Senior Manager, Commercial Performance Optimization Technical Lead
Jazz Pharmaceuticals
August 13, 2026
Remote friendly (Philadelphia, PA)
United States
Operations
Application instruction:
- If you are a current Jazz employee please apply via the Internal Career site.
Senior Manager, Commercial Performance Optimization Technical Lead — Performance Optimization Global Capability (Advanced Analytics & Optimization).
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with the Performance Optimization Global Capability Owner to design solutions and provide technical insight, effort levels, and tradeoffs.
- Translate technology roadmaps into scalable architectures and development plans; assess feasibility, constraints, dependencies, and risks.
- Convert business requirements into technical specifications and executable work tasks.
- Lead technical delivery: build/configure/integrate software aligned to business needs and standards, including Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), global dashboards/reporting, and global KPI frameworks.
- Lead agile ceremonies; execute roadmap and own complex technical challenges end to end.
- Guide development of scalable, compliant analytics/reporting solutions; ensure consistent KPI frameworks, data models, and governed reporting.
- Support integration with upstream/downstream platforms; enable self-service dashboards.
- Drive automated reporting pipelines and reusable analytics assets with data governance, metric consistency, and quality control.
- Partner with business/IT security/vendors to meet security and regulatory requirements; organize and direct vendors.
- Escalate and resolve cross-team technical challenges; mentor engineers and lead cross-team problem solving.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Experience designing/testing/deploying/operating secure, compliant scalable solutions.
- MMM design/operation including refresh cycles, assumptions governance, and alignment to decision timelines.
- Build/maintain data pipelines for promotional measurement/performance analytics/MMM (feature engineering, backfills, cross-channel definition alignment).
- Strong incrementality/attribution/scenario modeling trade-off understanding for decision-ready workflows.
- Enterprise architecture + cloud + integration patterns/APIs + data architecture.
- Technical leadership partnering with business for roadmaps, KPI implementation, standardization, and tradeoffs.
- Lead mixed teams (internal + vendors); collaborate with data science/ML and UX/UI.
- Experience in Agile product development.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering/IS or related field.
- 7+ years (or 5+ with Master’s) in pharma/life sciences performance optimization/promotional analytics/marketing effectiveness, with hands-on MMM or comparable optimization.
- 2+ years leading as Tech Lead/Program Manager/Engineering Manager managing developers; hands-on technical leadership on enterprise analytics/reporting/cloud data.
- 2+ years designing/delivering enterprise digital platforms (MMM, experimentation/optimization, KPI-driven analytics) with hands-on analytics tools/tech.
- Experience in complex matrixed organizations.
- Proven ability to mentor developers and vendor partners.
Preferred/Additional
- Pharma/healthcare industry experience.
- Experience partnering with enterprise platform or Global Capability teams.
- Experience with rare disease/specialty brands.
Working Requirements
- 10–20% travel required.
- If you are a current Jazz employee please apply via the Internal Career site.
Senior Manager, Commercial Performance Optimization Technical Lead — Performance Optimization Global Capability (Advanced Analytics & Optimization).
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with the Performance Optimization Global Capability Owner to design solutions and provide technical insight, effort levels, and tradeoffs.
- Translate technology roadmaps into scalable architectures and development plans; assess feasibility, constraints, dependencies, and risks.
- Convert business requirements into technical specifications and executable work tasks.
- Lead technical delivery: build/configure/integrate software aligned to business needs and standards, including Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), global dashboards/reporting, and global KPI frameworks.
- Lead agile ceremonies; execute roadmap and own complex technical challenges end to end.
- Guide development of scalable, compliant analytics/reporting solutions; ensure consistent KPI frameworks, data models, and governed reporting.
- Support integration with upstream/downstream platforms; enable self-service dashboards.
- Drive automated reporting pipelines and reusable analytics assets with data governance, metric consistency, and quality control.
- Partner with business/IT security/vendors to meet security and regulatory requirements; organize and direct vendors.
- Escalate and resolve cross-team technical challenges; mentor engineers and lead cross-team problem solving.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Experience designing/testing/deploying/operating secure, compliant scalable solutions.
- MMM design/operation including refresh cycles, assumptions governance, and alignment to decision timelines.
- Build/maintain data pipelines for promotional measurement/performance analytics/MMM (feature engineering, backfills, cross-channel definition alignment).
- Strong incrementality/attribution/scenario modeling trade-off understanding for decision-ready workflows.
- Enterprise architecture + cloud + integration patterns/APIs + data architecture.
- Technical leadership partnering with business for roadmaps, KPI implementation, standardization, and tradeoffs.
- Lead mixed teams (internal + vendors); collaborate with data science/ML and UX/UI.
- Experience in Agile product development.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering/IS or related field.
- 7+ years (or 5+ with Master’s) in pharma/life sciences performance optimization/promotional analytics/marketing effectiveness, with hands-on MMM or comparable optimization.
- 2+ years leading as Tech Lead/Program Manager/Engineering Manager managing developers; hands-on technical leadership on enterprise analytics/reporting/cloud data.
- 2+ years designing/delivering enterprise digital platforms (MMM, experimentation/optimization, KPI-driven analytics) with hands-on analytics tools/tech.
- Experience in complex matrixed organizations.
- Proven ability to mentor developers and vendor partners.
Preferred/Additional
- Pharma/healthcare industry experience.
- Experience partnering with enterprise platform or Global Capability teams.
- Experience with rare disease/specialty brands.
Working Requirements
- 10–20% travel required.