Kidney Analytics Associate Director — Hybrid & Data Science

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work option

Annual bonus

Equity awards

Total Rewards benefits

Job summary

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated seeks a Director of Kidney Analytics to lead advanced analytics and data science for strategic US Kidney initiatives. You will develop scalable data products, models, dashboards, and reporting to enable data-driven decisions across the Kidney business.

The role requires strong commercial analytics, technical data science capabilities, and the ability to translate analyses into practical recommendations for senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Biostatistics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, Science, or another quantitative discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 7-10 years of experience in biotechnology or pharmaceuticals in a quantitative role; or at least 4 years of relevant post-MBA or PhD experience in management, strategic, analytics, or data science consulting with biotechnology/pharmaceutical decision-support experience.
• Demonstrated experience developing and applying advanced analytics, statistical models, predictive models, or ML approaches to complex commercial business questions.
• Experience working with large, complex, and disparate healthcare, patient, commercial, sales, and marketing datasets.
• Experience translating data science outputs into clear business insights, recommendations, and executive-level communications.
• Experience building and maintaining KPI reporting, dashboards, performance analytics, and self-service BI tools.
• Strong knowledge of data quality, validation, documentation, metric definition, and analytical governance practices.
• Proven ability to structure ambiguous problems and synthesize findings from multiple data sources.
• Experience partnering with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders in a matrixed biotech/pharma environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Forecasting and U.S. Kidney stakeholders to identify strategic questions and opportunities for analytics and data science solutions.
• Define analytical requirements, methodologies, and workplans for timely insights.
• Develop, validate, and maintain analytics models to identify drivers, barriers, risks, and trends.
• Apply statistical modeling, predictive analytics, ML, segmentation, classification, clustering, and other techniques to commercial questions.
• Develop models and tools to evaluate patient, provider, payer, market access, sales, and marketing dynamics in the U.S. Kidney business.
• Integrate data across sources to create scalable datasets and insights.
• Lead KPI tracking, reporting, and performance analytics at national, regional, and territory levels.
• Deliver evidence-based recommendations to support commercial decisions.
• Develop scenario analyses and decision-support tools for potential actions and risks.
• Collaborate with IT and data engineering to define data requirements and improve data quality.
• Create, enhance, and maintain Power BI dashboards and automated reporting processes.
• Establish metrics, data-validation, governance for recurring reporting and analytics products.
• Develop executive-ready presentations and storytelling of complex analyses.
• Respond to ad hoc questions with clear needs, sources, methods, and outputs.
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop an integrated understanding of Kidney business performance.
• Communicate technical approaches and outputs effectively to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Advanced Excel

SQL

Python

SAS

VBA

Power BI

Time-series analysis

Machine learning

Data wrangling

Data visualization

KPI reporting

Education

Master's degree in Data Science or quantitative discipline

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Excel

Job description

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated seeks a Director of Kidney Analytics to lead advanced analytics and data science for strategic US Kidney initiatives. You will develop scalable data products, models, dashboards, and reporting to enable data-driven decisions across the Kidney business.

The role requires strong commercial analytics, technical data science capabilities, and the ability to translate analyses into practical recommendations for senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners.