Real - estate development project director leading acquisitions, financial analysis, construction, and property projects for fast - growing EMD - Batimo.
About the role
- Senior R&D Resource Management leader optimizing workforce planning for Jazz Pharmaceuticals, a global biopharma company. Driving Planisware, AI forecasting, analytics, and enterprise resource strategy.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the multi-year strategic vision, roadmap, and operating standards for R&D Resource Management
- Establish an integrated operating model connecting Functional Line Management, Global Program Teams, R&D Finance, and Governance Committees
- Serve as the authoritative voice for functional capacity, demand trade-offs, and resource bottleneck resolutions during portfolio reviews and corporate planning cycles
- Lead the strategic application of AI and machine learning models for FTE demand forecasting
- Oversee Planisware algorithm design, calibration, and optimization
- Build trust in resource data through baseline metrics, standardized benchmarking, automated validation checks, and on-demand data access
- Sponsor and deploy Named Allocation workforce management tools
- Manage analysis of resource supply versus demand, functional constraints, skills shortages, and burnout risks
- Own global R&D resource analytics, dashboards, executive scorecards, and enterprise portfolio reporting
- Lead quantitative scenario modeling for portfolio prioritization, operational trade-offs, budget cuts, pipeline expansions, and business development integration
- Establish processes for timecard and effort actuals and variance analysis against forecasts
- Influence Functional Vice Presidents, Global Program Leaders, and Finance Directors on resource priorities and investments
- Direct and mentor Resource Management specialists and analytical experts
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field
- Minimum of 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in pharmaceutical/biotechnology R&D, life sciences management consulting, or clinical operations management
- Minimum of 6–8 years of dedicated, hands-on leadership in enterprise Resource Management, Portfolio Analytics, or Capacity Planning within a pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical enterprise
- Proven track record of architecting and deploying enterprise-wide resource management software
- Planisware experience required
- Deep conceptual and operational understanding of drug discovery, preclinical, clinical trial execution, regulatory submission, and commercialization lifecycles
- Mastery of Planisware enterprise portfolio management software, including algorithm customization, resource driver setup, workload curve modeling, and system integration
- Mastery of quantitative business analytics, data visualization platforms such as PowerBI and Tableau, statistical analysis, and practical implementation of AI/ML predictive tools in resource planning
- Hands-on leadership implementing Named Allocation, capacity planning, and resource management modules within enterprise systems such as Planisware, Anaplan, or Workday
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills
- Strong change management capabilities
- Ability to navigate matrixed global organizations and build collaborative bridges across technical, operational, financial, and executive groups
Benefits
- Discretionary annual cash bonus or incentive compensation
- Discretionary equity grants through the Long Term Equity Incentive Plan
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401k retirement savings plan
- Flexible paid vacation
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