Associate Director, Digital & Web Ops Global Capability Owner
BioSpace · Philadelphia, PA · Yesterday
RemoteRemoteWriting$160k–$240k/yrFull-time
About the Role
Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a global biopharma company dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases. We are embracing a new capability-oriented operating model, allowing business and technology teams to partner side by side in building, advancing, and delivering global capabilities. Cross-functional, empowered Global Capability teams own outcomes and work from clear capability visions, strategies, and measurable goals. As part of this model, you'll collaborate closely with users, stakeholders, and technical teams across the organization.
Essential Functions
- Define and articulate the capability vision, and outcomes aligned to global and franchise priorities in collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Own and continuously evolve the Digital & Web Ops roadmap, making prioritization and trade-off decisions to add the most value based upon user feedback.
- Translate business needs into capability solutions with measurable success metrics that drive impact across franchises and the business.
- Define and standardize channel activation frameworks across email, web, media, patient applications, and other engagement touchpoints.
- Own web governance and content management across branded and unbranded properties (standards, templates, publishing workflows, compliance).
- Connect business stakeholders and the Digital & Web Ops global capability team, ensuring requirements are clearly defined and aligned to strategically important business outcomes and success metrics.
- Partner closely with the Tech Lead to align business priorities with technical feasibility and delivery sequencing, ensuring trade-offs support agreed business outcomes.
- Partner closely with the Suite Lead to align capability priorities, scope and roadmap decisions with team-level business objectives, ensuring consistent focus on enterprise outcomes and value delivery.
- Define clear capability requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to enable efficient execution and alignment with business partner activity needs.
- Partner across the Customer Experience Organization to ensure seamless integration and influence ongoing capability evolution to support scalability, flexibility, and compliance requirements.
- Maximize enterprise commercial ROI by delivering integrated omnichannel performance insights that inform budget allocation, channel optimization, and portfolio prioritization decisions for senior leadership.
- Partner with Activation Leads as the primary interface for new capabilities, aligning on priorities and driving adoption of new capabilities across franchises and functions.
- Leverage user insights and engagement data to shape Digital & Web Ops capabilities that drive an improved customer experience (for both internal and external users).
- Lead discovery efforts, engaging directly with users and key stakeholders to deeply understand their needs, validate business value, and assess technical feasibility prior to development.
- Partner across Global Capability teams to deliver scalable, reusable Digital & Web Ops capabilities.
- Monitor capability adoption, outcome KPIs and engagement metrics to inform backlog prioritization and continuous improvement.
- Develop and manage documentation (PRDs, user stories, discovery artifacts), and sprint planning in partnership with the Tech Lead and development teams.
- Drive experimentation to improve Web CMS Capability, Digital Channel Enablement Capabilities, Engagement Capabilities, and Patient Apps outcomes.
- Leverage outcome metrics to articulate the capability's value proposition and its impact, promoting capability awareness across CX operations and foster a culture of engagement and feedback in partnership with Activation.
Technical Skills
- Experience designing scalable capability frameworks, prioritization logic, and governance standards.
- Strong understanding of web content management systems (e.g., Drupal), digital channel enablement tools (e.g., SEO/SEM, social media), and patient-facing digital applications.
- Knowledge of digital channel activation, web governance, CRM-driven personalization, and compliant digital engagement frameworks, including how platform configuration and integration design impact campaign execution, patient journey continuity, and engagement quality.
- Experience working within Agile product development and product operating models.
- Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, or similar product management and collaboration platforms.
- Experience using AI, automation, or agentic workflows to enhance learning design, delivery, or learning operations.
- Experience partnering with end users across product discovery, design, and deployment.
Business Skills
- Customer Journey Understanding – ability to see 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.
- 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.
- Problem Solving – ability to break down complexity, identify root causes, and experiment with solutions using an adaptive, learning oriented approach.
- Managing Competing Priorities – ability to navigate shifting demands with clarity and adaptability, focusing effort where it creates the greatest future impact while keeping work moving.
- Decision‑Making – ability to make transparent, criteria-based decisions by weighing options, risks, and implications and aligning others around the path forward.
- Continuous Improvement – ability to regularly improve processes/products through reflection and iteration, generates new options and approaches when constraints exist, growth mindset, challenges status quo.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, technology, marketing, science, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries.
- Experience in digital product management, product ownership, or demonstrated experience managing the creation and delivery of a product roadmap within a cross-functional team.
- Experience working with web content management systems (e.g., Drupal), CRM and marketing automation platforms (e.g., Salesforce Health Cloud, SFMC), and digital channel enablement tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree (MBA or relevant graduate degree) preferred.
- Experience working in a product operating model.
- Experience partnering with Product teams supporting digital and operational capabilities.
- Experience working in rare disease or specialty brands, with strong understanding of unique stakeholder dynamics.
Working Requirements
- 20-30% travel will be required.