Culture Director

Job Description

General Summary

Vertex is built on a strong sense of purpose deep scientific curiosity and a culture grounded in our values. We believe our culture is a critical enabler of our mission and an important reason people choose to joinand stay atVertex.

The Culture Director plays a key role in advancing how Vertexs values and culture are experienced across the organization. This role focuses on translating culture into clear practical expectations and scalable experiences that help employees and leaders understand what the Vertex culture looks like in action and how it supports the work we do every day on behalf of patients.

Partnering closely with senior culture leadership HR colleagues and business leaders the Culture Director helps design and deliver integrated culture work that is aligned to the needs of a growing global organization and nurtures a consistent authentic employee experience.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the evolution of enterprise culture priorities
  Partner with senior culture and HR leadership to advance a cohesive culture roadmap contributing to the design coordination and integration of culture work across Organization Development Talent and HR Business Partners.

• Advance integrated culture practices
  Lead and deliver work that brings together inclusive talent practices crosscultural capability building culture insights and enterprise listeningtranslating insight into practical guidance that leaders and teams can apply in their daytoday work.

• Translate values into clear practical expectations
  Help shape and deliver work that anchors employees in Vertexs values and culture by clarifying what those values look like in actioncreating shared language behaviors and norms that resonate across roles functions and geographies.

• Design and deliver scalable culture experiences
  Develop and support culture programming that reaches employees at key moments including onboarding leadership and manager development enterprise learning experiences and ongoing engagementensuring culture is nurtured consistently as Vertex continues to grow.

• Partner with leaders to activate culture locally
  Collaborate with leaders and HR partners to embed culture into how teams operate supporting leaders as they model expectations and support consistent experiences across the organization.

• Embed culture into talent and leadership systems
  Work across HR to integrate culture expectations into onboarding development pathways leadership forums and core talent processes so culture is experienced as part of how work gets donenot as a standalone initiative.

• Use insight to strengthen culture over time
  Leverage qualitative and quantitative inputssuch as listening efforts feedback and researchto inform priorities refine approaches and focus effort where it will have the greatest impact.

• Collaborate on culture storytelling and communications
  Partner with HR and Communications to ensure a consistent authentic narrative about Vertex culture aligned to employee experiences and cultivated through programs tools and leader messaging.

Knowledge and Skills

• Expertise in organizational culture organizational development employee experience or related fields.

• Strong ability to influence partner and deliver through collaboration in matrixed environments.

• Demonstrated skill translating complex ideas into clear practical guidance and experiences.

• Experience designing and scaling programs across diverse roles geographies and stages of growth.

• Excellent facilitation synthesis and stakeholder management skills.

• Comfort working in ambiguity and adapting approaches as organizational needs evolve.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree required; advanced degree in Organizational Development Human Resources Psychology or a related field preferred.

• Typically requires 10 years of relevant experience in culture organizational development employee experience talent management and/or related enterpriselevel work.

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Company Information

Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.

Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination 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 E-Verify 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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