Director, Regulatory Data Management (Boston, MA)

Overview The Director, Regulatory Data is responsible for leading the strategy, governance, execution, and continuous improvement of regulatory data management within Vertex’s Regulatory Information Management System (RIMS). This role provides leadership for accurate collection, maintenance, quality oversight, reporting, and inspection readiness of critical regulatory data and documentation. Responsibilities Lead the Regulatory Data Management function, setting vision, operating model, priorities, and performance expectations for data governance, data quality, and regulatory information reporting. Manage, coach, and develop a team of regulatory data professionals, setting objectives, managing workload and priorities, and supporting career development. Oversee RIMS data and documentation processes, ensuring accurate collection, entry, maintenance, and reporting based on approved sources of truth. Accountable for regulatory data quality and completeness across systems and processes, ensuring appropriate controls, monitoring, metrics, and issue escalation pathways. Establish and maintain data governance standards, including ownership models, data definitions, quality expectations, process documentation, and accountability frameworks. Drive inspection and audit readiness for regulatory information maintained in RIMS, ensuring data, documentation, processes, and evidence are complete, accurate, traceable, and readily retrievable. Lead development and delivery of regulatory data reporting and metrics for senior management, governance forums, program teams, and other stakeholders. Lead continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen data integrity, reduce process variation, improve system adoption, and enhance usability of regulatory information. Identify and mitigate regulatory data risks, including incomplete data, inconsistent documentation, unclear ownership, process gaps, and inspection readiness concerns. Ensure effective onboarding, training, and capability building for team members and stakeholders who contribute to or rely on regulatory data. Knowledge and Skills Experience in a leadership role in regulatory information management or GxP data. Highly developed stakeholder management skills. Highly skilled in change management practices. Demonstrated project timeline management and resource organization. Strong attention to detail and ability to manage complex, multiple projects. Strong communication and influencing skills at all organizational levels. Ability to establish priorities and work with cross‑functional groups to deliver against strategic objectives. Excellent analytical skills. Experience managing personnel (internal FTEs or vendor management). Education and Experience Bachelor's degree, preferably in life sciences or technology. Typically requires 10 years of experience in a technology area within a pharmaceutical/biotech company and 3 years of supervisory/management experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Compensation Pay Range: $192,000 – $288,000. Eligible for annual bonus and equity awards. Flexibility Hybrid‑Eligible or On‑Site Eligible: Choose up to two remote days per week or full on‑site work. EEO Statement Vertex is a global biotechnology company that 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (US)