Director of Learning and Development (EMD / Sleep),

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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

Building Global Capabilities to Power Our Business:

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 such as One Jazz.

The Director of Learning and Development (EMD / Sleep), leads the Epilepsy/Movement Disorders (EMD) and Sleep L&D team and is responsible for the strategy, performance and execution of the EMD and Sleep learning and development programs. This role reports to the Senior Director of Learning & Development and is accountable for leading and developing a high-performing team consisting of an Associate Director/Senior Training Manager leveled team who cover Medical Affairs, Sales and Market Access training for Sales, Market Access and Medical Affairs colleagues in Sleep and EMD. This role will be responsible for setting clear priorities and ensuring the L&D team consistently delivers value to the EMD and Sleep cross functional teams through strong partnership and execution. This role owns the EMD / Sleep learning strategy and outcomes, translating business needs into prioritized training and ensuring delivery of high-quality learning programs that improve performance of the field (sales, medical and market access employees).

At Jazz, we believe that effective people leadership is essential to our success. Our people managers play a vital role in creating an environment where teams thrive and individuals reach their full potential. Jazz invests in people managers to equip them to drive performance, grow individuals, and create belonging.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy & Direction

• Set clear direction for the L&D EMD / Sleep team, partnering with the head of Learning & Development to ensure learning & training objectives are aligned with business priorities and EMD / Sleep L&D goals.

• Translate business needs into clear priorities, scope and success measures for the team by leading needs assessment and defining learning requirements.

• Partner with EMD / Sleep franchise and functional leaders to translate disease strategies, launch priorities, and capability needs into role‑based learnings and prioritized training roadmaps

• Oversee the design, delivery and facilitation of training programs and learning solutions (e.g. onboarding, launch readiness, key account excellence initiatives, skill building, and mindset reinforcement) that build capabilities across commercial, medical, and market access field teams and measurably improve field effectiveness.

• Ensure the team delivers high-quality, reliable trainings with clear expectations on scope, timing and outcomes. 

• Measure and monitor training effectiveness, using insights to continuously improve programs.

• ​Use stakeholder feedback to continuously improve learning content development and delivery. 

• Build and lead a high-performing, scalable team, including setting priorities, managing performance and developing talent to support evolving content production and deployment capabilities

Collaboration

• Serve as the senior CX L&D representative, engaging a broad