Training Operations, Associate Director (Hybrid)

Job Description

General Summary:

The Medical Operations Associate Director provides project management leadership to crossfunctional medical affairs teams and manages the strategic planning and tactical execution of medical affairs projects including medical plans across clinical stage and/or marketed programs. Collaborates with key stakeholders across multiple functions within medical affairs (including global and regional medical directors global medical information medical communications) and to develop role and disease area training plans across Medical Affairs. This role is expected to apply project management knowledge and experience in the development initiation planning execution maintenance and closing of projects as well as other departmental initiatives.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan and facilitate meetings to ensure projects and plans move forward and milestones are achieved.
• Leads the development of and tracks highquality complex medical projects and ensures alignment between overall program strategy and crossfunctional plans
• Conducts project status briefings and develops relevant supporting communications and analyses such as dashboards progress to plan resource allocation/level of effort etc.; proactively identify issues/delays and organizes project team efforts to recalibrate to plan
• Tracks and oversees a complex portfolio of medical plan projects and works to ensure synergies across projects/programs
• Leads risk mitigation planning highlighting risks timeline delays and other issues and identifying project contingencies.
• Effectively communicates to meet the needs of key stakeholders across teams and utilizes appropriate methods to deliver relevant and clear content and information
• Develops and monitors program budgets and performs needed interventions on unexpected run rates scope expansion etc. and may negotiate changes to budget allocation.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability to think strategically and effectively assess plan and prepare recommendations regarding team objectives
• Specialized and indepth drug development knowledge with good understanding of other related disciplines
• Highly developed interpersonal skills with experience leading crossfunctional teams in a matrix environment preferred; skilled at explaining highly technical complex or sensitive information and influencing others to take action often persuading them to adopt a different point of view
• Flexible and able to work independently to manage work prioritiesand follow tasks through to completion including navigating and removing critical roadblocks
• Ability to work in a fastpaced innovative environment while remaining flexible proactive resourceful and efficient.
• Substantial ability to communicate complex issues in a simple way and to orchestrate plans to resolve issues and mitigate risks
• Resultsdriven with excellent problemsolving skills and the ability to apply sophisticated analytical thought to identify dynamic or novel solutions. Serves as technical resource for escalated complex problems.
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree required
• Typically requires 8 years of experience working in a project management role in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry or the equivalent combination of advanced education and experience

Pay Range:

Disclosure Statement:

Flex Designation:

Flex Eligibility Status:

In this RemoteEligible role you can choose to be designated as:
1. Remote: work remotely five days per week and come into the office on occasion youre always welcome onsite; or select
2. Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week; or select
3. OnSite: work five days per week onsite with ad hoc flexibility.

Note: The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertexs Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.

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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