Strategic Partner, Clinical & Early Development

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated is seeking a Business Engagement Lead to partner across Clinical Development and Early Development. You will translate priorities into scalable digital solutions, shaping capability roadmaps and managing demand across functions.

You will work with leadership to drive compliant, efficient and innovative processes in a regulated biotech environment. The role requires extensive relationship management, business acumen, and experience delivering AI-enabled

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in life sciences, business, information systems, or engineering.
• MBA/MS preferred for advanced roles.
• Experience in Clinical Development or Early Development within biotech/pharma is expected.
• Experience delivering AI business use cases to improve operations and timelines.
• Experience designing or supporting scalable systems and processes for development teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary DTE business engagement lead for Clinical Development and Early Development.
• Partner with business leaders to understand priorities, challenges, and capability needs.
• Translate business needs into scalable systems, workflows, and digital solutions.
• Shape demand intake, prioritization, and roadmap planning across supported functions.
• Identify opportunities to improve business processes and user experience.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data, analytics, quality, security and compliance teams.
• Support business case development, process improvements, and system enhancements.
• Ensure solutions align with regulatory and governance expectations.
• Drive change management, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate plans and risks to senior leaders and stakeholders.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive presentation

AI use case development

Regulatory compliance

Relationship management

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree, MBA, or MS in life sciences, business, information systems, engineering, or related field

Tools

Metworx

Certara Phoenix

PK/PD data environments

Modeling & simulation tools

Job description

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated is seeking a Business Engagement Lead to partner across Clinical Development and Early Development. You will translate priorities into scalable digital solutions, shaping capability roadmaps and managing demand across functions.

You will work with leadership to drive compliant, efficient and innovative processes in a regulated biotech environment. The role requires extensive relationship management, business acumen, and experience delivering AI-enabled