Essential Functions/Responsibilities

Executive Partnership & Strategic Support

• Act as a trusted advisor to the EVP, R&D, ensuring focus on priority areas and providing strategic counsel to improve decision making and organizational effectiveness

• Partnering with the EVP to drive high performance culture and transformation initiatives

• Anticipate needs and proactively manage the EVP’s priorities and agenda, ensuring time, and capacity are focused on the most critical strategic initiatives

• Drive forward key R&D strategic initiatives and transformation workstreams, ensuring alignment among stakeholders to deliver high quality outcomes

• Act as strategic connector across R&D and key business stakeholders to drive enterprise wide outcomes enabling clarity, consistency, and timely decision-making

• Own, execute and prioritize a wide range of strategic and operational projects, exercising sound judgement and discretion

• In partnership with the VP, Pipeline Portfolio & Project Management lead the end‑to‑end governance cycle for PGC and DPRC, including agenda setting, pre‑read development, executive briefing for the EVP, and post‑meeting action tracking

• Coordinate preparation of PGC and DPRC governance materials, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and alignment across R&D and cross‑functional partners

• Coordinate the development of materials to support the EVP, including board level presentations and internal/external communications

• Synthesize complex information and present clear, concise recommendations to support executive decision making

• Represent or deputize for the EVP, R&D in key meetings forums, and cross functional discussions as appropriate

• Identify and elevate emerging issues and trends relevant to R&D—internally and externally—ensuring the EVP remains informed on developments within the pharmaceutical sector and across relevant geographies

R&D Leadership Team Operations

• Lead end-to-end management of RDFLT meetings: agenda setting, materials preparation, decision logs, action tracking, and follow-up, in partnership with the Executive Assistant

• Ensure cross functional dependencies are surfaced, clarified, and resolved through effective leadership engagement

• Manage governance routines, meeting cadences, and cross functional alignment to strengthen leadership cohesion and operating discipline

• Work closely with cross functional business partners (HR, Finance, Legal, IS) to coordinate initiatives and streamline operations.

• RDFLT sponsor, ensuring alignment and integration across support functions

R&D Communications & Engagement

• Partner with Internal Communications team on R&D messaging, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment with internal stakeholders

• Lead development and delivery of the Monthly R&D Newsletter.

• Design and facilitate GROOVE sessions and Instrumental Sessions to support operational rhythm

• Plan, coordinate, and facilitate R&D All Employee Meetings (quarterly)

• Oversee planning and execution of the Annual R&D Conference

• Partner with business support teams to manage large, cross functional R&D meetings

• Manage R&D’s event calendar and ensure alignment with broader enterprise activities

• Lead the Chief of Staff (COS) Monthly Connects to maintain strong cross COS communication, alignment, and knowledge sharing

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in relevant field, required

• An advanced degree (MD, PhD, Pharm D) or related field is advantageous

• Extensive experience developing, evaluating and/or managing significant programs and/or initiatives – strong experience in the pharmaceutical industry

• Substantial experience working in a management/leadership and/or professional advisory role

• Significant experience working across international markets

• Demonstrated experience in a leadership role; communicating with and influencing executive leaders across various functions

• Demonstrates exceptional interpersonal skills that consistently reflect and reinforce Jazz Values

• Judgment and discretion and ability to manage highly confidential information

• Ability to successfully manage multiple cross functional projects simultaneously

• Ability to communicate complex information in a clear and concise manner at the executive level

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with internal and external partners

• Appropriate expertise in written presentations including Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Required/Preferred Education and Licenses

• An advanced degree (MD, PhD, Pharm D)