Spring Co-Op 2027, Commercial Analytics, Market Access

Kickstart Your Career at Vertex!    Are you ready to make a real impact? At Vertex, 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. As a Vertex intern or co-op, you’ll work on meaningful projects, collaborate with talented teams, and learn from industry leaders. We’re passionate about innovation, inclusion, and supporting your growth—inside and outside the lab.    Why Vertex?   Real Projects:  You’ll work on assignments that make a real impact, not just busy work.  Mentorship & Networking:  Connect with leaders and peers who want to see you succeed through professional networks, connections, and collaborations that will shape your longer-term career.  Flexible & Supportive:  We offer flexible work options with Flex @ Vertex and prioritize your wellbeing.  Inclusive Culture:  Collaboration and inclusion are embedded in everything we do.  Career Launchpad:  Build skills, explore career paths, and get guidance for your future career.

The Vertex Commercial Analytics, Market Access Co-Op is a 6-month experiential training program for students currently working towards an undergraduate or advanced degree in Engineering, Statistics, Analytics, STEM, or other related fields. If you are passionate, collaborative, and growth-minded, a co-op at Vertex will help you gain meaningful experience in our US Market Access functional areas and serve as a launchpad for your career.     The application deadline for this co-op is November 15th. Please note that Vertex reviews applications on a rolling basis and reserves the right to close this job posting prior to the listed deadline. Applicants can expect to receive an update about their application before or shortly after the application deadline.     Ready to apply? Submit your application and let’s turn possibilities into reality!

US Market Access analytics team functions as an analytics center of excellence for the market access strategy, trade & distribution, revenue forecasting and pricing teams. The analytics team supports use cases that help the different commercial business units ensure that patients with a script for Vertex products have access to the products through their health plans, pharmacies and sites-of-care. The co-op commercial analytics will work with the US market access analytics team to work on forecasting and regression use cases that can help identify key drivers and barriers towards patient access for our pain and cystic fibrosis portfolio.

The co-op commercial analytics will work on several small initiatives each with a timeline of 3-4 weeks, the initial few weeks will be spent in training around US pharma and market access dynamics. The project profiles will be the following – Demand forecasting for pharmacies and hospitals Assessing the performance of contracts with payers and delivery networks Creating performance scorecards for payers Performing key driver analysis for identifying drivers of sales and access performance The co-op will report to the market access data analytics lead and work with them to learn about the data assets, business dynamics and create analytics scripts and reports and manage their tasks in collaboration with the data governance lead.

A bachelor’s degree in quantitative discipline like engineering, statistics, analytics, computer science Currently pursuing a master’s degree in quantitative discipline or a STEM focused MBA Tools & technologies: SQL, Python (Pandas, sklearn)/R, Excel Quantitative Skills: Regression & hypothesis testing, key driver analysis, machine learning (classification), time series analysis, forecasting algorithms, SQL analytical window