Patient Support Communications Senior Manager, Kidney

Boston, MA (Hybrid)

$140K/yr – $210K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own internal and cross functional comms delivery for HCP and patient audiences, aligning tactics, CRC approvals, measurements, and REP team leadership to drive compliant, multi channel materials.

  • Own tactic development with agency partners and CRC aligned approvals across internal teams.
  • Define and monitor measurement plans for all owned materials to guide optimization.
  • Lead the communications REP team and scale training for new teammates.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for successful ideation, development, and execution of key tactics, messages, and materials for our internal teams who support both our HCP and patient stakeholders
  • Manage development of tactics with agency partners; validate tactics with key internal stakeholders where relevant; manage review/approvals of tactics through Commercial Review Committee (CRC)
  • Establish measurement plans for all owned materials and continuously monitor performance to inform future optimizations or discontinuation
  • Establish and lead the communications REP team and provides training and support to other new/junior members of the communications team
  • Develops new and maintains existing documentation of processes, work instructions, SOPs and ensures alignment on any process changes and work instruction updates
  • Manage multiple agency partners to ensure alignment, timely deliverables, and cost efficiencies where possible
  • Cultivate strong partnerships with cross-functional teams including the communications review committee (CRC) to support business goals

Requirements

  • Requires 3+ years’ experience in patient support, patient and/or HCP marketing, patient engagement, or other closely related roles.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services, Marketing, Business or related field
  • Familiarity with Medical/Legal/Regulatory (communications review committee) review process
  • Working knowledge of commercial marketing related software and platforms including Veeva Vault PromoMats and Salesforce CRM or similar
  • Ability to understand assigned disease area and its unique patient journey
  • Ability to understand key elements of patient engagement strategy and incumbent's role in executing that strategy
  • Excellent communication skills; patient-centric and customer-service minded
  • Effective project management skills to manage multiple projects and processes, simultaneously
  • Ability to execute support materials across a variety of channels (e-mail, print, video, text, web)
  • Ability to oversee and maintain a high volume of materials with attention to detail to ensure consistency of messaging and branding

Preferred

  • Experience leading a cross-functional team or REP team (lead the communications REP team)

Benefits

  • 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.
  • medical, dental and vision benefits
  • generous paid time off (including a week-long company shutdown in the Summer and the Winter)
  • educational assistance programs including student loan repayment
  • generous commuting subsidy
  • matching charitable donations
  • 401(k) and so much more.
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals

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Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious diseases and has made significant advancements in multiple chronic, life-shortening genetic diseases — cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia, and acute pain — and continues to progress clinical and research programs in these diseases. We also have a robust clinical pipeline of investigational therapies across a range of modalities in other serious diseases where we have deep insight into causal human biology, including acute and neuropathic pain, APOL1-mediated kidney disease, IgA nephropathy, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, type 1 diabetes, myotonic dystrophy type 1 and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. Our global headquarters is in Boston, and we have research and development (R&D) sites and commercial offices worldwide.Vertex is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top places to work by Science Magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal and the San Diego Business Journal. We have also earned a spot on TIME Most Influential Companies, TIME Best Inventions, and Fast Company Most Innovative Companies lists. Our research and medicines have received esteemed recognitions, including the Robert J. Beall Therapeutics Development Award, the Prix Galien, the Scrip Award and the Breakthrough Prize awards.Read our community guidelines: https://www.vrtx.com/vertexs-community-guidelines/

Founded in 1989
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
6.1K employees (282 in marketing)
83% recommend to a friend
88% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
340.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$44.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.6%
Direct
38.5%
Referral
22.7%
Social
1%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
258 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
3.8 years

Funding

Total Funding
$657.3M
Last Raise
$1.1M
Post IPO Secondary, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2024
    Post IPO Secondary • $1.1M
  • May 2022
    Post IPO Equity • $50M
  • Dec 2009
    Post IPO Equity • $443M

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