Director, Value Realization Finance & Governance

Vertex Pharmaceuticals; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 276,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertex Pharmaceuticals seeks a Senior Director / Director to lead the Value Realization Office process for transformational initiatives across the project lifecycle. You will partner with project owners, Finance, and DTE to define value, establish baselines, and monitor realized value against objectives.

This role focuses on building disciplined value delivery, assessing risks, and driving consistent measurement across financial and operational domains, with broad cross-functional exposure and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field.
• Significant experience in finance, strategic planning, transformation, program leadership, PMO leadership, reporting, or related business functions.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and business partners.
• Demonstrated strength in budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial modeling, reporting, variance analysis, or executive decision support.
• Experience building governance structures, reporting cadence, accountability models, and measurable business outcomes for complex initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of performance measurement, success metrics, baseline methodology, and variance review.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of the Value Realization Framework for in-scope, material, and transformational initiatives.
• Partner with project owners and key stakeholders to define success metrics, baseline methodology, and reporting approaches that support clear and credible value measurement.
• Facilitate VRO intake and kickoff activities, reviewing initiative materials such as current state, target state, cost to achieve, ownership, dependencies, and expected outcomes.
• Provide thoughtful challenge and guidance on proposed metrics, measurement methods, and baseline assumptions to strengthen consistency and decision-making.
• Confirm sign-off criteria for success metrics, target or baseline values, reporting cadence, measurability confidence, and accountability before initiatives move into ongoing monitoring.
• Establish and maintain a structured governance and reporting cadence, including regular review of initiative scorecards and reporting packages.
• Review realized value against agreed metrics, baseline, and budget inputs to assess progress and determine whether expected outcomes are being achieved.
• Evaluate measurability confidence for each metric and ensure assumptions, confidence levels, and Finance validation are documented where applicable.
• Escalate material risks, unresolved gaps, and value delivery variances, and support corrective action, re-baselining, closeout, or extension decisions as needed.
• Drive adoption of consistent value measurement practices across financial, operational, risk/compliance, decision support, and workforce-related outcomes.

Job description

Vertex Pharmaceuticals seeks a Senior Director / Director to lead the Value Realization Office process for transformational initiatives across the project lifecycle. You will partner with project owners, Finance, and DTE to define value, establish baselines, and monitor realized value against objectives.

This role focuses on building disciplined value delivery, assessing risks, and driving consistent measurement across financial and operational domains, with broad cross-functional exposure and