Responsibilities

• Partner with the Senior Director, US New Product Planning to support US planning for early pipeline assets
• Help develop and execute early market shaping strategies for assets well in advance of launch
• Identify, prioritize, and map key external stakeholders, including:
• emerging and established HCP thought leaders
• treatment center influencers
• advocacy leaders
• patient community stakeholders
• other disease-area opinion leaders relevant to market development
• Support the design of thoughtful and compliant approaches to external engagement in partnership with medical, patient advocacy, and cross-functional teams
• Synthesize external insights to inform:

Requirements

• Experience in biotech or pharmaceutical commercial, new product planning, marketing, market development, field strategy, medical-commercial interface, or related roles
• Experience supporting pipeline, pre-launch, or early commercial strategy
• Demonstrated interest or experience in early market development and external stakeholder engagement
• Experience working cross-functionally in a matrixed environment
• Strong understanding of how external insights can inform strategy, planning, and launch preparation
• Experience in neurology, rare disease, or other complex specialty markets
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize insights into clear recommendations
• Strategic curiosity — asks the right questions and looks around corners
• External orientation — strong interest in understanding HCP, advocacy, and patient community perspectives
• Insight generation — able to synthesize diverse inputs into actionable implications

Preferred

• Experience engaging with or supporting strategy involving: HCP thought leaders advocacy organizations patient communities
• Experience in US commercial planning or new product planning
• Experience in specialty or rare disease categories with high unmet need and complex patient journeys
• Exposure to global teams or cross-regional collaboration
• Experience helping shape stakeholder mapping, insight generation, or early market development plans

Benefits

• Vertex, our Total Rewards offerings also include inclusive market-leading benefits to meet our employees wherever they are in their career, financial, family and wellbeing journey while providing flexibility and resources to support their growth and aspirations. From medical, dental and vision benefits to generous paid time off (including a week-long company shutdown in the Summer and the Winter), educational assistance programs including student loan repayment, a generous commuting subsidy, matching charitable donations, 401(k) and so much more.