Co-op, Excellence and Business Transformation

Job Description 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.

Your Impact The Vertex Performance Excellence and Business Transformation Co-Op is a 6-month experiential training program for students currently working towards an advanced degree in Business Analytics, Health Informatics, Data Science, Operations Research, 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 Performance Excellence and Business Transformation functional areas and serve as a launchpad for your career.

The Final date to receive applications 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 Final date to receive applications.

Ready to apply? Submit your application and let’s turn possibilities into reality! What you will be doing:

PEBT (Performance Excellence & Business Transformation) is focused on advancing operational excellence across GCO by leveraging digital transformation, AI, automation, and data-driven decision making to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical development operations. The Digitization Strategy COE serves as a key engine for this transformation, driving the evaluation and deployment of AI-enabled capabilities such as agentic workflows, digital protocols, process intelligence, predictive analytics, and AI-assisted document generation.

The PEBT Co-op will partner with GCO team members to evaluate, prototype, and scale AI and automation opportunities that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical operations. Responsibilities include mapping business processes, analyzing operational challenges, developing proofs of concept using low-code / no-code platforms as well as analytics tools, and using data to inform decision making. Success in this role requires the ability to navigate ambiguity, break down complex problems, and translate business needs into practical, buildable solutions.

The role will also support the Performance Excellence workstream by helping enable and sustain the platform used to track performance metrics. The Co-op will develop practical experience in platform use, data integration, technical documentation, process design, and continuous improvement while partnering with Performance Excellence, GCO business stakeholders, data owners, and technical teams.

Key Responsibilities:

The PEBT Co-op will work closely with the Digitization Strategy COE & Performance Excellence team on several priority…