Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Director, Workforce Planning

Boston, MA · Director · Contract

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About the role

The role will plan across internal, external, and digital labor, giving Vertex a consistent view of workforce demand, supply, capacity, cost, and mix.
Actual base salary pay will be based on a number of factors, including skills, competencies, experience, and other job-related factors permitted by law.
Flex Designation: Hybrid-Eligible Or On-Site Eligible Flex Eligibility Status: In this Hybrid-Eligible role, you can choose to be designated as: 1.

Partner with Finance to develop planning assumptions, scenario models, affordability guardrails, and enterprise standards for executive decision-making.
Partner with HRBPs and Functional Finance to deeply understand business context, pressure-test planning assumptions, and ensure workforce plans and process reflect what is happening in the business.
Partner with Strategic Sourcing to align extended workforce planning with vendor strategy, contingent labor management, external capacity, and total cost of labor.
Drive automation, standardization and continuous improvement of workforce planning processes and reporting incorporating AI where applicable.
Partner with Talent Acquisition and HRBPs to connect workforce demand to hiring plans, recruiting capacity, pipeline priorities, internal mobility, build/buy/borrow decisions, and workforce risk management.
Partner with People Analytics to build dashboards, reporting, and insights that give leaders a consistent view of workforce trends and planning choices.
The Director will build the planning routines, models, and decision support needed to understand capacity, affordability, risk, and workforce mix across employees, contingent workers, vendor labor, and digital labor.

Bachelor's degree plus advanced degree in industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology or a related field (organizational behavior, labor economics, applied statistics) strongly preferred.

Ability to translate workforce plans into staffing, organization, capacity, and labor-mix decisions with senior business leaders.
Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or science-driven industry.
Education and Experience:

The range provided is based on what we believe is a reasonable estimate for the base salary pay range for this job at the time of posting.
This role is eligible for an annual bonus and annual equity awards.
Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay, in accordance with federal and state requirements.
Actual base salary pay will be based on a number of factors, including skills, competencies, experience, and other job-related factors permitted by law.
Lead Vertex's enterprise workforce planning cycle, including the long range plan (LRP), annual budget, position management, and monthly and quarterly forecasts.
The Workforce Planning Director will lead Vertex's enterprise workforce planning cycle, partnering with Strategic Finance, People Analytics, HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, Strategic Sourcing, and Digital & Technology on the long range plan (LRP), annual budget, headcount forecasts, and workforce reporting.

The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertex's Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.
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 person's 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.
Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the recruiter or hiring manager, or contact Talent Acquisition at ApplicationAssistance@vrtx.com
The Director will also be expected to use AI as a core part of how they work, improving the speed, quality, and scalability of workforce planning, analysis, and decision support.

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