio with key business stakeholders, including intended uses and forums where analytics will be utilized and how they should be delivered

• Work with technical teams to translate business needs to use cases, personas, and technical requirements to create, update, or adapt data models to include necessary data, metrics, and KPIs in analytics and dashboards

• Drive and maintain documentation standards to gather, document and deliver on requirements - both for source data as well as visualization needs for business stakeholders(e.g. data dictionary, report/dashboard catalogue)

• Organize and maintainanalytics project communications including meeting agendas, minutes, decision logs, tasks lists, and risk analyses/mitigation strategies using preferred technologies - effectively communicate progress, risks and mitigations

• Focus on data integrity, data quality and data governance - be a part of the culture of data governance with data, system, and dashboard owners

QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of Pharma experience in Manufacturing or Supply Chain setting

• Bachelor's degree ina quantitative field including, but not limited tostatistics, engineering,math, data analytics,computer science, life sciences or a related field.

• Experience with Supply Chain systems/technologies (e.g. Rapid Response, OPM, OTM, COI/COC etc) and/or Manufacturing Process Automation systems/technologies (e.g. LIMS, MES, TIBCO, Electronic & Paper Batch Records)

• Experience translating business needs into technical requirements for visualizations and dashboards - includes experience rolling out dashboards as well as dashboard adoption/uptake

• Working knowledge ofanalytics implementations and technologies - including relational database structures, data wrangling,and BI analytical/data visualization tools- especially PowerBI, Snowflake, and Collibra

• Proven ability to successfully multitask effectively, balance competing priorities, and deliver meaningful and accurate results without supervision - including an ability to combine attention to detail with a big-picture perspective.

• Experience managing projects independently in a highly matrixed organization with cross-functional stakeholders

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation and facilitation skills, to effectively inform key updates & issues - including ability to adapt messaging depending on level of level of the organization from working teams through senior leadership

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Pay Range:

$162,400 - $243,600

Disclosure Statement:

The range provided is based on what we believe is a reasonable estimate for the base salary pay range for this job at the time of posting. This role is eligible for an annual bonus and annual equity awards. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay, in accordance with federal and state requirements. Actual base salary pay will be based on a number of factors, including skills, competencies, experience, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

At Vertex, our Total Rewards offerings also include inclusive market-leading benefits to meet our employees wherever they are in their career, financial, family and wellbeing journey while providing flexibility and resources to support their growth and aspirations. From medical, dental and vision benefits to generous paid time off (including a week-long company shutdown in the Summer and the Winter), educational assistance programs including student loan repayment, a generous commuting subsidy, matching charitable donations, 401(k) and so much more.

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.

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