Director of Digital Transformation and Innovation

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 186.000 - 280.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated seeks a Director of Innovation and Business Transformation to lead technology-enabled transformation programs across Medical Writing Science, aligning business needs with AI, analytics, and digital solutions. The role requires strong governance, risk assessment, and change-management capabilities in a highly regulated setting.

You will orchestrate complex initiatives, manage dependencies, and drive adoption through established transformation lifecycles while

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, computer science, engineering, or equivalent discipline required; advance degree preferred.
• 10 years of progressive experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, technology-enabled transformation, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3 years of leadership experience building, leading, and developing teams and/or transformation capabilities in complex matrixed organizations.

Aufgaben

• Translate MWS transformation priorities into a coordinated slate of executable initiatives with clear outcomes, sequencing, resource requirements, decision pathways, and success measures.
• Direct the execution of complex and interconnected technology-enabled transformation initiatives across clinical regulatory document development, scientific and medical publications, knowledge management, data utilization, and related scientific workflows.
• Partner with MWS subject matter experts to integrate business needs, redesign workflows, establish future-state processes, and translate requirements for digital, AI, machine learning, analytics, automation, and emerging technology solutions.
• Oversee progression of initiatives through the established transformation lifecycle, ensuring appropriate rigor in analysis, experimentation, implementation, adoption, and transition to sustained operations.
• Ensure consistent application of established governance and responsible AI requirements across initiatives, including risk assessment, human oversight, documentation, and accountability.
• Identify and manage cross-initiative dependencies, execution risks, resource constraints, and trade-offs; resolve delivery challenges.
• Lead organizational readiness, change, and adoption activities to embed new capabilities into business processes, roles, standards, training, and ways of working.
• Monitor performance across transformation initiatives, address barriers to adoption and value realization, and provide execution insights to inform future priorities.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and guidance to cross-functional project teams, strengthening execution, collaboration, decision-making, and transformation capabilities.

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in life sciences, computer science, engineering, or equivalent discipline

10 years of progressive experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, technology-enabled transformation, or a related field

3 years of leadership experience building, leading, and developing teams and/or transformation capabilities in complex matrixed organizations

Jobbeschreibung

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated seeks a Director of Innovation and Business Transformation to lead technology-enabled transformation programs across Medical Writing Science, aligning business needs with AI, analytics, and digital solutions. The role requires strong governance, risk assessment, and change-management capabilities in a highly regulated setting.

You will orchestrate complex initiatives, manage dependencies, and drive adoption through established transformation lifecycles while