Vertex Summer 2025 Intern, DTE (Data, Technology, and Engineering) (Boston, MA)

Job Description

The Vertex Internship Program offers students the opportunity to learn about the pharmaceutical industry from a hands-on perspective. You will be working closely with and learning from some of the brightest people in the industry. When you join our internship program you should not be surprised to see that our environment is one that is innovative and team oriented, where collaboration is not just a word, and "we are relentless" is in everything we do. Students can expect to be challenged by their project plan, connect with other interns, and feel valued by the Vertex community. Not only will interns learn about their day-to-day tasks through their specific work assignments, but they will interact and have exposure to our organizational leaders and their teams.

Becoming a Data, Technology, and Engineering Intern at Vertex will give you a panoramic view of how the industry works, how decisions are made, how pipelines are built and progressed and how important your professional networks, connections and collaborations will be in defining your longer-term career experience. Our mission is to tackle serious diseases and to change lives, for the better, for the future. Our aim is to give you the skills, insights and career guidance to be an important part of that future. To turn your potential into progression. To turn possibilities into reality. To turn your ambition into a clear, defined career path.
Join us and help kick start the path to your career!

We will have various positions within our functional areas, including but not limited to:

• Commercial Technology Business Analyst : In this internship, you will work with the Veeva CRM team and cross functional partners to identify and understand the key functionality of the Global Veeva CRM platform at Vertex. This internship is an opportunity to become familiar with the Field CRM program at Vertex and play a critical role in ensuring platform scalability and health.
• Conferencing and Event Support Technician: This intern will work on the Core Technology Audio/Video Collaboration team to partner with conference room and event support.
• CPEAO & MWS: The person in this role will be an integral part of Vertex’s DTE CPEAO & MWS team. This intern will help support applications managed by our team that aid in the preparation, review, and management of clinical/regulatory/medical communications and publications. They will contribute to project teams with requirements gathering, business analysis, implementation, or maintenance of a system or tool. 
• Cybersecurity: This role offers an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience in cybersecurity, cloud (AWS) and application security. The candidate for this role will assist with migrating automation processes to serverless architecture, enhancing security alerting mechanisms, and improving our overall cloud security posture. A successful individual will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a natural curiosity for exploring challenges and developing innovative solutions. This internship is an excellent opportunity for candidates looking to enhance their skills in application and cloud security while gaining practical experience in a rapidly growing space.
• G&A, Financial Applications: The person in this role will be a supportive member of Vertex’s DTE G&A team and the global DTE organization.  This intern will specifically help support financial applications which enable the organization to function optimally financially by supporting the technology behind strategic investing, banking, procurement, and additional operational competencies.  This will include tasks such as implementation, automation, reporting, maintenance, configuration, audit, and more.
• GMDA, GCO, and Clinical Development: The person in this role will be a supportive member of Vertex’s DTE GMDA team for GCO and Clinical Development. This intern will specifically support the build and configuration of our Business Analysis process and delivery of business requirements for individual projects within Clinical Operations. This will enable the organization to function optimally by organizing our business requirements gathering practices across our several Clinical Trial Business Capabilities as well as various GCO DTE Projects.  This will include tasks such as implementation, reporting, and configuration.
• Marketing Technology : The Marketing Technology (MarTech) Intern will serve as a technical resource for supporting the DTE Commercial MarTech team across Web, Email and Content platforms. The role will provide support managing global implementation projects and platform enhancement projects across Commercial, Medical and Corporate Communications. 
• Project Management & Strategic Operations Business Analyst: collaborate closely with experienced professionals across IT and business teams, assisting in refining project reporting, improving data accuracy, and helping to optimize processes within our project management tools and systems. This internship provides valuable exposure to project management best practices in a dynamic, supportive, and team-oriented environment.
• Project Management & Strategic Operations Knowledge Management: collaborate closely with experienced professionals, contributing to the streamlining of document management processes, optimizing our knowledge repository within Microsoft Teams, and ensuring the efficient organization of project artifacts. This internship offers valuable exposure to knowledge management best practices in a collaborative, innovative, and team-oriented environment.
• Quality Regulatory: The person in this role will be a member of DTE   Quality & Regulatory team. This intern will contribute to project teams with requirements gathering, coordination of new technology assessments etc. The intern will also help support applications managed by our team, including support of change control processes, report development etc.

Qualifications:

• Enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program
• Permanent legal authorization to work in the United States
• Candidate must be enrolled in an advanced degree program if graduating before May 2025
• Candidate must be available to work full-time, 40 hours per week from May - August 2025

Program Dates: May - August 2025, Full Time

DEADLINE TO APPLY: JANUARY 31st, 2025

This job posting is for a temporary role with a third-party agency partner that provides services to Vertex.  The individual selected for this role will be offered the role as an employee of that third-party agency; compensation, medical benefits, fringe benefits and other terms and conditions of employment shall be presented by the third-party agency upon offer.

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 [email protected]