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Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a global biopharma company whose purpose is to innovate to transform the lives of patients and their families. We are dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases — often with limited or no therapeutic options. We have a diverse portfolio of marketed medicines, including leading therapies for sleep disorders and epilepsy, and a growing portfolio of cancer treatments. Our patient-focused and science-driven approach powers pioneering research and development advancements across our robust pipeline of innovative therapeutics in oncology and neuroscience. Jazz is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with research and development laboratories, manufacturing facilities and employees in multiple countries committed to serving patients worldwide. Please visit www.jazzpharmaceuticals.com for more information.
Job DescriptionAssociate Director, Analytics & Insights
Role Overview
Jazz is dedicated to delivering a differentiated customer experience, and the Associate Director, Analytics & Insights plays a pivotal role as a strategic thought partner and analytical expert—driving actionable insights that inform strategy, lifecycle planning, forecasting, and senior leadership decision‑making.
This role sets the strategic direction for Therapeutic Area analytics, advancing the use of secondary data analytics, predictive modeling, and analytical approaches to surface new insights and enable forward‑looking actions. The Associate Director oversees performance analytics, ensuring the organization clearly understands the key drivers, barriers, and opportunities shaping performance. This individual synthesizes insights from a wide range of data sources and collaborates closely with cross‑functional partners to translate analytics into meaningful business impact.
The Associate Director operates in a highly matrixed environment, partnering with Analytics colleagues and cross‑functional stakeholders across Field Leadership, Marketing, Market Access, Business Operations, Digital Enterprise Capabilities, and Learning & Development to deliver objective, strategic insights on brand and market performance.
A successful candidate will bring a growth mindset, demonstrating curiosity, resilience, and a willingness to learn from failure, experiment with new approaches, and continuously evolve how analytics are applied to business decisions.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Analytics & Insights Leadership
Define and advance the analytics vision and operating approach for the Therapeutic Area to strengthen data‑driven decision‑making across brands and the portfolio.
Serve as a senior analytics and insights advisor to leadership, influencing strategies, priorities, and tactics through objective, data‑backed recommendations.
Shape near‑ and mid‑term priorities in partnership with Marketing, Sales, and cross‑functional stakeholders, grounded in patient and provider experiences, outcomes, data and evolving market dynamics.
Represent analytics in planning cycles, business reviews, and leadership forums, contributing to enterprise‑level discussions and decisions.
Analytics & Decision Support
Lead the integration and triangulation of secondary data sources (e.g., claims, EHR/EMR, specialty pharmacy, Rx, CRM, internal performance data) to develop a unified view of patient journeys, treatment patterns, and competitive dynamics.
Apply predictive analytics and identify leading vs lagging indicators to inform forecasting, opportunity assessment, targeting, and risk evaluation.
Partner with cross‑functional teams to develop scalable analytical frameworks, metrics, and decision‑support tools that enable consistent, repeatable decision‑making.
Ensure delivery of high‑quality dashboards and executive‑level reporting, providing clear, actionable visibility into brand and portfolio performance.
Translate complex analyses into compelling, executive‑ready narratives that inform strategic choices and resource allocation.
Market Research & Voice of Customer
Lead the design and execution of qualitative and quantitative primary market research to address key strategic and tactical business questions.
Synthesize insights from primary research and secondary data to represent a holistic “voice of the customer” (physicians, patients, payers).
Facilitate insight‑sharing with brand and matrix teams to deepen understanding of product perceptions, usage drivers, market dynamics, and competitive context.
Cross‑Functional Collaboration & Influence
Build strong, trusted partnerships across functions, including Medical, Market Access, Sales Operations, Brand, Data Strategy, and IT.
Drive alignment on Therapeutic Area and cross‑portfolio analytics priorities, ensuring focus on the highest‑value business questions.
Act as a connective bridge across teams, translating insights into coordinated action and execution.
Influence without authority in a matrixed environment, balancing multiple perspectives while maintaining focus on enterprise and patient outcomes.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
Continuously evaluate emerging data assets, analytical techniques, and technologies to ensure analytics capabilities evolve with the business.
Identify opportunities to streamline, standardize, and improve analytics processes to increase speed, quality, and impact.
Experiment thoughtfully with new approaches, incorporating learnings from both successes and failures to strengthen analytics over time.
Required Qualifications & Experience
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative, scientific, or business discipline; advanced degree (MBA, MS, PhD) strongly preferred.
6+ years of progressive experience in commercial analytics, insights, strategy, or consulting within pharma/biotech; prior consulting experience preferred.
Experience supporting specialty or complex Therapeutic Areas preferred.
Analytics & Research Expertise
Strong experience with secondary data analytics, including claims, EHR/EMR, specialty pharmacy, prescriber‑level, and real‑world data.
Demonstrated ability to leverage predictive analytics to inform commercial and strategic decisions.
