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.

Positions Available
  • 3 days ago

    Executive Medical Director, Global Medical Lead - HEME

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:Vertex seeks a dynamic and experienced Medical Affairs physician executive to lead the new Disease Area of Hematology within the Global Medical Strategy group. This individual will be responsible for the development of Global Medical strategies for the first FDA approved CRISPR-cas9 medicine (Exa-Cel) for the treatment of Sickle Cell Disease and Infusion dependent B-Thalassemia, including the development of the life cycle management plan. The successful candidate ...

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  • 7 days ago

    Medical Affairs, Medical Director - T1D

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:The Medical Affairs Medical Director will provide medical leadership for T1D and will be responsible for developing the medical plan and its execution for T1D. This role will collaborate closely with cross-functional groups to ensure that medical strategies are aligned with broader corporate and key stakeholder needs as well as ensuring the voice of the patient and medical community is integrated into product strategies. Technical competencies and enterprise-level ...

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  • 14 days ago

    Clinical Development Medical Director (Heme)

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:Vertex Pharmaceuticals is searching for an experienced Medical Director to lead strategic and tactical activities for a broad range of ongoing clinical development activities within the Hematology clinical development team. You will work as part of multidisciplinary cross-functional teams on clinical development strategy, clinical trial data analysis and publications, clinical development related data generation activities, ongoing clinical trial execution, and ...

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  • 14 days ago

    Global Medical Director, Povetacicept

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:The Global Medical Affairs Strategy Medical Director will provide medical leadership for the Povetacicept programs. Povetacicept (pove) is an enhanced, dual BAFF/APRIL inhibitor in pivotal development for the treatment of IgA Nephropathy (IgAN), primary Membranous Nephropathy (pMN), and generalized Myasthenia Gravis (gMG) that has best-in-class and pipeline-in-a-product potential across a variety of autoimmune diseases. This role will be responsible for developing ...

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  • 14 days ago

    Medical Affairs Medical Director- Pain

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:The Medical Director, Medical Affairs Strategy will provide medical leadership for the US Pain team and will be responsible for developing the medical strategy and medical plan as well as executing against the medical plan for US Pain. This role will lead a team that will collaborate closely with cross-functional groups to ensure that scientific and medical strategies are aligned with broader corporate and key stakeholder needs as well as ensuring the voice of ...

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  • 14 days ago

    Executive Medical Director, Patient Safety (Hybrid)

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:The Executive Medical Director, Patient Safety/Head Medical Safety and Risk Management will oversee all safety and benefit-risk related activities of the GPS Physician (Disease-area Safety Heads, DST Chairs) and the Aggregate Report Risk Management (ARRM) Groups within the Vertex Global Patient Safety (GPS) Department. As a member of the GPS Senior Leadership Team, the role will contribute to ensuring consistency and compliance in the safety assessment, analysis ...

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  • 14 days ago

    Executive Medical Director, Early Development

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionThe Executive Medical Director, Early Development will be a strategically minded, hands-on early clinical development expert with the responsibility for overseeing the transition of projects from research into clinical development, and for developing strategy for early clinical development of novel therapies including application of biomarkers in Phase 1b/2a studies. Success depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, creativity, skill, diversity and teamwork focus of the ...

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  • 19 days ago

    Medical Affairs Senior Director - 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:Develops medical affairs plans, including Launch and Life Cycle Management ...

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  • 22 days ago

    Clinical Development Medical Director- Neurology

    Vertex Pharmaceuticals - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Job DescriptionGeneral Summary:The Clinical Development Medical Director will serve as the Medical Lead for Vertex clinical trials, working with cross-functional multidisciplinary study teams on clinical trial strategy, design and execution and serving as the Medical Monitor responsible for monitoring the safety of enrolled subjects on assigned trials. The incumbent will work on multiple trials in all Phases of clinical development, and may also participate in other selected projects in clinical ...

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