Are you experienced in, and passionate about 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 daring, 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.

The Business Analyst performs business analysis and design either alone 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. The Business Analyst operates with a high level of interactive communication, demonstrating high levels of inclusion and cultural sensitivity.

The role will partner with Sr. Business Partners/Business Partners, taking ownership to deliver high quality arguments, business process designs and ensure that proposed solutions meet established AstraZeneca quality and compliance standards and business solution needs.

The Business Analyst will share standard methodologies in relevant communities of practice, supplying to internal IT processes and standards for business analysis and design.

The Business Analyst is expected to perform at Advanced level in the following:

• Understand and prioritize business requirements from multiple collaborators applying specialist knowledge where applicable. Proactively seeks out opportunities to enhance and improve in line with strategic goals.
• Interpret business requirements and simplify them for easy analysis, solution design and decision making to positively impact/tackle medium risks/issues. Effectively communicate impact, cost and benefits of new and changed demands
• Provide insight & innovation to projects within own specialist area, aligning to AZ IT strategy and working with AZ IT partners
• Work with Site Leadership Teams and other regional/site collaborators including BPOs to propose and deliver solutions to achieve agreed outcomes, ensuring that solutions fulfil their future strategic needs and challenges. Shape and define arguments, producing detailed business justification for investment including value and benefits realization.
• Work with colleagues across the BTG and C4Es, (e.g., architects and engineers) within the function to identify the capabilities required to ensure outcomes/requirements and clearly understood and can be delivered. Work with Process/Product owners to identify and devise solutions that optimize business process performance, capability, and competitiveness.
• Facilitate and lead design sessions with the business and implementation team to identify functional and technical requirements
• Defining project scope and goals for small projects that deliver or support delivery of effective solutions. Setting a budget and schedule. Hands on leadership, planning, coordination, and delivery of aspects of key projects, including facilitation of meetings, tracking, reporting and communicating progress, as well as risks and issues as necessary.
• Hands on leadership, planning, coordination, and delivery of leading small projects or segments of large innovative international projects, applying specialist knowledge in one subject area. Capable of planning and leading their own and other team member’s activities to meet work and deadlines.
• Collate information from relevant sources for analysis and reporting relevant data trends for informed decision making for positive business impact.
• Connect with the relevant collaborators and transfer relevant knowledge to delivery teams, i.e., translation using levels of interactive communication and influencing skills. Contributes to communication plans and change management for project and customers.
• Supports business for service tracking/issues/problems/incidents, as well as with IT satisfaction and improvements. Captures delivery feedback from customers.

Required Education, Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:

• 5 years experience as a Business Analyst, Technical Analyst, or similar field
• Bachelor's Degree
• Demonstrable experience of optimally deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
• Demonstrable experience of working with complex integrated systems, using creative and critical thinking to deliver exceptional results
• Strong engagement, communication and collaborator management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
• Experience of working in a regulated environment
• Experience of virtual collaboration to lead, shape and develop innovative solutions
• Experience of mentoring, coaching or developing others
• Experience of working with and managing third party suppliers/vendors
• Discernment
• Challenge, negotiation and influence
• Presentation, Communication & Facilitation
• Customer Focus
• Collaborator Management
• Benefits Management and Realisation
• Networking
• Compliance
• Planning
• Business Process Management
• Requirements Management

Desireable Skills:

• Degree in relevant field or formal certification in business analysis practice
• Lean SIGMA training
• Practical usage of Agile Methodology
• Experience of working in a global organisation with complex/geographical context
• Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge
• Cross industry business awareness/business domain knowledge
• User Centred Design (User Experience, User Interface Design and Business Process Design)

Key Relationships to Reach Solutions:

Third Party suppliers/Vendors (Service and project delivery managers and external service providers), Regulatory Agencies

WHY JOIN US:

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.

SO, WHAT's NEXT?

Are you up for an exciting challenge and ready for making a difference? If so, hit Apply today - we can't wait to hear from you!