Pain I&A Project Manager (Contract)

Vertex Pharmaceuticals; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertex Pharmaceuticals is seeking a Project Manager to support the Pain Insights & Analytics team, coordinating cross-functional initiatives in omnichannel analytics, brand analytics, forecasting, and market research.

The role requires strong organizational skills, collaboration, and the ability to drive alignment with analytics leads and business owners to meet milestones in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Life Sciences, Analytics, Public Health, Marketing, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in project management or analytics functions.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage cross-functional initiatives for Pain Insights & Analytics.
• Define goals, scope, timelines, milestones, and deliverables with stakeholders.
• Create detailed project plans, status updates, and action trackers.
• Ensure alignment across omnichannel analytics, forecasting, and market insights.
• Identify risks and dependencies, escalate issues as needed.
• Communicate progress to team and leadership.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Omnichannel analytics

Forecasting

Excel

PowerPoint

Jira

Asana

Smartsheet

Microsoft Project

Education

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

Tools

Smartsheet

Asana

Jira

Monday.com

Microsoft Project

Teams

SharePoint

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Job Description

Vertex is seeking aProject Managerto support thePain Insights & Analyticsteam. This team spansomnichannel 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 leadsand business owners to help drive workstreams forward,maintainalignment 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 andmaintaindetailed project plans, status updates, meeting cadences, and action trackers

• Ensure alignment across omnichannel analytics, brand analytics, forecasting, and market insights stakeholders

• Identifyrisks, dependencies, and bottlenecks, and proactively escalate 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 businessobjectivesare met

• Prepare clear and concise project updates for team members and leadership

• Promote project management best practices and helpestablishconsistent 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 tomaintainstructure 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

• Proficiencywith project management tools such asSmartsheet, Asana, Jira,Monday.com, or Microsoft Project

• Strong skills inMicrosoft Excel,PowerPoint, andWord

• Experience with collaboration tools such asMicrosoft TeamsandSharePoint

• 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 withforecasting,targeting,market research, and/oranalytics 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

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