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The Research Competitive Intelligence Principal Scientist is responsible for becoming a disease area expert. This role is to maintain active diligence of the disease area landscape and work cross-functionally and collaborate on internal assessments. Responsibilities include the synthesis of small molecule targets within a project, thorough analysis of external publications (papers and patents), potential management of outsourced chemists, and cross-functional competitive intelligence alignment for the Disease Strategy Team. The individual for this position needs to be consistent, creative, and connect the dots quickly.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain active diligence of the disease area landscape (preclinical and clinical)
• Designs and executes more complex, challenging chemistry experiments
• Research external intellectual property relevant to Project(s) and areas of pursuit
• Alert Vertex programs of advancements/competition in the field
• Maintain disease area information databases
• Represents the voice of research competitive intelligence for their project in cross-functional meetings
• Contributes substantively to patent and publication preparation
• Distills complicated, multidimensional data to clear hypotheses and new experimental directions
• Designs and conducts elaborate, conceptually connected, chemistry experiments
• Use internal project knowledge to design novel compounds
• Prioritizes own studies within Projects and balances activities across Projects effectively
• “Multi-tasks” to a modest degree and effectively manages his/her efforts on multiple targets or themes
• Scours relevant scientific literature within field and surveys broadly beyond own discipline/field
• “Imports” new principles/concepts from other fields to develop useful new experimental approaches
• Performs other duties as assigned

Experience and Education:

• PhD and 4-7 years, a Master's and 7+ years, a Bachelor's and 10+ years, or the equivalent combination of education and experience related to Chemistry or related science
• Demonstrates astute understanding of his/her own discipline and the relevant literature
• Maintains a deep and broad knowledge of relevant science beyond own discrete field(s)
• Demonstrates increased fluency in new fields and projects more quickly and generally handles “multi-tasking” better
• Displays greater ability to productively disseminate ideas across discipline- and Project-boundaries
• Communicates effectively in verbal presentations and in writing technical reports
• Strong scientific understanding of early R&D processes
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong Ethics

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