Senior Manager, Corporate Development 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.

The Senior Manager of Corporate Development Operations will be an integral member of the Office of the Chief Business Officer (CBO) and will report to the Chief Business Officer.

Essential Functions

• Leader Prep: Work closely with the Chief Business Officer to ensure content and material is available and time is set aside to review; in some cases, work with content owners to ensure effectiveness of materials. Proactively look ahead to internal/external meetings to confirm CBO speaking roles and content needs.

• Logistics: Serve as lead for planning all logistics for any meeting driven by the office of the CBO. Specifics include overseeing all aspects of the meeting, including: reserving meeting space (at or outside of Jazz offices), catering, selecting restaurants, team building activities, managing transportation, ensuring proper IT, scheduling, local employee engagement, etc.

• Project Management: Support a variety of efforts with ongoing project management, including timeline development, expectation setting, slide review and delivery, action item tracking and follow up.

• Presentation/Content Development Support: Help with development of presentations and communications, as appropriate, including sourcing data/information to support presentation objectives.

• Request Management: Help manage and triage requests as they come to the office of the CBO; work with CBO to identify best path forward and stakeholders to involve as needed

• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional partners to drive projects and efforts forward, offering clarity and strong communications consistently.

• Executive Assistant Duties: Serve as Executive Assistant to CBO and leadership members of the CBO as assigned. Manage travel, expenses and other duties as assigned.

Qualities for Success:

• Attention to Detail: Must have exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills.

• Creative: Incorporate creative approaches to projects by taking initiative and working independently or leading collaborative efforts.

• Team Player: Ability to be flexible and resourceful as needed to help with the overall success of the team.

• Proactive: Identify efficient and effective ways for the office of the CBO to operate.

• Presence: Serve as a team player, show up as a leader, and demonstrate Jazz corporate values daily. Works well under pressure and within aggressive time constraints.

• Discretion: Confidentiality and discretion are necessary.

• High Performing Practices: Employ all practices regularly (growth mindset, willingness to constructively challenge, holding ourselves/others accountable and ruthlessly prioritize). Help hold others accountable for leaning into the practices, as well.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Minimum of 10 years of pharmaceutical business experience, ideally with experience in operations or a key part of the business.

• Ability to prioritize and multi-task, work effectively with little or no direction, and build collaborative relationships with management, partners, and peers.

• Self-starter with the ability to be resourceful, leverage network, proactively seek information, and solve problems.

• Comfortable and effective working, collaborating, and communicating remotely.

• Effective written and oral communication skills.

• Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills; ability to interact with ease with board members and executives.

• Advanced self-awareness and drive for in-role development to continually elevate the level of autonomy and proactivity.

• Ability to work in a highly energetic, flexible, and fast-paced environment.

• Project management skills/certification preferred.

• This role will require the incumbent to be based in the US.

Required/Preferred Education and Licenses

• Bachelor’s Degree required

• Proven proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Zoom.

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:

Individual 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