Business Analyst

About the Operations IT Team

Operations IT is a global IT capability supporting the Global Operations Organization. We business partner with Operations capability areas: Pharmaceutical Technology Development, Manufacturing, Global Engineering, Quality Control, Sustainability, Supply Chain, Logistics and Global External Sourcing and Procurement. We operate out of Operations hubs sites including in the UK, Sweden, US, and China; and out of our Global Technology Centres in India and Mexico.

About Astrazeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven Bio Pharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

About the role

Are you looking for a new challenge? Where you will support to shape the future for our business partners. By taking on the Business Analyst Role you are going to use and develop your skillset when it comes to IT, Manufacturing Systems, Automation engineering expertise and bio-pharma industry trends in order to influence and execute IT strategy and delivery in our Operations IT Team.

We are looking for a person who enjoys and strives to develop strategic relationships with Process Owners and Stakeholders, and furthermore identifies ways for IT to partner with our subject matter experts within the Manufacturing Capability to achieve and exceed business objectives.

The role focuses on driving IT Product Strategy and roadmaps, by identifying innovative technology solutions and exploiting current technology to create maximum competitive advantage to deliver business benefit.

This role requires you to flex between the capabilities for a Business Analyst and Project Manager, including successful delivery of requirement, project and products. And as the organization moves towards agile delivery the role will require you to seek opportunities to embed agile ways of working with adoption of agile techniques including scrum.

Key responsibilities

The role comprises of a blend of accountabilities across the Business Analyst, Business Relationship Manager/Business Partner, Project Manager roles along with Agile delivery responsibilities

Work with colleagues across the OpsIT and the C4Es, (e.g., Architects, Scaled Delivery, etc.) to identify the capabilities required to ensure outcomes/requirements are clearly understood and can be delivered.

Provide thought leadership, innovation and contribute to the definition of the technology direction and strategy for the specialist area, to drive transformation.

In the role as Business Analyst key responsibilities include the soliciting, understanding and prioritization of business requirements from multiple partners, including development of Business Cases. The role requires interpretation of the requirements to inform analysis, solution design, decision making and to positively impact risk and issue resolution.

In the role as Project Manager/Scrum Master, key responsibilities include following AZ PM processes to lead and influencing teams to ensure projects are delivered timely, within budget with goals fulfilled. The role will delegate tasks within the project team and empower team members with responsibilities. It will be key to embrace scrum methodology as the organization transition to agile ways of working.

Essential experience & skills

Experience of identification and implementation of innovative technology solutions

Experience of input to business strategies and influencing the vision of senior leaders

Experience of leading business cases

Experience of delivering projects

Excellent verbal and written communication skills including presenting

Excellent influencing, networking and team working skills

High level awareness and interest of developments in the Information Technology trends.

Knowledge in planning, change management, agile and problem solving

A proven track record of delivering results

Experience of bio-pharma industry desirable

Project Management experience

Why join us

Here our work has a direct impact on patients – transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working, combining ground breaking science with leading digital technology platforms and data. All with a passion to impact lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning and more. Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth. Focused and committed, and backed with the investment to succeed, we’re driving cross-company change to disrupt the entire industry.

In addition you will also join an inspiring and expert team, where we continuously introduce new theories, shares insights and lessons and have an open culture where we encourage each other to share thoughts. We are open to hearing what interests you have and ensure we invest time to develop you in your future path.

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