Senior Director, Activation Lead

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Technical Skills

  • Broad understanding of CRM, omnichannel engagement, digital enablement platforms, analytics and insights, sufficient to guide teams on effective activation approaches without owning detailed solution design.
  • Proven ability to oversee teams translating user needs into activation strategies, ensuring consistency, scalability, and alignment with enterprise standards.
  • Experience setting activation frameworks, standards, and success criteria that guide how capabilities are rolled out, embedded, and sustained across the organization.
  • Strong ability to interpret adoption, utilization, and impact data and use insights to steer activation priorities and course-correct at a portfolio level.
  • Experience designing and operationalizing global marketing frameworks and assets to drive consistent execution across brands, markets, and customer segments.
  • Proven ability to drive adoption of marketing practices at scale through structured governance, communities of practice, and feedback loops to continuously refine approaches.
  • Experience guiding teams through multi-function rollouts, including sequencing launches, managing change load, and balancing readiness across franchises and functions.
  • Solid working knowledge of capability operating models and agile delivery, with the ability to partner effectively with capability, CX, and technical leaders on activation timing and implications.
  • Experience leading and developing a high-performing team, including resource planning, performance management, and talent development to support evolving business needs.

• Business Skills

  • Customer Journey Understanding – ability to see the customer’s end-to-end experience clearly and use it on an ongoing basis for go-to-market strategic, tactical, and measurement decisions, while anticipating needs across touchpoints. Make practical decisions that improve journey and outcomes.
  • 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.
  • Delivering through Others – ability to achieve outcomes by empowering people, coordinating shared effort, and guiding progress without completing every task yourself.
  • Systems Thinking - The ability to understand how actions create upstream and downstream effects across the organization, seeing patterns and interdependencies to improve the whole ecosystem, not just individual parts.
  • Continuous Improvement — ability to regularly improve processes/capabilities 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.
  • 15+ years of experience in marketing, omnichannel, or activation within a pharmaceutical organization.
  • 6-8 years of experience leading people, including managing and developing high-performing teams and driving accountability across functions.
  • Demonstrated experience leading teams that include Directors or equivalent roles, with accountability for team performance, development, and outcomes.
  • Strong track record of partnering with commercial, market access, medical, and other cross-functional stakeholders and leadership to translate strategy into actionable marketing enablement assets.
  • Proven ability to establish and institutionalize marketing standards and frameworks within complex, matrixed organizations.
  • Experience operating as part of a leadership team, with demonstrated ability to influence global strategy, drive cross-functional alignment, and contribute to broader organizational leadership.

• Preferred / Additional Qualifications:
  • Advanced degree (MBA or relevant graduate degree) preferred.
  • Experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare industries preferred.
  • Experience working in rare disease or specialty brands, with a strong understanding of unique stakeholder dynamics.

Working Requirements

• 20-30% 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.
• Invests 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.

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:

$224,000.00 - $336,000.00

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,