Director, Global Marketing Enablement Lead
Job Details
- Req ID:
- R011529
- Location:
- Philadelphia, PA -- [Remote/Home-Based]
- Category:
- Commercial
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.
At Jazz, we are reimagining how we design and deliver more precise customer experiences, enabled by new technologies, modern ways of working, and high performing team behaviors. Through this work, we enable teams to better understand patients, caregivers, and HCPs, anticipate their needs across the enterprise, deliver timely and personalized engagement, and orchestrate seamless, end-to-end experiences as One Jazz.
The Director, Global Marketing Enablement Lead, is a highly visible enterprise marketing leadership role responsible for shaping, connecting, and continuously advancing how marketing operates across Jazz globally. This role serves as the connective tissue across franchises, regions, capabilities, and functions to drive more consistent, agile, customer-centered marketing excellence across the enterprise. The Global Marketing Enablement Lead is both a strategic partner and a passionate advocate for marketers, helping create the standards, community, skills, and operating environment that allow marketers to do the best work of their careers while driving meaningful business impact for patients and healthcare professionals.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy & Direction
Define and maintain enterprise marketing standards, playbooks, frameworks, and best practices while allowing franchises to tailor execution to their market and brand needs.
Enable consistent approaches to strategic planning, integrated campaign development, customer journey activation content planning, CXO partnership, and cross-functional coordination.
Create scalable guidance and practical tools that improve planning rigor while enabling agility and speed.
Establish and evolve marketing operating standards, including marketing skills & capabilities to support consistency, equity, and career progression across the global marketing community.
Continuously bring external trends, emerging capabilities and cross-industry best practices into the organization to help evolve Jazz’s marketing approach.
Strengthen the marketing community and upskilling approach to share best practices, build capability, and scale what works across the enterprise.
Build structured approaches to onboarding, upskilling, capability development, and marketing career growth.
Use insights and feedback from global franchise and regional marketing leaders, CXO and enablement teams, and commercial, medical, and market access stakeholders to continuously learn and refine ways of working and priorities.
Collaboration
Partner closely with marketing teams to align marketing approaches with CX execution, driving consistency in how marketing is planned and delivered while enabling franchise-specific needs.
Partner with Learning & Development to define and embed best practices, ensuring teams are equipped with the skills, tools, and training needed to operate effectively within the marketing and CX operating models.
Bring together CX peers and team leadership to share insights, risks, and lessons learned, supporting alignment and continuous improvement.
Collaborate with Activation Leads to ensure adoption of marketing tools, technologies, and AI approaches are integrated and consistent.
Represent the Jazz Global Marketing Community in leadership forums and CXO discussions, ensuring franchise needs, dependencies and constraints are clearly communicated and reflected in team priorities.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Technical Skills
Deep expertise in pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing, including brand strategy, customer engagement, omnichannel marketing, and commercial planning.
Strong understanding of modern marketing practices and operating models, including how to scale enterprise marketing capabilities across global and regional organizations.
Proven experience embedding marketing best practices across teams and regions, using frameworks, guidance and partnership to drive adoption, without direct ownership of execution.
Ability to identify, assess, and scale emerging marketing trends, capabilities and industry best practices across the organization.
Business Skills
Outside In Thinking — Ability to view problems, opportunities and decisions from customer, HCP/Patient, market or external stakeholder perspective to align business decision to customer friction while putting insights into action leveraging external best practice to better shape solutions and strategy
Cross functional Matrix Collaboration – Ability to work fluidly across teams and reporting lines respecting SME, coordinating shared work, ensuring progress even when accountability is distributed – supporting decisions with professional alignment and focus on collective success. Deeply understands and values unique capabilities and perspectives of diverse functions.
Strategic Storytelling - Ability to craft purposeful, compelling narratives that make sense of change, inspire action, and align people around a shared direction.
Enterprise Mindset - Ability to look beyond team boundaries and make choices that advance the broader business, balancing local needs with enterprise‑level impact even when it may have personal implications.
Leading Without Authority & Thriving in Ambiguity — Ability to influence outcomes without formal ownership, navigate unclear or evolving direction, and create structure from ambiguity to drive progress and decision-making.
Continuous Improvement — Ability to regularly improve processes/products through reflection and iteration, generates new options and approaches when constraints exist, growth mindset, challenges status quo.
Required/Preferred Education and Licenses
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare, technology, or related field.
10+ years of progressive marketing leadership experience within large, complex, matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders, functions, business units and geographies.
Passion for marketing excellence, talent development, and building high-performing communities.
Preferred / Additional Qualifications:
Advanced degree (MBA or relevant graduate degree) preferred.
Experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, or other highly regulated industries preferred.
Working Requirements:
20 to 30% travel will be required.
Jazz Expected Behaviors
Demonstrates ownership and accountability, taking responsibility for outcomes and driving work forward with urgency, clarity, and a focus on impact.
Leads with curiosity and a Growth Mindset, actively exploring user needs, emerging technologies, and new ways of working to elevate capability and innovation.
Embraces change as a learning opportunity, adapting quickly, modeling resilience, and helping others navigate dynamic environments.
Acts with a One Jazz mindset, prioritizing enterprise value, breaking down silos, and building strong, trust-based partnerships across teams.
Delivers high performance results, setting ambitious goals, challenging assumptions, and consistently driving measurable business impact.
Models inclusive, collaborative leadership, creating space for diverse perspectives and empowering others to contribute their best work.
Invest in continuous learning, developing personal skills while coaching and elevating the capabilities of colleagues and cross functional partners.
Navigates ambiguity with confidence, using sound judgment, data, and user insights to make informed decisions even when information is incomplete.
Communicates with clarity and influence, simplifying complexity, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring shared understanding of priorities and outcomes.
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: $188,672.00 - $283,008.00
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.
