Strategic Partner, Clinical & Early Development

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

Job summary

Vertex Pharmaceuticals is seeking a Business Engagement Lead in a hybrid capacity to partner with Clinical Development and Early Development teams. The role focuses on translating priorities into scalable digital solutions, shaping roadmaps, and ensuring regulatory and quality alignment across functions.

Strong relationship management, executive communication, and cross-functional leadership are essential. The Associate Director will guide capability roadmaps, collaborate with product,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in business engagement or IT/DTE partnering
• Experience supporting Clinical Development or Early Development functions
• Proven ability to translate business priorities into scalable systems
• Experience delivering AI business use cases to accelerate operations
• Experience in regulated biotech/pharma environments

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary DTE business engagement lead for Clinical Development and Early Development
• Partner with business leaders to understand priorities and capability needs
• Translate business needs into scalable systems, workflows, and digital solutions
• Shape and manage demand intake, prioritization, and roadmap planning
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, user experience, and operational effectiveness
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data, analytics, quality, security, and compliance teams to deliver aligned solutions
• Support business case development and system enhancement planning
• Ensure solutions align with regulatory, governance, validation, security, and quality expectations
• Drive stakeholder alignment, change management, adoption, and continuous improvement
• Communicate plans, risks, dependencies, and outcomes to senior leaders

Skills

Business engagement

Relationship management

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Tools

Metworx

Certara Phoenix

PK/PD data environments

Modeling tools

Job description

Vertex Pharmaceuticals is seeking a Business Engagement Lead in a hybrid capacity to partner with Clinical Development and Early Development teams. The role focuses on translating priorities into scalable digital solutions, shaping roadmaps, and ensuring regulatory and quality alignment across functions.

Strong relationship management, executive communication, and cross-functional leadership are essential. The Associate Director will guide capability roadmaps, collaborate with product,