[Hiring] Director, Business Strategy and Operations @Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Role Description

The Director, Business Strategy & Operations (BS&O) – PPM & Data Science serves as the strategic business partner and Chief of Staff supporting two vital R&D organizations: Pipeline & Project Management (PPM) and Evidence and Value Generation, Data Science and Enterprise R&D Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (EDGE).

Reporting directly to the Head of R&D Business Strategy and Operations, you will operate as an executive partner and trusted advisor to the functional heads and Leadership Teams of PPM and Data Science. In this dual-function role, you will:

• Architect operational rhythms
• Lead multi-year workforce and resource planning
• Oversee departmental financial stewardship
• Steer organizational communications
• Drive cross-functional operational transformations that accelerate pipeline delivery and digital/AI innovation across Jazz R&D

Qualifications

• Extensive progressive experience in the biopharmaceutical, biotechnology, or life sciences industry
• Substantive exposure to drug development, portfolio/project management, data science/informatics, or R&D business operations
• Experience operating in a strategic business operations, Chief of Staff, or PMO leadership capacity
• Direct experience leading workforce planning, capacity modeling oversight, named resource allocations, and timecard compliance
• Demonstrated track record managing departmental budgets, financial forecasting, and variance tracking in collaboration with Finance
• Experience participating in business development due diligence and leading post-deal functional integrations or external platform onboardings

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a Life Sciences discipline or related business/scientific field required
• Advanced degree (MS, PhD, or MBA) strongly preferred
• Lean Six Sigma, Agile, or Project Management (PMP) certification is a plus

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401k retirement savings plan
• Flexible paid vacation
• Discretionary annual cash bonus or incentive compensation
• Discretionary equity grants