Are you experienced in, and passionate about business partnering and IT leadership? Consider applying your expertise to impact the delivery of innovative business solutions to build maximum competitive advantage in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being ambitious, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

Site Description:

This role will support the Americas Supply and Operations function. In Operations, we have a big ambition – to deliver more medicines to patients, quicker and more affordably. Backed by the investment, leadership, and a clear plan to get there, we bring personal dedication and out-of-the-box thinking. From our science labs to manufacturing at scale, we are committed to delivering at the highest quality. It’s inspiring and exciting work, influencing every part of the product lifecycle to deliver life-changing medicines. To ultimately make people’s lives better – from patients and their families to all of us in society.

SET/Business Area:

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 Centers in India and Mexico.

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 cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. All with a passion to impact lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning and more.

It’s a dynamic and ambitious environment to work in – but that’s why we like it. There are countless opportunities to learn and grow, whether that’s exploring new technologies in hackathons, or redefining the roles and work of colleagues, forever. This is your chance join a team that has the backing to innovate, redefine an industry and change lives.

What you’ll do:

The Business Partner will develop key relationships within their business area to build an in-depth understanding of priorities, gaining early insight into changing needs to ensure customers gain appropriate value from IT services, capabilities and innovations. The role will drive the delivery of innovative business solutions to create maximum competitive advantage.

The Business Partner will work multi-functionally with:

• IT Strategy, Capabilities, Architecture, Portfolio Management and Project/Programme Management functions to agree the future shape of proposed solutions and manage business expectations of outcomes
• Business representatives and IT to conducting high-level investigations on requirements specifications and feasibility studies to advise on practicability of alternatives marrying up technical limitations with operational realities
• Other customer area Business Partners to create alignment and identify cross-business innovative opportunities
• Portfolio Managers and solution delivery leads to initiate projects, clearly define scope and supervise the delivery of project value compared to the promised benefits

Role Requirements:

• Build tight-knit collaboration groups, developing a deep understanding of the short-term and long-term business direction.
• Assess and prioritize requirements in line with IT strategy.
• Develop and maintain the customer account plan, including accurate customer forecasting, demand planning and effective delivery of the plan
• Develop business impact assessment, identifying risks and issues that may affect current and future business units and roles, and create business readiness plan
• Sustain performance metrics and proactively identify areas for improvement
• Present and commit to IT initiatives, using specialist knowledge to gain commitment to established or new IT services Customer Service function to ensure the IT services plans are established for the customer group and are operating optimally
• Bachelor's Degree Required
• 5 years of experience as a Business Partner or equivalent in IT
• 2 years of experience in a pharmaceutical organization

Desirable for the role:

• Self-Starter who can perform business analysis and project design delivering small to medium size business change activities; or as a member or lead of a BA team in a large or global business change.
• Operates with a high level of interactive communication, demonstrating high levels of diversity partnerships and cultural sensitivity
• Bachelor's Degree Preferred

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering innovative methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what’s next!

Are you already envisioning yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

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