Vertex is seeking to improve the lives of patients through digital, data, and technology innovation by accelerating capabilities, technology, and data to augment its scientific mission and enable growth in scale, ensuring it remains on the forefront of science, medicine, and technology.
Requirements
- Experience in automation technology, ideally with AI and agentic experience, ideally within supply chain domains.
- Experience in successfully developing and implementing technology strategy, preferably within a complex organization.
- Experience with enabling advanced technologies, such as AI and machine learning, through data engineering strategies is highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of the biotech regulatory environment.
- Experience with data flows across experiment capture through to analytical insight.
- Knowledge of digital supply chain planning, forecasting and execution.
- Experience with strategic integrations across internal and external systems to enable real time data exchange.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of capacity and supply chain management systems to support the clinical and commercial supply of all Vertex medicines.
- Oversee the integration of capacity and supply chain management digital solutions that manage data flows across experiment capture through to analytical insight.
- Collaborate globally to accelerate operational efficiency in supply chain planning, forecasting and execution processes.
- Oversee Design and Implementation of strategic integrations across internal and external systems to enable real time data exchange.
- Monitor and implement fast moving AI technologies and regulatory trends to design and build system capabilities and maintain compliance with evolving global standards.
- Couple mastery of the marketplace of commercial products with innovation to where creative solutions can drive Vertex’s needs forward.
- Lead the development, implementation, and management of artificial intelligence (e.g. agentic) and automation technologies that build digital supply chain planning, forecasting and execution.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in a supply chain or logistics discipline, computer science, IT or relevant equivalent; Master’s degree preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in automation technology, ideally with AI and agentic experience, ideally within supply chain domains.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and initiatives that require collaboration across multiple functional areas.
- Willingness to travel up to 10% to support business objectives.
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to produce strategic documents, present ideas and solutions to technical and non-technical audiences, and all levels of the organization.
