Associate Director, Transactional Monitoring, Data Analytics & Risk Assessment

Associate Director, Transactional Monitoring, Data Analytics & Risk Assessment

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. We have a diverse portfolio of marketed medicines, including leading therapies for sleep disorders and epilepsy, and a growing portfolio of cancer treatments.

Our patient-focused and science-driven approach powers pioneering research and development advancements across our robust pipeline of innovative therapeutics in oncology and neuroscience. Jazz is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with research and development laboratories, manufacturing facilities and employees in multiple countries committed to serving patients worldwide.

The Associate Director, Transactional Monitoring, Data Analytics & Risk Assessment serves as a key compliance analytics and monitoring lead, driving data-backed insights to inform risk identification, monitoring priorities, and compliance program effectiveness. This role supports the advancement of a risk-based, data-driven compliance monitoring model by integrating diverse data sources, developing key risk indicators (KRIs), and partnering cross-functionally to translate insights into meaningful compliance and business impact.

This individual will collaborate across Ethics, Compliance & Privacy, Legal, Commercial, Medical Affairs, Finance, and IT to enhance visibility into compliance risks and support informed, data-driven decision-making. The Associate Director plays a critical role in strengthening compliance oversight and enabling scalable, efficient monitoring and risk assessment processes.

• Serves as a strategic partner and analytical leader, driving data-informed insights that enhance monitoring effectiveness, risk identification, and overall compliance program performance.
• Leads the advancement of a risk-based compliance monitoring model, leveraging transactional monitoring, data analytics, and key risk indicators to proactively identify trends and emerging risks.
• Accountable for monitoring execution and analytics strategy, ensuring leadership has clear, actionable visibility into compliance risks and program effectiveness.
• Partners across Compliance, Commercial, Medical Affairs, Finance, IT, and Legal to enable consistent, risk-informed decision-making.
• Transactional Monitoring & Risk Detection:
  Lead and continuously enhance a risk-based transactional monitoring program across key compliance risk areas (e.g., HCP engagements, speaker programs, transfers of value)
• Oversee monitoring activities to identify trends, anomalies, and potential risks using established and evolving methodologies
• Establish and refine scalable monitoring frameworks, processes, and governance practices
• Drive stakeholder alignment on findings, remediation actions, and issue resolution tracking
• Data Analytics & Decision Support:
  Lead the development and maturation of compliance data analytics capabilities supporting monitoring, reporting, and risk detection
• Integrate and analyze multi-source data to deliver a comprehensive view of compliance risk
• Define and implement analytics-driven monitoring rules, thresholds, and risk indicators
• Oversee development of dashboards and reporting tools that deliver clear, actionable insights to leadership
• Translate complex analytics into concise, decision-ready insights that inform prioritization and strategy.
• Risk Assessment & Prioritization:
  Contribute to and help shape the global compliance risk assessment process, incorporating qualitative and quantitative inputs
• Analyze data and stakeholder insights to identify and prioritize key compliance risks
• Partner cross-functionally to validate risks and align on mitigation strategies
• Maintain risk outputs and reporting to support leadership oversight and governance
• Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) & Insights:
  Establish and maintain KRIs to monitor risk across activities, geographies, and business areas
• Provide regular, insight-driven reporting to inform monitoring priorities and program evolution
• Continuously refine metrics, thresholds, and analytical approaches to strengthen risk visibility.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence:
  Build and sustain strong partnerships across Compliance and business stakeholders
• Influence alignment on monitoring priorities and analytics initiatives, focusing on high-risk, high-impact areas
• Translate insights into coordinated actions and enterprise-level improvements
• Operate effectively in a matrixed environment, influencing without direct authority.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement:
  Identify and implement enhancements to data sources, tools, and analytical methodologies
• Drive process improvements to increase efficiency, scalability, and consistency
• Lead adoption of new approaches and incorporate learnings to strengthen the compliance…