Pain Analytics and Insights Project Manager (Contract)

Vertex Pharmaceuticals LLC; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertex Pharmaceuticals LLC is seeking a Project Manager to support the Pain Insights & Analytics team. You will lead cross-functional initiatives across omnichannel analytics, brand analytics, forecasting, and market insights, ensuring milestones and deliverables are achieved.

The role requires organizing workstreams with analytics leads and business owners, developing detailed project plans, and maintaining effective communication to keep initiatives on track in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Life Sciences, Analytics, Public Health, Marketing, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in project management, business operations, analytics, insights, or a related function
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage several initiatives simultaneously
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to coordinate across teams and drive progress in a matrixed environment
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain structure across evolving priorities
• Ability to work effectively with both technical and business stakeholders
• Experience supporting strategic planning, analytics, insights, or commercial operations workstreams

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate cross-functional initiatives for the Pain Insights & Analytics team
• Partner with the analytics lead and workstream business owners to define project goals, scope, timelines, milestones, and deliverables
• Create and maintain detailed project plans, status updates, meeting cadences, and action trackers
• Ensure alignment across omnichannel analytics, brand analytics, forecasting, and market insights stakeholders
• Identify risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks, and proactively elevate or resolve issues as needed
• Facilitate effective communication among cross-functional partners to keep projects on track
• Support planning, prioritization, and coordination of multiple concurrent initiatives
• Track progress against deliverables and help ensure timelines and business objectives are met
• Prepare clear and concise project updates for team members and leadership
• Promote project management best practices and help establish consistent ways of working across initiatives

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Matrixed environment navigation

Attention to detail

Stakeholder management

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Life Sciences, Analytics, Public Health, Marketing, or related field

Tools

Smartsheet

Asana

Jira

Monday.com

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Teams

SharePoint

Job description

Job Description Vertex is seeking a Project Manager to support the Pain Insights & Analytics team. This team spans omnichannel analytics, brand analytics, forecasting, and market insights/market research, and plays a critical role in enabling data-driven decision-making across the business. In this role, the Project Manager will lead and coordinate multiple cross-functional initiatives that require strong organization, structure, and follow-through to be successful. This individual will work closely with the analytics leads and business owners to help drive workstreams forward, maintain alignment across stakeholders, and ensure key milestones and deliverables are achieved. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly organized, collaborative project manager who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys supporting strategic analytics and insights initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate cross-functional initiatives for the Pain Insights & Analytics team
• Partner with the analytics lead and workstream business owners to define project goals, scope, timelines, milestones, and deliverables
• Create and maintain detailed project plans, status updates, meeting cadences, and action trackers
• Ensure alignment across omnichannel analytics, brand analytics, forecasting, and market insights stakeholders
• Identify risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks, and proactively elevate or resolve issues as needed
• Facilitate effective communication among cross-functional partners to keep projects on track
• Support planning, prioritization, and coordination of multiple concurrent initiatives
• Track progress against deliverables and help ensure timelines and business objectives are met
• Prepare clear and concise project updates for team members and leadership
• Promote project management best practices and help establish consistent ways of working across initiatives

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Life Sciences, Analytics, Public Health, Marketing, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in project management, business operations, analytics, insights, consulting, or a related function
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage several initiatives simultaneously
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to coordinate across teams and drive progress in a matrixed environment
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain structure across evolving priorities
• Ability to work effectively with both technical and business stakeholders
• Experience supporting strategic planning, analytics, insights, or commercial operations workstreams

Technical Skills Required

• Proficiency with project management tools such as Smartsheet, Asana, Jira, Monday.com, or Microsoft Project
• Strong skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams and SharePoint
• Familiarity with project tracking, milestone planning, and risk management practices
• Comfort working with analytics, reporting, and insights teams
• Ability to manage project documentation, status reporting, and stakeholder communications

Preferred Skills

• Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare industry
• Familiarity with forecasting, targeting, market research, and/or analytics capability development
• Exposure to commercial analytics, omnichannel analytics, or brand analytics
• Understanding of insights generation and analytics processes in a business setting
• Experience supporting large-scale market research initiatives or cross-functional capability builds
• PMP, Agile, or related project management certification
• Ability to influence without direct authority and build strong partnerships across teams

Contract Length: 6 months (strong potential to extend to 12 months)

Pay Range $80.00 – $85.00 / hour