# Portfolio & Program Management Associate Director

Job Description Position Summary: The Associate Director (AD) of Portfolio and Program Management (PPM) sits within the COO’s organization at Vertex and leads programs from Research through early Development. This role will support program teams involved in early research through to candidate preclinical development. The AD will partner with program leads and cross-functional teams to establish cross-functional strategy and plans to ensure execution against program goals. Key Duties and Responsibilities: Support disease strategy development within Research and drive cross-functional decision-making across the drug research and early development lifecycle, ensuring alignment between scientific objectives, portfolio priorities, and organizational goals In partnership with the program leader guide research and development (R&D) efforts to establish a high performing and data-driven team that delivers on corporate objectives and priorities. Support defining the approach and identifying key stakeholders for cross-functional decision-making and issue resolution Collaborate and communicate cross-functionally to measure and achieve program goals Lead the generation of program assumptions

- **Id**: 3836641
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/vertex-pharmaceuticals-portfolio-program-management-associate-director>
- **Role**: Sales
- **Role family**: Sales
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Boston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T21:14:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T07:34:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6461
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Prescription Drugs, Cell & Gene Therapy, Rare Disease Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 5871
- **Name**: Vertex Pharmaceuticals
- **Domain**: vrtx.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/vrtx>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 28
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.571
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 38
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 162200
- **Max**: 243200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 243200

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:14:50Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 174 · green card filings: 21; Filings 12m: 174

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 38
- **Reasons**: conf:5, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 243200
- **Is top pay**: yes

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