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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
We are seeking a proactive, collaborative, and detail-oriented Enterprise Data Governance Analyst to support the Enterprise Data Governance and Product team across a strategic portfolio of enterprise initiatives and data products. Embedded within the Data, Analytics & AI (DA+A) organization, this role serves as a crucial operational and tactical bridge with the business domain teams.
The Data Governance Analyst will champion a user-centric, product-oriented approach to governance; embedding data stewardship, quality rules, data lineage, metadata management, and regulatory compliance into the end-to-end lifecycle of high-value data and AI products. This individual will help drive adoption and application of Data Governance principles across the organization. This role is pivotal for culture and change management, fostering collaboration among business stakeholders.
The right individual combines a passion for data, analytics and AI, strong soft skills, technical understanding, and domain knowledge to create business value through data-driven change.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities
Enterprise Data Governance Framework & Operations
- Support the day-to-day execution, enhancement, and operationalization of the enterprise data governance program and operating model.
- Grow, facilitate, and maintain the enterprise Community of Practice, providing governance playbooks, metadata templates, assessment rubrics, and direct advisory support.
- Support enterprise data literacy initiatives, developing training materials and running awareness sessions to cultivate a data-informed and compliance-conscious culture.
- Partner with functional stakeholders to socialize data principles, policies, data ownership models, and data governance practices.
Data Products & Cross-Functional Program Support
- Provide hands-on governance support across strategic domain portfolios (such as TechOps/Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, R&D, Regulatory, PV, Commercial, and G&A functions including Finance, HR, Legal, and Procurement).
- Work together with Data Product Owners across all phases of the product lifecycle.
- Guide domain stewards in the definition, testing, and operationalization of data quality rules and dashboards to track governance KPIs and facilitate structured root-cause analysis and remediation workflows for data incidents.
- Maintain enterprise business glossaries, data catalogs, and data dictionary entries, ensuring transparent traceability from operational source systems to analytics and reporting layers.
- Author, update, and coordinate stakeholder approvals for Data Governance Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), data management standards, and operational guidelines.
- Support change management planning, stakeholder communication strategies, and implementation workflows to drive smooth transitions and sustained adoption of governance principles, policies, and tools across business functions.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong understanding of data governance frameworks and best practices.
- Proven experience in:
- Data governance and data quality management.
- Delivering data literacy programs and governance roadmaps.
- Supporting enterprise-wide data governance programs.
- Working within a data product delivery model or partnering with Data Product Owners
- Building and maintaining communities of practice (templates, best practices, advisory support).
- Working cross-functionally and engaging diverse stakeholder teams.
- Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements (and vice versa)
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Background in life sciences across multiple functions (R&D, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Tech Ops, Commercial).
Required/Preferred Education and Licenses
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- 3–5+ years of experience in data governance, data quality management, metadata management, or data analytics/governance project delivery (preferably within life sciences or a regulated industry)
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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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- 3-5+ years of experience in data governance, data quality management, metadata management, or data analytics/governance project delivery
- Strong understanding of data governance frameworks and best practices
- Experience with data governance and data quality management
- Experience delivering data literacy programs and governance roadmaps
- Experience supporting enterprise-wide data governance programs
- Experience working within a data product delivery model or partnering with Data Product Owners
- Experience building and maintaining communities of practice
- Experience working cross-functionally with diverse stakeholder teams
- Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and vice versa
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Background in life sciences across multiple functions
- Experience in life sciences or another regulated industry
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.
