Director, Value Realization Finance

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Director / Director to lead the Value Realization Office (VRO) process for material transformational initiatives across the project lifecycle. This role partners closely with project owners executive sponsors Finance and DTE to define how value will be measured establish baseline and reporting approaches and monitor realized value against agreed objectives. The position is central to building a disciplined consistent approach to value delivery helping ensure strategic initiatives achieve measurable outcomes and addressing risks or variances when performance is off track.

What Youll Do

• Lead execution of the Value Realization Framework for in-scope material and transformational initiatives.
• Partner with project owners and key stakeholders to define success metrics baseline methodology and reporting approaches that support clear and credible value measurement.
• Facilitate VRO intake and kickoff activities reviewing initiative materials such as current state target state cost to achieve ownership dependencies and expected outcomes.
• Provide thoughtful challenge and guidance on proposed metrics measurement methods and baseline assumptions to strengthen consistency and decision-making.
• Confirm sign-off criteria for success metrics target or baseline values reporting cadence measurability confidence and accountability before initiatives move into ongoing monitoring.
• Establish and maintain a structured governance and reporting cadence including regular review of initiative scorecards and reporting packages.
• Review realized value against agreed metrics baseline and budget inputs to assess progress and determine whether expected outcomes are being achieved.
• Evaluate measurability confidence for each metric and ensure assumptions confidence levels and Finance validation are documented where applicable.
• Escalate material risks unresolved gaps and value delivery variances and support corrective action re-baselining closeout or extension decisions as needed.
• Drive adoption of consistent value measurement practices across financial operational risk/compliance decision support and workforce-related outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in finance accounting or a related field.
• Significant experience in finance strategic planning transformation program leadership PMO leadership reporting or related business functions.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and business partners.
• Demonstrated strength in budgeting forecasting long-range planning financial modeling reporting variance analysis or executive decision support.
• Experience building governance structures reporting cadence accountability models and measurable business outcomes for complex initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of performance measurement success metrics baseline methodology and variance review.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in finance accounting or a related discipline.
• Experience serving as a finance business partner to senior leadership.
• Experience supporting executive decision-making in complex organizational environments.
• Experience leading global or multi-geography initiatives.
• Experience operating in complex regulatory operational or highly matrixed environments.
• Experience driving organizational change management milestone alignment and risk mitigation for large-scale transformation efforts.
• Experience building or applying structured frameworks for value measurement across financial value operational performance risk/compliance decision quality and workforce experience.
• Experience managing teams and/or leading through matrixed organizations.

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to help shape how value is defined measured and delivered across high-impact initiatives. The role offers broad cross-functional exposure and the ability to influence strategic financial and operational outcomes through disciplined governance strong partnership and measurable business impact.

At Vertex we embrace continuous learning and encourage employees to stay informed on advances in AI technology automation and industry trends. We seek talent who bring an external perspective demonstrate curiosity and sound judgment and thoughtfully adopt new capabilities that improve decision-making drive innovation increase efficiency and help deliver better outcomes for patients.

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Flex Designation:

Flex Eligibility Status:

In this Hybrid-Eligible role you can choose to be designated as:
1. Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week; or select
2. On-Site: work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.

Note: The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertexs Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.

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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 persons 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.

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