Director of Workforce Planning & AI-Driven Strategy

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity awards

Medical, dental and vision benefits

Generous paid time off

Commuting subsidy

Job summary

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated in Boston seeks a Workforce Planning Director to lead the enterprise planning cycle across long-range, annual budget, headcount forecasts, and workforce reporting. You will partner with Strategic Finance, People Analytics, HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, Strategic Sourcing, and Digital & Technology to align demand, supply, cost, and workforce mix.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled planning, automation, and decision support to improve speed, quality, and scalability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus advanced degree in industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology or a related field (organizational behavior, labor economics, applied statistics) strongly preferred.
• Typically requires 10 years of experience in workforce planning, people analytics, strategic finance, workforce strategy, or a related field, including responsibility for an enterprise planning process at scale or the equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead Vertex's enterprise workforce planning cycle, including the long range plan (LRP), annual budget, position management, and monthly and quarterly forecasts.
• Partner with Finance to develop planning assumptions, scenario models, affordability guardrails, and enterprise standards for executive decision-making.
• Partner with HRBPs and Functional Finance to deeply understand business context, pressure-test planning assumptions, and ensure workforce plans and process reflect what is happening in the business.
• Plan across all labor categories, including employees, contingent workers, vendor labor, and digital labor, with consistent definitions, cost treatment, and governance.
• Partner with Strategic Sourcing to align extended workforce planning with vendor strategy, contingent labor management, external capacity, and total cost of labor.
• Translate AI-enabled work redesign, productivity assumptions, and digital labor models into workforce plans, capacity models, and planning scenarios.
• Drive automation, standardization and continuous improvement of workforce planning processes and reporting incorporating AI where applicable.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition and HRBPs to connect workforce demand to hiring plans, recruiting capacity, pipeline priorities, internal mobility, build/buy/borrow decisions, and workforce risk management.
• Partner with People Analytics to build dashboards, reporting, and insights that give leaders a consistent view of workforce trends and planning choices.

Skills

Financial planning

Data analytics

Cross-functional partnership

AI in analysis

Workforce planning

Labor economics

Pharma/biotech experience

Education

Advanced degree in I/O psychology or related field

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated in Boston seeks a Workforce Planning Director to lead the enterprise planning cycle across long-range, annual budget, headcount forecasts, and workforce reporting. You will partner with Strategic Finance, People Analytics, HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, Strategic Sourcing, and Digital & Technology to align demand, supply, cost, and workforce mix.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled planning, automation, and decision support to improve speed, quality, and scalability.