Director, Value Realization Finance
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
August 24, 2026
Remote friendly (Boston, MA)
United States
Corporate Functions
Senior Director / Director — Value Realization Office (VRO)
What You’ll Do
- Lead execution of the Value Realization Framework for in-scope, material, and transformational initiatives.
- Partner with project owners and stakeholders to define success metrics, baseline methodology, and reporting approaches for credible value measurement.
- Facilitate VRO intake and kickoff; review initiative materials (current/target state, cost to achieve, ownership, dependencies, expected outcomes).
- Challenge and guide proposed metrics, measurement methods, and baseline assumptions.
- Confirm sign-off criteria for success metrics, target/baseline values, reporting cadence, measurability confidence, and accountability before ongoing monitoring.
- Establish and maintain structured governance and reporting cadence; regularly review initiative scorecards and reporting packages.
- Review realized value vs. agreed metrics, baseline, and budget to determine progress toward outcomes.
- Evaluate measurability confidence; document assumptions, confidence levels, and Finance validation as applicable.
- Escalate material risks, unresolved gaps, and variances; support corrective action, re-baselining, closeout, or extension decisions.
- Drive consistent value measurement practices across financial, operational, risk/compliance, decision support, and workforce-related outcomes.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or related field.
- Significant experience in finance, strategic planning, transformation, program/PMO leadership, reporting, or related business functions.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
- Strength in budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial modeling, reporting, variance analysis, and executive decision support.
- Experience building governance, reporting cadence, accountability models, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong knowledge of performance measurement, success metrics, baseline methodology, and variance review.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in finance/accounting or related discipline.
- Experience as a finance business partner to senior leadership.
- Experience supporting executive decision-making; global/multi-geography leadership.
- Experience in complex regulatory/operational/highly matrixed environments.
- Change management, milestone alignment, risk mitigation for large-scale transformation.
- Experience applying structured frameworks for value measurement across financial, operational, risk/compliance, decision quality, and workforce experience.
- Experience managing teams and/or leading through matrixed organizations.
What You’ll Do
- Lead execution of the Value Realization Framework for in-scope, material, and transformational initiatives.
- Partner with project owners and stakeholders to define success metrics, baseline methodology, and reporting approaches for credible value measurement.
- Facilitate VRO intake and kickoff; review initiative materials (current/target state, cost to achieve, ownership, dependencies, expected outcomes).
- Challenge and guide proposed metrics, measurement methods, and baseline assumptions.
- Confirm sign-off criteria for success metrics, target/baseline values, reporting cadence, measurability confidence, and accountability before ongoing monitoring.
- Establish and maintain structured governance and reporting cadence; regularly review initiative scorecards and reporting packages.
- Review realized value vs. agreed metrics, baseline, and budget to determine progress toward outcomes.
- Evaluate measurability confidence; document assumptions, confidence levels, and Finance validation as applicable.
- Escalate material risks, unresolved gaps, and variances; support corrective action, re-baselining, closeout, or extension decisions.
- Drive consistent value measurement practices across financial, operational, risk/compliance, decision support, and workforce-related outcomes.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or related field.
- Significant experience in finance, strategic planning, transformation, program/PMO leadership, reporting, or related business functions.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
- Strength in budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial modeling, reporting, variance analysis, and executive decision support.
- Experience building governance, reporting cadence, accountability models, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong knowledge of performance measurement, success metrics, baseline methodology, and variance review.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in finance/accounting or related discipline.
- Experience as a finance business partner to senior leadership.
- Experience supporting executive decision-making; global/multi-geography leadership.
- Experience in complex regulatory/operational/highly matrixed environments.
- Change management, milestone alignment, risk mitigation for large-scale transformation.
- Experience applying structured frameworks for value measurement across financial, operational, risk/compliance, decision quality, and workforce experience.
- Experience managing teams and/or leading through matrixed organizations.