Senior Director, Head of R&D Resource Management

🕒 September 21

🌐 United States, Canada, +4 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote 🇫🇷 France – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

💵 $228k - $342k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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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

• Define and lead the multi-year strategic vision, roadmap, and operating standards for R&D Resource Management • Establish and maintain an integrated operational working model connecting Functional Line Management, Global Program Teams, R&D Finance, and Governance Committees • Serve as the authoritative voice for functional capacity, demand trade-offs, and resource bottleneck resolutions during portfolio reviews and corporate planning cycles • Lead the strategic application of AI and Machine Learning models for FTE demand forecasting • Oversee the design, calibration, and optimization of Planisware algorithms and resource driver models • Build trust in resource data through transparent metrics, standardized benchmarking, automated validation checks, and on-demand data access • Sponsor and roll out Named Allocation workforce management tools • Manage analysis of resource supply versus demand to identify constraints, skills shortages, and burnout risks • Own the strategy, design, and delivery of global R&D resource analytics, dashboards, executive scorecards, and enterprise portfolio reporting • Lead quantitative scenario modeling for portfolio prioritization, operational trade-offs, budget cuts, pipeline expansions, and business development integration • Establish processes for capturing timecard/effort actuals and analyzing forecast variance • Partner with and influence Functional Vice Presidents, Global Program Leaders, and Finance Directors on resource priorities and investments • Direct and mentor Resource Management specialists and analytical experts

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field • Minimum of 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in pharmaceutical/biotechnology R&D, life sciences management consulting, or clinical operations management • Minimum of 6–8 years of dedicated, hands-on leadership in enterprise Resource Management, Portfolio Analytics, or Capacity Planning within a pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical enterprise • Proven track record of architecting and deploying enterprise-wide resource management software; Planisware experience required • Deep conceptual and operational understanding of drug discovery, preclinical, clinical trial execution, regulatory submission, and commercialization lifecycles • Mastery of Planisware enterprise portfolio management software, including algorithm customization, resource driver setup, workload curve modeling, and system integration • Mastery of quantitative business analytics, data visualization platforms such as PowerBI and Tableau, statistical analysis, and practical implementation of AI/ML predictive tools in resource planning • Hands-on leadership implementing Named Allocation, capacity planning, and resource management modules within enterprise systems such as Planisware, Anaplan, or Workday • Experience participating in and driving executive governance meetings, budget prioritization exercises, and multi-year corporate planning cycles • Outstanding oral and written communication skills • Strong change management capabilities • Ability to navigate matrixed global organizations and build collaborative bridges between technical scientists, operational leads, financial controllers, and executive leaders

🏖️ Benefits

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