Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a global biopharma company dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for serious diseases. The Senior Director, Chief of Staff to the EVP and Chief Legal Officer will serve as a strategic partner to the CLO, driving alignment and execution of critical initiatives within the CLO Organization.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with the CLO as a trusted advisor to shape, prioritize, and advance the CLO Organization’s most critical initiatives, including key executive committee initiatives
- Amplify the CLO’s effectiveness by anticipating needs, synthesizing information, and ensuring the CLO’s time is leveraged for the highest-impact activities
- Ensure the CLO is well-prepared for key engagements, decisions, and stakeholder interactions
- Support the CLO’s engagement with key external stakeholders, including patient advocacy, external affairs, and board engagements
- Build strong cross-functional relationships to amplify the CLO’s influence across the enterprise, including partnering with other chiefs of staff and the Office of the CEO
- Prepare executive-level materials including board content, strategic briefings, and leadership communications
- Maintain strong engagement with the CLO Org Leadership Team to ensure leadership team members are aligned and focused on the right priorities
- Monitor progress against key initiatives, track decisions and action items, and follow through to completion
- Ensure clear communication and accountability across the organization, identify risks to key deliverables, surface issues early, and work to remove roadblocks or manage risks where needed
- Continuously look for ways to simplify processes and work with the CLO to ensure the CLO LT and teams can execute on the highest-value work
- Foster accountability and collaboration across the CLO Org Leadership Team, helping to improve outcomes
- Own the operating cadence for the CLO Org Leadership Team, including routine meetings and offsites
- Develop agendas and meeting materials, capture key decisions, and ensure effective follow-up
- Reinforce alignment around priorities, ensuring leadership focus remains on the most impactful work
- Create visibility into progress, decisions, and trade-offs to support effective decision-making
- Partner with the CLO, Legal Operations, and Finance to manage the department budget, including ongoing tracking and proactive adjustments as priorities evolve
- Collaborate with the CLO’s Executive Assistant to align the CLO’s calendar and engagement planning with strategic priorities
- Collaborate with the CLO’s Executive Assistant to develop and execute department-wide initiatives, including town halls, summits, training programs, and engagement efforts
- Lead development of CLO Org communications to ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment across messaging
- Drive progress on AI and technology-enabled transformation across the CLO Organization, ensuring initiatives are aligned to priorities, effectively executed, and translated into tangible business impact
- Work with the CLO, HRBP, and leadership team to support talent strategy, including hiring, onboarding, development, organizational design, and headcount planning, while advancing DEIB priorities
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required
- 10+ years of experience in progressively senior roles across management consulting, strategy, business operations, or similarly rigorous environments
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed (travel may be significant at times)
- Based in the United States
- MBA or JD preferred
- Experience within a complex, multi-divisional biopharma or healthcare organization
- Exposure to C-suite advising, board engagement, or executive-level decision support
Benefits
- 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
- Discretionary equity grants in accordance with Jazz’s Long Term Equity Incentive Plan
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401k retirement savings plan
- Flexible paid vacation
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