Executive Director, Transformation & Integration Lead

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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

Jazz Pharmaceuticals is undertaking a bold, enterprise-wide transformation to reimagine our operating model and build a patient-centric, agile, and scalable rare disease organization delivering differentiated, precise customer experiences.

This Executive Director, Transformation & Integration Lead is a senior, enterprise leader responsible for setting direction and driving execution of one or more mission-critical transformation programs that shape the future of Jazz. This role operates as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to senior leaders with accountability for designing, orchestrating, and embedding large-scale change across functions.

This is a high-visibility, high-impact role for a leader who operates comfortably at the most senior levels of the organization, influences without authority, and balances strategic vision with hands-on execution. The Transformation Lead will lead integrations for new acquisitions and other business development activities. They will also own complex, multi-year initiatives, navigate ambiguity, and challenge the status quo to deliver measurable, sustainable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities 

Enterprise Transformation Strategy & Vision

• Translate Jazz’s enterprise transformation vision into integrated, multi-year strategies, roadmaps, and value cases across assigned functional or enterprise domains

• Partner with fellow Transformation Leads, and senior leaders across Jazz to identify, prioritize, and shape transformation initiatives that drive a high performing organization, growth, patient impact and cost efficiency

• Define future-state operating models considering portfolio evolution, market dynamics, digital enablement, and organizational capabilities

End-to-End Integration and Transformation Leadership

• Serve as accountable executive owner for integrations and key transformation programs, with responsibility for outcomes from concept through full-scale implementation and sustainment

• Lead complex integrations and initiatives spanning multiple workstreams, functions, and geographies, ensuring alignment to enterprise objectives and interdependencies

• Oversee design and implementation of new ways of working, including structure, governance, decision rights, processes, incentives, capabilities, and technology

Executive Partnership & Influence

• Act as a thought partner and challenger to senior leaders, providing objective insight, rigorous analytics, and scenario-based recommendations

• Engage in productive challenge with EC members and functional leaders to drive alignment, resolve trade-offs, and accelerate decision-making

• Represent integration and transformation progress, risks, and outcomes to the Executive Committee and other senior governance forums

Change Leadership & Organizational Adoption

• Set the change agenda and ensure deep, lasting embedding of integration and transformation outcomes across Jazz

• Lead enterprise-wide change management strategies, including stakeholder engagement, communications, capability building, and cultural reinforcement

• Anticipate and actively manage resistance, enabling leaders and teams to adopt new mindsets and behaviors aligned with a customer- and patient-first orientation

Cross-Functional & Matrix Leadership

• Lead and develop matrixed integration and