Company Profile

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Company Overview

At Vertex, we bring together the brightest minds in the relentless pursuit of creating transformative medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. Founded in 1989 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, we are one of only a handful of biotechnology companies founded since 1976 that has discovered and developed four or more approved medicines in our own labs. In addition to the four medicines we’ve developed to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis, we have ongoing research programs focused on the underlying mechanisms of other serious diseases.

Our U.S. headquarters are in Boston’s Innovation District, our International headquarters are located in London, UK, and we have research and development (R&D) sites and commercial offices in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America. With more than two-thirds of our employees dedicated to research and development (R&D), we are consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top places to work, including nine consecutive years on Science magazine’s Top Employers list. For company updates and to learn more about us visit www.vrtx.com. You can also get to know us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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    Compliance Associate Director

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:The Compliance Associate Director assists in implementing and further enhancing the anti-corruption/anti-bribery Compliance program. Reporting to the Executive Director Head of Global Compliance Program Strategy, Assurance and Management, the Compliance Associate Director will be responsible for executing compliance-related investigations and supporting the company's global healthcare fraud and abuse assurance program and activities, including auditing and monitoring, ...

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    Associate Director, Computational Genomics

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionTo advance the development of transformative therapies for people with serious and life-threatening diseases, we are seeking an experienced computational biologist to lead the Boston-based computational genomics team, as part of the global Data and Computational Sciences organization. You and your team will focus on making biological discoveries by leveraging large-scale genomic and human genetic data to advance our drug discovery and development programs. As the leader of a ...

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    Senior Director, Global Medical Affairs - Nephrology

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:The Medical Affairs Senior Director provides medical and scientific leadership in the assigned Therapeutic Area(s) (TA). This role will work closely with a cross-functional group to ensure that scientific and medical strategies are aligned with broader corporate and key stakeholder needs and will ensure the flawless execution of Nephrology medical plans. Key Duties and Responsibilities:Main focus will be on Kidney programs in Medical Affairs. Supporting medical ...

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    Director, Drug Product Process Development - Biologics

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:Biologics, Cell and Gene Therapy is a rapidly growing part of Vertex Pharmaceuticals where research, development, and clinical manufacturing are highly integrated together at our new R&D site in Boston Seaport. Vertex is seeking a highly skilled technical leader to join our Process Development / Engineering team to lead the development and manufacturing of biologics drug products for our growing pipeline. The Vertex Process Development team offers a dynamic, ...

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    Director, Downstream Process Development - Biologics

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:Biologics, Cell and Gene Therapy is a rapidly growing part of Vertex Pharmaceuticals where research, development, and clinical manufacturing are highly integrated together at our new R&D site in Boston Seaport. Vertex is seeking a highly skilled technical leader to join our Process Development / Engineering team to lead the design, development, optimization, and scale-up of downstream processes to produce therapeutic biologics. This leadership role is critical ...

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    Process Development, Director - Upstream (Biologics)

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:Vertex is seeking a highly skilled technical leader to join our Process Development / Engineering team to lead the design, development, optimization, and scale-up of upstream processes to produce therapeutic biologics. This leadership role is critical in advancing our pipeline of innovative biologics from early development through to commercial readiness. The Vertex Process Development team offers a dynamic, fast-paced, and highly collaborative environment with ...

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    Policy & Alliance Development Director (Kidney)

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:The Policy & Alliance Development Director is responsible for building policy initiatives and strategic alliances in support of corporate objectives as well as objectives for Vertex's kidney disease business. This includes developing reimbursement policy strategies, supporting policy development aimed at securing access to therapies for patients (e.g., reducing the cost burden that patients encounter when accessing and maintaining certain patient protections) ...

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    Pricing & Market Access Associate Director (BE / NL)

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Haarlem, Netherlands

    Job DescriptionThe Pricing & Market Access Associate Director BE/NL will work in close collaboration and cross-functionally with our local commercial, medical, public affairs, and regulatory colleagues, in addition to our local Finance and HEOR teams, to help develop and execute market access strategies supporting optimal reimbursement for our high-value medicines portfolio. This role would need to represent Vertex Value of "Enterprise Thinking" as well as the Value of "Drive breakthrough Results". Key ...

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    Senior Director, Market Enablement

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:The Senior Director, Market Enablement will lead workstreams and pilots to drive the acceleration of our work to transform the status quo in the market to ensure appropriate patients have broad access & rapid physical availability to our products within the kidney portfolio. This individual will have an exceptional track record driving high degrees of cross functional collaboration and external stakeholder success to deliver for patients, demonstrated success ...

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    Senior Director, Exploratory Biology

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - San Diego, California, United States

    Job DescriptionThe Vertex Biology team in San Diego seeks a strategic and innovative scientific and people leader to help advance therapies for serious diseases. Based on-site at our cutting-edge San Diego research facility, this high-impact role will develop and implement strategies to identify novel therapeutic approaches for areas of significant unmet medical need, guiding projects from concept through proof of concept, while collaborating closely with global research teams. Vertex has ...

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