Vertex Fall 2025 Co-op Operational Excellence Vertex Manufacturing Center Boston MA
Vertex Fall 2025 Co-op Operational Excellence Vertex Manufacturing Center Boston MA
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Job Description
The Vertex Coop Program offers students the opportunity to learn about the pharmaceutical industry from a handson perspective. You will be working closely with and learning from some of the brightest people in the industry. When you join our coop program you should not be surprised to see that our environment is one that is innovative and team oriented where collaboration is not just a word and we are relentless is in everything we do. Students can expect to be challenged by their project plan connect with other coopsand feel valued by the Vertex community. Not only will coops learn about their daytoday tasks through their specific work assignments but they will interact and have exposure to our organizational leaders and their teams.
Job Summary:
Help us design the future of how science gets done.
Join Vertex Pharmaceuticals Operational Excellence team at our internal manufacturing site in Boston where youll play a handson role in creating a digital experience that improves how our development teams collaborate access data and drive therapies from bench to clinic. Youll partner with experts across formulation development analytical development and manufacturing to build a userfriendly internal landing page that supports faster clearer and more connected decisionmaking.
This role is ideal for a datasavvy student with an interest in UX/UI design digital product development and realworld impact in the life sciences.
Key Responsibilities:
This role will support the UX/UI design and development of a landing page for our internal Customers which will serve as a hub to streamline communication coordination and exchange of information. The landing page will be built on a custom graph database platform already in place and in use.
DaytoDay Duties:
- Build a userfriendly information hub using our graph database platform. Youll work with platform developers to solve technical issues and learn how to best use the system.
- Work with our VMC Operational Excellence team members to translate Voice of the Scientist input into useful knowledge hub features that help Scientists and Manufacturing personnel do their jobs better.
- Work with another coop student who focuses on how data is organized and managed to ensure everything connects properly behind the scenes.
- Test what you built with actual users to make sure its easy to use and make improvements based on their feedback.
- Write easytofollow guides and help documentation for users plus a manual for future team members who will maintain the site.
Why this Role is Exciting:
- Youll create a real functional digital product used by Vertex scientists and engineers.
- Youll bridge the gap between humancentered design and complex scientific and manufacturing data.
- Youll learn how crossfunctional teams come together to make cuttingedge therapies possible.
- Youll walk away with tangible portfolio pieces and a deeper understanding of how digital transformation happens in biopharmaceutical sciences.
Qualifications:
Education & Experience:
- Currently pursuing a bachelors or masters degree in one of the following fields:
- Data Science
- Human Factors Engineering
- User Experience (UX) Design
- Computer Science or Information Systems
- Bioinformatics or Biomedical Engineering (with demonstrated UX or data visualization experience)
Technical Skills:
- Strong familiarity with graph data models or knowledge graphs (e.g. Neo4j RDFbased systems) or a demonstrated interest and willingness to learn quickly
- Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Power BI Tableau or Excel dashboards.
- Experience with programming for data analysis (e.g. Python SQL R).
- Understanding of humancentered design principles and best practices for intuitive navigation and visual hierarchy.
- Ability to take highlevel requirements and translate them into actionable design and functionality.
- Exposure to semantic ontologies (e.g. NIIMBL) preferred.
- Familiarity with HTML/CSS/JavaScript or lowcode platforms for rapid prototyping preferred.
Communication & Collaboration:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a teamoriented environment.
Initiative & Learning Agility:
- Willingness to learn new tools and methodologies.
- Curiosity and problemsolving mindset. Comfortable asking clarifying questions proposing design options and troubleshooting ambiguities.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States now and in the future. Please note that Vertex does not provide sponsorship for internships or entry level roles within this part of the organization.
- Candidate must be enrolled in an advanced degree program if graduating before July 2025
- Candidate must be available to work fulltime 40 hours per week from July December 2025
Program Dates: July December 2025 Full Time
Pay Range 20.00 35.00 USD/hour
This job posting is for a temporary role with a thirdparty agency partner that provides services to Vertex. The individual selected for this role will be offered the role as an employee of that thirdparty agency; compensation medical benefits fringe benefits and other terms and conditions of employment shall be presented by the thirdparty agency upon offer. The range provided is a reasonable estimate for the pay range for this job at the time of posting. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay in accordance with federal and state requirements. The actual pay rate will be based on a number of factors including skills competencies experience and other jobrelated factors permitted by law.
Pay Range:
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The range provided is based on what we believe is a reasonable estimate for the base salary pay range for this job at the time of posting. This role is eligible for an annual bonus and annual equity awards. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay in accordance with federal and state requirements. Actual base salary pay will be based on a number of factors including skills competencies experience and other jobrelated factors permitted by law.
At Vertex our Total Rewards offerings also include inclusive marketleading 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. From medical dental and vision benefits to generous paid time off (including a weeklong company shutdown in the Summer and the Winter) educational assistance programs including student loan repayment a generous commuting subsidy matching charitable donations 401(k) and so much more.
Company Information
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.
Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and nondiscrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a persons race color sex gender identity or expression age religion national origin ancestry ethnicity disability veteran status genetic information sexual orientation marital status or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an EVerify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities in accordance with applicable law.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
