Senior Director, Chief of Staff to EVP and Chief Legal Officer

Key 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
• Drive execution and organizational impact by maintaining strong engagement with the CLO Org Leadership Team, monitoring progress against key initiatives, and ensuring clear communication and accountability across the organization
• Lead the operating rhythm and alignment by owning the operating cadence for the CLO Org Leadership Team, developing agendas and meeting materials, capturing key decisions, and ensuring effective follow-up
• Enable organizational operations by collaborating with the CLO, Legal Operations, and Finance to manage the department budget, aligning the CLO’s calendar and engagement planning with strategic priorities, and developing and executing department-wide initiatives
• Enable organizational operations by collaborating 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

Key Skills

• Demonstrated alignment with Jazz’s core values
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complexity into clear, actionable insights
• Exceptional ability to manage multiple priorities and drive outcomes independently
• Executive presence with the ability to build trust, influence stakeholders, and communicate with clarity
• Strong business acumen, ideally within life sciences or healthcare
• Excellent executive communication skills (written, verbal, and visual)
• High level of organizational and political agility with a collaborative, solutions-oriented mindset
• Experience developing board-level materials and communications
• Strong technology and digital fluency, with the ability to identify and advance opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and data to improve service delivery and team effectiveness
• Experience driving adoption of new tools and technologies, including piloting solutions, scaling successful use cases, and embedding change across teams
• Working understanding of AI governance, risk considerations, and responsible use principles, with the ability to balance innovation and compliance
• Unquestioned integrity, sound judgment, and commitment to inclusion and trust
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Working knowledge of Jazz and its corporate strategy
• Strong ownership mindset and appetite for continuous growth

Qualifications

• 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