[Hiring] Executive Director, Transformation & Integration Lead @Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Role Description

Jazz Pharmaceuticals is undertaking a bold, enterprise-wide transformation to reimagine our operating model and build a patient-centric, agile, and scalable rare disease organization delivering differentiated, precise customer experiences.

This Executive Director, Transformation & Integration Lead is a senior, enterprise leader responsible for setting direction and driving execution of one or more mission-critical transformation programs that shape the future of Jazz. This role operates as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to senior leaders with accountability for designing, orchestrating, and embedding large-scale change across functions.

This is a high-visibility, high-impact role for a leader who operates comfortably at the most senior levels of the organization, influences without authority, and balances strategic vision with hands-on execution. The Transformation Lead will lead integrations for new acquisitions and other business development activities. They will also own complex, multi-year initiatives, navigate ambiguity, and challenge the status quo to deliver measurable, sustainable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Transformation Strategy & Vision:
  • Translate Jazz’s enterprise transformation vision into integrated, multi-year strategies, roadmaps, and value cases across assigned functional or enterprise domains.
  • Partner with fellow Transformation Leads, and senior leaders across Jazz to identify, prioritize, and shape transformation initiatives that drive a high performing organization, growth, patient impact and cost efficiency.
  • Define future-state operating models considering portfolio evolution, market dynamics, digital enablement, and organizational capabilities.
• End-to-End Integration and Transformation Leadership:
  • Serve as accountable executive owner for integrations and key transformation programs, with responsibility for outcomes from concept through full-scale implementation and sustainment.
  • Lead complex integrations and initiatives spanning multiple workstreams, functions, and geographies, ensuring alignment to enterprise objectives and interdependencies.
  • Oversee design and implementation of new ways of working, including structure, governance, decision rights, processes, incentives, capabilities, and technology.
• Executive Partnership & Influence:
  • Act as a thought partner and challenger to senior leaders, providing objective insight, rigorous analytics, and scenario-based recommendations.
  • Engage in productive challenge with EC members and functional leaders to drive alignment, resolve trade-offs, and accelerate decision-making.
  • Represent integration and transformation progress, risks, and outcomes to the Executive Committee and other senior governance forums.
• Change Leadership & Organizational Adoption:
  • Set the change agenda and ensure deep, lasting embedding of integration and transformation outcomes across Jazz.
  • Lead enterprise-wide change management strategies, including stakeholder engagement, communications, capability building, and cultural reinforcement.
  • Anticipate and actively manage resistance, enabling leaders and teams to adopt new mindsets and behaviors aligned with a customer- and patient-first orientation.
• Cross-Functional & Matrix Leadership:
  • Lead and develop matrixed integration and transformation teams and workstream leaders, fostering accountability, collaboration, and high performance.
  • Partner closely with executive leaders of assigned functions (e.g., R&D, Commercial, G&A, Digital) to ensure seamless integration and execution of transformation initiatives.
  • Model enterprise thinking and drive solutions that optimize outcomes for Jazz as a whole, not individual functions.
• Performance Management & Value Delivery:
  • Define enterprise-level KPIs, success metrics, and value realization plans linked to integration and transformation objectives.
  • Monitor progress rigorously, course correct as needed and ensure delivery of committed outcomes.
  • Provide transparent, executive-level reporting on milestones, risks, and impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MBA, PhD, or equivalent) preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in life sciences, healthcare, management consulting, or enterprise transformation roles, working in a team environment.
• Proven record of leading integrations in a global pharmaceutical or biotech organizations for both assets in development and commercialized assets.
• Experience driving large-scale, complex, cross-functional transformations with measurable business impact; ability to lead cross functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to operate credibly at the Executive Committee level, including preparing and delivering executive-level presentations.
• Deep expertise in one or more areas such as Commercial, R&D, G&A, digital transformation, operating model design, or enterprise change.
• Strong systems thinker with the ability to connect strategy, data, operating models, and culture.
• Highly effective influencer who works across silos and leads through ambiguity without direct authority.
• Exceptional analytical, strategic, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience with agile, design thinking, lean, or modern change methodologies strongly preferred.

Requirements

• #LI-Remote

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401k retirement savings plan.
• Flexible paid vacation.