AI Transformation Operations Director
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
August 24, 2026
Remote friendly (Boston, MA)
United States
IT
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Governance planning: Maintain an integrated calendar of governance forums, decisions, milestones, and required inputs.
- Governance forum coordination: Coordinate transformation forums (agendas, materials, stakeholder input, decisions, follow-through).
- Decision preparation: Partner across strategy, Finance, workforce/innovation, data/engineering, governance teams, and functional leaders to assemble analysis for timely decisions.
- Decision follow-through: Convert decisions into actions, responsibilities, timelines, conditions; track commitments/open questions and progress to completion.
- Executive visibility & communications: Produce concise, decision-oriented updates for executives and stakeholders.
- Execution alignment: Ensure decisions, responsibilities, actions, and timelines are aligned across teams.
- Transformation Office coordination: Manage planning and follow-through to keep priorities connected to the broader portfolio.
- Scalable ways of working: Create/improve processes, tools, and templates for coordination and accountability.
- AI-enabled operations: Use AI/automation to streamline work and improve information quality/timeliness.
Knowledge & Skills
- Executive governance/decision-process expertise; cross-functional coordination.
- Ability to translate portfolio decisions into accountable execution.
- Strong executive writing/synthesis; organizational judgment; scalable process design.
- Relationship-building and influence without direct authority.
- Practical fluency with AI/automation; ability to manage concurrent governance activities.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree (business/operations/organizational management/communications or related) or relevant experience.
- Advanced degree preferred.
- Typically 10+ years in enterprise operations/transformation office/executive governance/strategic program coordination.
- Experience coordinating governance forums for enterprise transformations.
- Experience preparing executive decision materials and driving disciplined follow-through across functions.
- Governance planning: Maintain an integrated calendar of governance forums, decisions, milestones, and required inputs.
- Governance forum coordination: Coordinate transformation forums (agendas, materials, stakeholder input, decisions, follow-through).
- Decision preparation: Partner across strategy, Finance, workforce/innovation, data/engineering, governance teams, and functional leaders to assemble analysis for timely decisions.
- Decision follow-through: Convert decisions into actions, responsibilities, timelines, conditions; track commitments/open questions and progress to completion.
- Executive visibility & communications: Produce concise, decision-oriented updates for executives and stakeholders.
- Execution alignment: Ensure decisions, responsibilities, actions, and timelines are aligned across teams.
- Transformation Office coordination: Manage planning and follow-through to keep priorities connected to the broader portfolio.
- Scalable ways of working: Create/improve processes, tools, and templates for coordination and accountability.
- AI-enabled operations: Use AI/automation to streamline work and improve information quality/timeliness.
Knowledge & Skills
- Executive governance/decision-process expertise; cross-functional coordination.
- Ability to translate portfolio decisions into accountable execution.
- Strong executive writing/synthesis; organizational judgment; scalable process design.
- Relationship-building and influence without direct authority.
- Practical fluency with AI/automation; ability to manage concurrent governance activities.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree (business/operations/organizational management/communications or related) or relevant experience.
- Advanced degree preferred.
- Typically 10+ years in enterprise operations/transformation office/executive governance/strategic program coordination.
- Experience coordinating governance forums for enterprise transformations.
- Experience preparing executive decision materials and driving disciplined follow-through across functions.