Director, Global Pricing Analytics

Role Summary

The Director, Global Pricing Analytics will support the creation of a Global Pricing Analytics capability within Vertex, building a Center of Excellence to assess pricing strategies, measure performance, and deliver actionable insights across regions and portfolio. Reports to the Sr. Director, Global Pricing Analytics.

Responsibilities

• Support development of a Global Pricing Analytics capability to sustain value optimization for the Vertex portfolio
• Assess the current Global pricing data infrastructure and provide recommendations for future requirements
• Develop a set of Global Pricing Analytics deliverables to guide decision-making and performance assessments across Vertex disease areas and Regions
• Build a Global Pricing Analytics reporting infrastructure that integrates multiple data sources and automates insight delivery, including realized prices
• Serve as the Global Value & Access Strategy subject matter expert on Advanced Analytics, including appropriate integration of Artificial Intelligence
• Oversee operations for Global Price Governance including continual updating of guidance documents to audit standards, templates and Regional training
• Jointly own Global Price Policies with GVAS Disease Area leads, and manage the annual review process for Global price floors
• Develop disease specific performance analytics analyzing negotiation outcomes and achievement of business results relative to pre-deal analysis
• Provide strategic guidance for pricing capability development including lifecycle pricing, contracting strategies, launch sequencing and risk assessment in close cooperation with relevant stakeholders
• Partner with key stakeholders, including US and International Market Access, Global Value & Access Strategy, Global Commercial Strategy, Finance, and DTE to support the development of key Global Pricing Analytics deliverables

Qualifications

• Deep working knowledge of both US and ex-US healthcare systems required
• Working knowledge of US and/or ex-US pricing environment is required
• Entrepreneurial, energetic, dynamic, enthusiastic, decisive, and self-motivated; possesses a sense of urgency with the ability and strong desire to "make things happen"
• Strong practical, quantitative and analytical skills combined with a sound understanding of how to successfully apply pricing & reimbursement principles to support Vertex
• Excellent working knowledge of the Market Access data sets including MMIT, IQVIA, Pricing / GTN (Model-N), and Real-World Data (DRG, Market Scan, etc.).
• Experience creating and/or supporting complex analytics and working closely with data scientists and engineers
• Strong proficiency in Tableau and/or Power BI, along with working knowledge of data lake platforms such as Snowflake is a plus.
• General experience in commercialization and drug development
• Exhibits outstanding written and oral communication skills, including the ability to effectively write and deliver presentations to professionals at all levels within Vertex
• Demonstrated relationship building at all levels of the organization and across geographies
• Recognized as a team player with excellent interpersonal skills who is flexible and reliable
• Displays sound ethics and a fit for Vertex’s core values

Education

• Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline
• 8+ years of direct biotechnology / pharmaceutical industry experience
• Experience building an analytics platform, including data integration and visualization using tools such as Tableau and/or PowerBI