Data, Technology & Engineering Project Manager

The Project Manager for DTE (Data, Technology & Engineering) Commercial is a role within the Project Management and Strategic Operations team reporting directly to the Director, Commercial and CPEAO Portfolio Manager.

The PM will have execution delivery responsibilities for the CPEAO (Chief Patient External Affairs Office) portfolio covering all 5 Medical and External Affairs Projects (Grants & Giving Automation, Publications Management Scaling, Content Transformation, Advanced Insights via AI, Launch Readiness for new DAs) that have several sub work streams or projects. The PM will be charged with hands‑on management of all project activities from initiation to launch, ensuring to drive project outcomes and accurate status reporting (from day to day to leadership levels) across all work streams.

They will work closely with the implementation delivery partners, software vendors and Vertex DTE and Business colleagues to ensure successful project delivery.

The Project Manager will ensure that the project is in alignment with other inter‑dependent projects, programs and stakeholders.

Contract through the end of 2026.

Remote role is available. (EST working hours)

• Create and track all project deliverables (including project charters, schedule, status and stage gates) and drive the project to completion and launch
• Manage, monitor, and report on the project execution including:
• Project schedule (tasks, owners, start/end dates, and dependencies) including all cross‑functional activities.
• Pro‑actively identify any resource issues within the project and mitigate risks and escalations
• Manage the RAID (Risk, Action, Issue, Decision) log; ensuring all decisions are accurately captured, actions are completed by their due date, and risks/issues are assessment, managed, and communicated appropriately. All cross‑functional items are to be managed in the RAID log
• Facilitate the management of JIRA in partnership with the implementation team using agile and/or waterfall task management
• Deliver a weekly project status report to project stakeholders in the agreed Vertex format and status the project across varying levels from day to day teams, business partners and leadership with appropriate levels of messaging and content

The Project Manager is required to have relevant PMO‑related experience specifically in the Life Science domain. This experience will be critical in understanding both the process challenges and the technology being implemented, which will help the Program Manager facilitate successful delivery outcomes. In addition, it is expected that the Project Manager has experience managing and deploying projects related to Commercial or Medical Technology systems or programs such as Med Info, Sci Max, Data Vision, AI Document Generation, AI Insights and Analytics, Master Data Management or similar.

The project manager will be expected to apply relevant life sciences technology expertise (Medical and Commercial) to this role including input into project scope, business process analysis, best practices, and system adoption.

Additional responsibilities beyond those listed above will be agreed upon between the project manager and DTE portfolio manager for Commercial and CPEAO.

In addition to a focus on Medical related projects, this project manager may support in Commercial technology projects also related to launch of new disease areas or analytics.

$100-$110/HR

This job posting is for a temporary role with a third‑party agency partner on assignment at Vertex Pharmaceuticals (“Vertex”). The individual selected for this role will be offered the role as an employee of a third‑party agency partner; compensation, medical benefits, fringe benefits and other terms and conditions of employment shall be presented by the third‑party agency partner upon offer. The pay rate range provided is a reasonable estimate of the anticipated compensation range for this job at the time of posting.

The actual pay rate will be based on a number of factors, including skills, competencies, experience, location and/or being pursued and other job‑related factors permitted by law. In addition,…