Duration: 6 months to start
Job Description:
We are relentless in our pursuit of transformative medicines to improve the lives of people with serious diseases. Building on a strong foundation of advancing therapies for cystic fibrosis, Vertex continues to expand its leadership across multiple disease areas, including cell and gene therapies, with the goal of delivering meaningful impact for patients worldwide.
Our Global Heme Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Operations team is at the forefront of innovation, commercial strategy, and operational excellence, driving the evolution of the global, cross-functional, "vein to vein” business process for CASGEVY, the only CRISPR-based autologous gene therapy approved for people living with Sickle Cell Disease and Transfusion dependent beta thalassemia.
Position Summary:
We are seeking an Associate Director, Heme CGT Business Systems to lead global system strategy for CASGEVY. This critical role will be responsible for owning the strategy, roadmap and execution of the order management system and key commercial tools and processes, essential to delivering a vein-to-vein, autologous product. As CASGEVY continues to scale across 9+ markets globally, the successful candidate will bring a strategic, analytical, and collaborative mindset, provide cross-functional leadership and drive alignment among international and US Heme Business Units, Manufacturing, Quality, and Technology teams involved in CASGEVY delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the product vision, roadmap, and prioritization for commercial capabilities supporting the Heme Franchise
- Partner with IT and regional stakeholders to translate business priorities into scalable tools, processes, and product enhancements
- Drive cross-functional alignment across global commercial teams, external manufacturing, quality, and other enabling functions to support business objectives, governance, and effective decision-making
- Work closely with Quality to ensure appropriate GxP processes, controls, and requirements are understood and adhered to across relevant systems, tools, and processes
- Lead change management efforts to support successful implementation, stakeholder engagement, and adoption of commercial capabilities across the organization
- Drive continuous improvement and ongoing optimization of commercial capabilities to enhance planning, execution, and operational effectiveness
Qualifications
- Demonstrated success working in cross-functional, matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders
- Strong ability to simplify high-level concepts into actionable insights and advise on digital maturity, digital transformation and system integrations to the site leadership team
- Analytical problem-solving and strategic planning abilities
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline
- Typically requires 8 years of work experience leading the delivery of customer facing digital programs to promote products and services to external customers, or the equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience in GxP regulated systems and related documentation, and GxP process and change management is highly preferred
- Business Systems Associate Director - owns global system strategy, product vision, roadmap and prioritization for commercial business systems supporting a product franchise, including order management and related commercial tools and processes for an autologous vein-to-vein product.
- Partners with IT and regional stakeholders to translate business priorities into scalable tools, processes and product enhancements.
- Drives cross-functional alignment across global commercial teams, external manufacturing, quality and enabling functions to support business objectives, governance and decision-making.
- Works with Quality to ensure GxP processes, controls and requirements are understood and adhered to across relevant systems, tools and processes.
- Leads change management for implementation, stakeholder engagement and adoption.
- Drives continuous improvement of commercial capabilities.
Required
Requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and typically 8 years of experience leading delivery of customer-facing digital programs, or the equivalent combination of education and experience; experience in GxP regulated systems and related documentation and change management preferred
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