Vertex Pharmaceuticals · 9 hours ago
Senior Director, Digitization Strategy Center of Excellence
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation. The Senior Director, Digitization Strategy Center of Excellence is responsible for driving transformation initiatives to enhance clinical trial operations and enable data-driven decision-making across Global Clinical Operations.
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Responsibilities
Lead the strategy, design, digitization, implementation, and continuous improvement of global clinical operations end to end processes to identify opportunities to drive value (e.g. increased efficiencies, reduction of manual work effort, trial cost optimization)
Design and lead high-impact strategic transformation initiatives and priorities, with a focus on enabling business impact through well-designed change management and process re-design
Partner with GCO program teams and GMDA teams to define innovations to support disease strategies and capabilities across Vertex disease areas (e.g. AI-enabled patient finding, trial site identification, predictive modeling)
Option - Take charge of the Advanced Analytics capabilities, building a strong team over time, to enable real-time insights through AI-driven models, self-service analytics, and predictive intelligence to drive trial operational excellence
Develop and partner to execute on multi-year roadmap for GCO, including evaluating, implementing and optimizing strategic clinical trial solutions/tools to enhance automation, enable data driven decision-making and create simplified and orchestrated user experiences
Collaborate across the GCO team to develop value delivery plans, goals, and metrics linked to business objectives including articulating relevant value for transformation initiatives (e.g. time savings, cost, NPV)
Leverage external insights from digital health, AI, and professional networks to inform capability-building, solution prioritization, and future-ready operations
Identify repeatable transformation capabilities to drive business process simplification and enhance productivity to achieve cost efficiencies across trial lifecycle
Partner with trial vendors and internal team members to test and validate new transformative solutions, ensuring change management and process transformation is in place to drive impact
Drive AI-enabled process simplification initiatives to achieve efficiencies across GCO
Define success metrics and track ROI for transformation initiatives, demonstrating tangible business value including speed, quality, and cost
Option - Lead change management efforts to embed AI-enhanced data & analytics capabilities into strategic decision-making, ensuring agility and scalability
Build training and enablement programs to upskill teams and foster confidence in AI-driven processes
Serve as a trusted advisor to GCOLT and GMDA Leaders, articulating the business case for transformation initiatives
Communicate progress, impact, and lessons learned across the organization to maintain transparency and momentum
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in Clinical Operations roles
10+ years of experience in driving analytics, AI, and technology initiatives
Demonstrated expertise in change management methodologies and organizational transformation
Proven ability to translate innovation strategies into operational execution and business impact
Expertise in developing disease specific data strategies
Proven track record of implementing advanced technologies to enhance and optimize clinical operations teams
Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Benefits
Inclusive market-leading benefits to meet our employees wherever they are in their career, financial, family and wellbeing journey while providing flexibility and resources to support their growth and aspirations.
Medical, dental and vision benefits
Generous paid time off (including a week-long company shutdown in the Summer and the Winter)
Educational assistance programs including student loan repayment
A generous commuting subsidy
Matching charitable donations
401(k)
Company
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is focused on the discovery and development of small molecule drugs for the treatment of serious diseases.
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$657.31MKey Investors
Janssen Belgium
2024-07-10Post Ipo Secondary· $1.11M
2022-05-17Post Ipo Equity· $50M
2009-12-03Post Ipo Equity· $443M
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