Head of Culture and Communications (Remote)

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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

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Culture and Communications to join our HR leadership team. This role is crucial in shaping and nurturing our company culture, informing and engaging employees and ensuring a high-performing, positive and productive work environment.

Brief Description: The Head of Culture and Communications will be responsible for the delivery of effective people and organizational interventions that help improve the effectiveness and performance of the Jazz organization by shaping and nurturing our company culture, informing and engaging employees, and ultimately supporting the delivery of the company’s strategic goals and objectives. This role is a leader of leaders; with oversight of the functions that inform and shape our unique company culture and experience.

Essential Job Functions:

• Shape culture programs and interventions at the enterprise level that deliver our desired employee experience and drive a high-performance culture.

• Manage the development and delivery of inclusion and belonging strategies that align with the company’s aspirations while collaborating with senior leadership to integrate inclusive principles into all aspects of the organization.

• Establish and deliver enterprise learning and programmatic strategies that shape our people and patient centric and high-performance culture.

• Oversee the development and implementation of the global employee communications strategy and annual communications work plan to drive employee engagement with and understanding of Jazz's vision, transformation agenda, business priorities, and operational objectives.

• Develop robust communication plans to build awareness to company changes and ensure successful employee adoption and engagement and achieve business goals

• Own our employee listening strategy and approach; ensure that we have data-driven / evidence-based approach to delivering effective solutions for optimal employee experience and high-performance culture through the full project lifecycle (diagnosis, design, implement, embed, feedback/listen, sustain)

• Work in close partnership with other HR team members in a highly matrixed project-based team structure, with a focus on collectively delivering to effectively leverage the full Jazz HR Operating model to successfully implement, embed and sustain people and organizational change interventions

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• 10+ years of experience in roles of increasing HR leadership responsibility with a breadth of experience across positions that have been business facing (i.e., HR business partnering) and specialist roles  such as learning, DEIB, org development, change management, communications.

• Significant experience of delivering high impact and high value learning, organizational development and change/team interventions and solutions in complex, global organizations

• Good understanding of relevant concepts and theories related to people, culture, and organizational development / behavior

• Clear understanding of the business case for diversity, equity and inclusion and ability to oversee the delivery of an optimal employee experience and organizational culture that creates business value.

• Strong business understanding and acumen with results orientation and demonstrated ability to oversee practical, solution-driven initiatives that add value to the business

• Strong, proven organizational consulting skills, demonstrates high levels of sel