Senior Manager, Pipeline Innovation

R&D Pipeline Innovation Team Member

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. Our patient-focused and science-driven approach powers pioneering research and development advancements across our robust pipeline of innovative therapeutics in oncology and neuroscience.

This person will join the R&D Pipeline Innovation team which is a key component of Jazz Corporate Development. R&D Pipeline Innovation provides insightful, timely, and decision enabling R&D assessment of potential new Jazz Pharmaceuticals investment opportunities such as Mergers and Acquisitions or in-licensing of investigational new drugs or marketed drug products.

Essential Functions:

• Supports Jazz's efforts to identify new business development and licensing opportunities by:
• Maintaining Jazz databases of target opportunities and historical record of previous evaluations
• Conducting disease landscape evaluations leveraging internal databases and with external vendors
• Proactively monitoring industry changes/trends, conferences and the scientific literature
• Supporting other data gatherings and analytics
• Traveling to external conferences and meetings (10% - 20% of working hours)
• Supports Jazz's diligence and technical assessment of opportunities by:
• Supporting the Pipeline Innovation deal lead in coordinating R&D diligence with the relevant functions
• Supporting initial and timely technical evaluation of these opportunities from a drug development perspective (including: mechanistic rationale, preclinical evidence, clinical utility, regulatory feasibility) and business perspective (including: unmet need assessment, competitive landscape, strategic fit)
• Working closely with Pipeline Innovation deal lead as well as New Product Planning and the Corporate Development team to synthesize technical findings into overall recommendations
• Tracking and summarizing technical evaluation of opportunities and generating diligence summary documents
• Regularly interacting with and presenting to senior leadership regarding diligence findings
• Representing Jazz Pharmaceuticals R&D in interactions with KOLs, companies, academic institutions or other entities pursuant to above responsibilities
• Take responsibility for KOL contract management while contributing to outreach efforts and network expansion
• Support Jazz's R&D by:
• Maintaining the quarterly RNCD pipeline prioritization scoresheet to facilitate strategic decision-making
• Support regular neuroscience and oncology Advisory Boards

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ph.D. required with a good understanding of molecular biology
• 2 or more years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology research, business development, or consulting industry, demonstrating a broad understanding of drug development
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Experience creating recommendations and presenting to a team in an industry setting
• Experience managing datasets (e.g., in excel spreadsheets)
• Ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of people and personalities, from different functions, geographies, and backgrounds
• Ability to think critically, anticipate and solve problems creatively
• Ability to navigate and be successful in a fast-paced, highly-matrixed work environment
• Eager to learn from subject matter experts across numerous aspects of drug development
• Embody and model Jazz Pharmaceuticals core values

Jazz Pharmaceuticals is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law.