Solid familiarity with primary market research methodologies and translating research findings into actionable recommendations.
Proficiency with analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Excel); exposure to Python, R, or SAS is a plus.
Stakeholder & Communication Skills
Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, particularly with senior leaders and cross‑functional partners.
Strong storytelling and communication abilities, able to distill complex analyses into clear, persuasive insights.
Consulting‑style problem‑solving skills, with comfort navigating ambiguity and structuring work around decisions.
Additional Attributes
Strong project and initiative management capabilities, balancing multiple high‑impact efforts simultaneously.
Collaborative, adaptable mindset, effective in fast‑paced, evolving organizations.
High intellectual curiosity and continuous‑learning orientation, especially in analytics, data, and commercial best practices.
Exposure to advanced analytics or AI‑enabled insights is a plus, but not required.
Description of Physical Demands
Occasional mobility within an office environment.
Routinely sitting for extended periods.
Constantly operating a computer, printer, telephone, and other similar office machinery.
Description of Work Environment
Frequent computer use at workstation.
May move from one work location to another occasionally.
Responsibilities may require a work schedule that may include working outside of “normal” work hours, to meet business demands.
Occasional public contact requiring appropriate business apparel.
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Jazz Pharmaceuticals is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law.
FOR US BASED CANDIDATES ONLY
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices and we strive to provide employees with total compensation packages that are market competitive. For this role, the full and complete base pay range is:
$167,200.00 - $250,800.00Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, and other pertinent factors. The goal is to ensure fair and competitive compensation aligned with the candidate's expertise and contributions, within the established pay framework and our Total Compensation philosophy. Internal equity considerations will also influence individual base pay decisions. This range will be reviewed on a regular basis.
At Jazz, your base pay is only one part of your total compensation package. The successful candidate may also be eligible for a discretionary annual cash bonus or incentive compensation (depending on the role), in accordance with the terms of the Company's Global Cash Bonus Plan or Incentive Compensation Plan, as well as discretionary equity grants in accordance with Jazz’s Long Term Equity Incentive Plan.
The successful candidate will also be eligible to participate in various benefits offerings, including, but not limited to, medical, dental and vision insurance, 401k retirement savings plan, and flexible paid vacation. For more information on our Benefits offerings please click here: https://careers.jazzpharma.com/benefits.html
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative, scientific, or business discipline; advanced degree preferred.
- 6+ years of progressive experience in commercial analytics, insights, strategy, or consulting within pharma/biotech; prior consulting experience preferred.
- Experience supporting specialty or complex Therapeutic Areas preferred.
- Strong experience with secondary data analytics, including claims, EHR/EMR, specialty pharmacy, prescriber-level, and real-world data.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage predictive analytics to inform commercial and strategic decisions.
- Solid familiarity with primary market research methodologies and translating research findings into actionable recommendations.
- Proficiency with analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Excel); exposure to Python, R, or SAS is a plus.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, particularly with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
- Strong storytelling and communication abilities, able to distill complex analyses into clear, persuasive insights.
- Strong project and initiative management capabilities, balancing multiple high-impact efforts simultaneously.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc and has not been reviewed or approved by Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Fair & Transparent Compensation: Pay is considered competitive to strong versus biopharma peers, reinforced by market-competitive ranges in public postings. Company materials emphasize a robust total-rewards mix of base, bonus, and equity.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental & Family Support: Global paid child-bonding leave for all parents and paid caregiver leave are explicitly offered. Additional paid time elements like bereavement and a Global Volunteer Day expand family and life-event support.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits: A market-leading mental-health program provides extensive counseling and coaching access via Lyra. A Wellbeing Reimbursement Account and wellness resources broaden everyday lifestyle support.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc Insights
What We Do
Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZZ), is a global biopharmaceutical company whose purpose is to innovate to transform the lives of patients and their families. We are focused on developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases—often with limited or no options—so they can live their lives more fully. By transforming biopharmaceutical discoveries into novel medicines, we are working to give people around the world the opportunity to redefine what’s possible – to make the “small wins” big again. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Jazz Pharmaceuticals has a significant corporate presence in Palo Alto, CA, Philadelphia, PA and Oxford, England, with manufacturing facilities in Ireland and Italy. We maintain a highly collaborative culture where employees focus on how they can be successful and accomplish positive results by exemplifying the company’s core values: integrity, collaboration, passion, innovation and the pursuit of excellence. Together, we are more than 3,100 experts, analysts, specialists, advocates, scientists and professionals all with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Working together, we are proud to support patients, innovate and bring new medicines to market. For more information, please see our website at www.jazzpharma.com and follow us on Twitter at @JazzPharma. For information on fraudulent schemes involving our company name and recruitment, please visit https://bit.ly/2J1EjMA. For guidelines on engaging with Jazz on social media, please visit https://bit.ly/2OaMOuq.
