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Director, Analytics and Automation

Jazz Pharmaceuticals
$188,000.00 - $282,000.00
vision insurance, 401(k)
United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Mar 13, 2026

If you are a current Jazz employee please apply via the Internal Career site.

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 Director of Analytics & Automation is responsible for leading enterprise analytics and automation capabilities to accelerate insight generation, improve operational efficiency, and drive measurable business value. This role will drive the analytics and automation roadmap, establish standards and governance, and partner closely with business and technology stakeholders to scale datadriven decisionmaking and automation across the organization. The right leader will form strong trusted partnerships with functional analytics centers of excellence (COEs) while leading a central team that provides training and manages the enterprise platform. This role collaborates closely with fellow Data & AI leaders including the Data Governance, Enterprise Data Architecture and AI leads. The role also includes people leadership, capability building, and executivelevel influence. The right leader will think beyond traditional project delivery and have the expertise to focus on capability and product development.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the enterprise analytics and automation strategy aligned to business priorities and digital transformation goals.

  • Establish a clear roadmap for guided self-service, advanced analytics, and automation.

  • Act as a senior advisor to executive and functional leaders on analytics, automation, and insight generation.

  • Drive value-based prioritization, ensuring initiatives deliver measurable business outcomes.

  • Ensure strong analytical practices, including data modeling, visualization standards, and insight storytelling.

  • Lead analytics-adjacent and process automation initiatives that improve efficiency, quality, and cycle time.

  • Partner with automation, engineering, and business teams to identify, assess, and prioritize automation opportunities.

  • Ensure automation solutions are well-governed, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architecture and standards.

  • Oversee benefits tracking and post-implementation value realization for data and analytics products.

  • Establish and enforce analytics and automation standards, best practices, and governance models.

  • Partner with data governance teams to improve data quality, KPI governance, metadata, and trust in analytics outputs.

  • Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and privacy requirements relevant to data and automation solutions.

  • Lead team of employees, CWs and offshore resources, leveraging consulting partners as needed to achieve scale

  • Promote responsible, ethical, and compliant use of data and analytics.

  • Transform data into actionable insights and recommendations to identify trends and patterns and generates insights for business leaders

  • Provide guidance on best practices for data visualization and considerations of UI / UX for ease of user consumption

  • Collaborate with functional analysts and data science leads to create a community of practice

  • Partner with Data & AI team colleagues and DEC product owners to lead analytics community and provide guidance on the optimal analytics solution to meet business needs

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • 7+ years of relevant project experience in successfully launching, planning, and executing data analytics projects, including end to end data engineering, modeling and analytics delivery

  • Proven experience working in highly collaborative cross-functional teams and delivering solutions through both waterfall and agile project delivery

  • Experience with a hub and spoke capability model including functional centers of excellence paired with IT led central capabilities

  • Experience in applying analytics solutions to all areas of life sciences including R&D, Commercial and Manufacturing preferred

  • Fluency in multiple analytics and automation solutions such as SQL, Power BI, Power Automate, R, Python

  • Excels at collaboration and problem solving with varied stakeholders and technical teams

  • Adherence to best practices for crafting maintainable and modular code

  • Ability to communicate complex projects, models, and results to a diverse audience with a wide range of understanding

  • Strong problem solving and interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a diverse team including IT and functional analytics teams.

  • Proven experience working in a consultative and collaborative manner with cross-functional teams, overseeing projects and ensuring timely results

  • Strong data visualization capabilities complemented by a knack for data-driven storytelling

  • Passionate about promoting a data driven culture while operating with integrity and ensuring responsible and ethical data usage

  • Committed to forming trusting and collaborative partnerships with internal stakeholders to drive capability roadmaps and enable guided self-service models

  • Prior experience in biotechnology industry or consulting experience required

  • Experience leading teams comprised of MSPs, CWs, employees and consulting partners

  • Travel: 10-20%

Required/Preferred Education and Licenses

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree, with relevant additional course work / training in computer science, data science, statistics, or a related field

  • Candidates will ideally have a specialization in Data Analytics, Statistics, ML or AI

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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: $188,000.00 - $282,000.00

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.

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