Associate Director, Reporting & Insights Partner R&D & Technical Operations
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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 Description
Brief Description:
The Reporting & Insights (R&I) Partner is the senior functional authority for performance insight across R&D & Technical Operations, responsible for transforming financial and operational data into prioritised, decision-shaping insights across R&D projects, manufacturing operations, and cost structures.
The role operates with significant professional discretion to determine which performance questions are elevated, how KPIs and scenarios are interpreted, and how insight is framed for senior leadership.
The R&I Partner brings together outputs across project portfolio spend, manufacturing and operational cost drivers, creating a single, coherent view of function performance.
This role sits at the centre of the FP&A operating model—connecting multiple specialist teams focusing on integrated insight, rather than standalone reporting.
Through rigorous analysis, scenario modelling, and structured interpretation, the role enables high-quality decision-making across R&D and Technical Operations.
This role focuses on integrating and interpreting performance, rather than producing reporting outputs.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities
Insight Ownership & Prioritization
Own the end-to-end integration of performance across R&D and Technical Operations, determining which performance questions, risks and opportunities require analysis based on enterprise impact and leadership relevance. Exercise professional judgement where data, KPIs or forecasts are ambiguous, incomplete or conflicting, acting as the functional authority on interpretation and insight framing.
Prioritize competing insight demands across stakeholders, balancing urgency, materiality and enterprise value.
Performance Analysis & Interpretation
Deliver function-wide performance insights translating financial and operational outcomes into clear drivers, trends and implications.
Partner with FBPs by providing rigorous analysis, scenario modelling and insight framing that enables effective judgement, narrative development and business recommendations.
Apply scenario analysis, sensitivity modelling and data-driven interpretation to assess trade-offs and inform leadership discussions.
KPIs, Standards & Governance
Act as the functional authority for KPI interpretation, variance analysis and performance storytelling, ensuring consistency with enterprise standards while applying judgement to functional context. Own and govern functional KPI definitions and insight methodologies, ensuring comparability, consistency and decision-usefulness across the enterprise.
Drive consistent application of insight standards, narratives and analytical approaches across the function.
Drive best-in-class reporting and insight practices, ensuring outputs are clear, scalable and decision-ready.
AI, Data & Reporting Innovation
Leverage modern data and technology capabilities to enhance insight delivery, including use of AI and advanced analytics to identify trends, anomalies, and drivers, improving efficiency and automation of reporting processes and enabling more forward-looking, predictive insight.
Contribute to the evolution of a Reporting Centre of Excellence (COE) by driving standardization and scalability of reporting and insight, shaping best practices in data usage and interpretation, and working with Data & Technology teams to enhance tools, automation, and models.
Enterprise Risk, Opportunity & Impact
Identify, analyse and articulate material risks, opportunities and cross-functional dependencies, highlighting implications for enterprise performance and leadership decision-making.
Ensure emerging performance risks and opportunities are surfaced early and framed clearly enabling proactive intervention where required.
Recognize that failure to appropriately prioritize or interpret material insights may result in mis-informed decisions, delayed actions or adverse enterprise outcomes.
Operating Model & Cross-Team Interfaces
Operate within the Global Finance model by leveraging outputs from Planning & Performance teams, without duplicating execution, validation or forecasting ownership.
Provide high quality functional insights, scenario analysis and performance interpretation to Corporate FP&A to support Executive Committee and Board materials.
Ensure alignment with Reporting & Analytics standards, contributing to their evolution as business complexity grows.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Extensive experience in FP&A, financial insights or analytical roles operating at senior or enterprise level.
Relevant financial or management qualification (e.g. MBA, qualified accountant or equivalent).
Experience in R&D, manufacturing, or operational finance environments strongly preferred.
Proven experience operating with significant professional discretion, influencing senior leaders through insight and interpretation rather than authority.
Strong analytical capability with demonstrated expertise in KPI interpretation, scenario modelling and complex dataset analysis.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complexity into executive-ready insights and narratives.
Experience working with enterprise financial systems (e.g. Oracle, SAP) and BI/dashboarding platforms.
Exposure to automation, advanced analytics, or AI-driven reporting approaches preferred.
Experience working in a Reporting Centre of Excellence model an advantage.
Willingness to travel internationally, including to headquarters in Dublin.
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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.
The successful candidate will also be eligible to participate in various benefits offerings, including, but not limited to, medical, dental and vision insurance, retirement savings plan, and flexible paid vacation. For more information on our Benefits offerings please click here: https://careers.jazzpharma.com/benefits
Skills Required
- Extensive experience in FP&A, financial insights or analytical roles operating at senior or enterprise level
- Relevant financial or management qualification (e.g. MBA, qualified accountant or equivalent)
- Experience in R&D, manufacturing, or operational finance environments
- Proven experience operating with significant professional discretion and influencing senior leaders through insight and interpretation
- Strong analytical capability with expertise in KPI interpretation, scenario modelling and complex dataset analysis
- Excellent communication skills with ability to simplify complexity into executive-ready insights and narratives
- Experience working with enterprise financial systems (e.g. Oracle, SAP) and BI/dashboarding platforms
- Exposure to automation, advanced analytics, or AI-driven reporting approaches
- Experience working in a Reporting Centre of Excellence model
- Willingness to travel internationally, including to headquarters in Dublin
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.
