Director, Business Strategy – Operations, Research

🕒 2 days ago

🌐 United States, United Kingdom, +1 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote

💵 $192k - $288k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Operations

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Jazz Pharmaceuticals

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2003

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

🧬 Biotechnology

Healthcare • Manufacturing • Biotechnology

Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative medicines that address serious unmet medical needs. With a strong commitment to research and development, Jazz focuses on creating life-changing therapies, emphasizing the importance of collaboration, diversity, and employee engagement in its operations. The company prides itself on transforming patients' lives through its meaningful product offerings and a culture that fosters enthusiasm and flexibility.

📋 Description

• Serve as strategic business partner and Chief of Staff to the Chief Scientific Officers in Neuroscience and Oncology and their Discovery and Research Leadership Teams • Architect and facilitate executive operating rhythms, leadership meetings, quarterly business reviews, and strategic offsites • Track actions, resolve bottlenecks, and ensure strategic follow-through • Prepare executive briefing decks and strategic presentations for executive reviews, Board meetings, and scientific governance forums • Cascade enterprise strategies into Discovery and represent Research in operational working groups • Lead workforce and capacity planning across Neuroscience and Oncology Discovery • Act as Lead Data Steward for named allocation tools and timecard coding adherence • Oversee algorithm demand modeling inputs and assumptions with Resource Management • Defend and secure functional headcount and operating resources during planning cycles • Manage and track the Discovery & Research functional budget, including OpEx, CRO contracts, lab services, and headcount • Drive quarterly forecasting, accruals, variance analyses, and annual budget builds • Lead post-deal integration for acquired discovery programs, technology platforms, or research partnerships • Partner with Corporate Development, Alliance Management, and R&D Integration Leads • Direct annual and long-term OKR/KPI goal-setting and performance tracking • Establish metrics and operational dashboards for research velocity, delivery, and organizational health • Report progress, milestones, and mitigation plans to R&D executive leadership • Design and execute internal communications for Discovery & Research • Establish Discovery Town Halls, All-Hands meetings, scientific highlights, and executive briefings • Foster a cohesive and innovative scientific culture across research teams • Lead process improvement, administrative simplification, workflow standardization, digital transformation, and AI-assisted ways of working • Apply change management techniques to drive sustainable adoption

🎯 Requirements

• 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 partnering directly with VP/SVP-level executive leaders • Direct experience leading workforce planning, capacity modeling oversight, named resource allocations, and timecard compliance • Demonstrated experience managing departmental budgets, financial forecasting, and variance tracking with Finance • Experience participating in business development due diligence and leading post-deal functional integrations or external platform onboardings • High emotional intelligence and ability to advise and influence senior functional executives across diverse disciplines • Exceptional ability to synthesize complex project management narratives, data science strategies, and operational data into executive- and board-level presentations • Strong capability to interpret resource models, algorithm demand outputs, and financial analyses • Demonstrated financial acumen managing multi-million-dollar functional operating budgets and multi-year workforce plans • Proven track record orchestrating initiatives across matrixed global teams • Deep experience in process optimization, change management frameworks, and practical application of digital and AI tools • Bachelor's degree in a Life Sciences discipline or related business/scientific field required

🏖️ Benefits

• Discretionary annual cash bonus or incentive compensation • Discretionary equity grants • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401k retirement savings plan • Flexible paid vacation

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