Associate Director, Business Process Engineer
Location: Barcelona, Spain (On-site) / 3 days working from the office.
About the Department
Sustainable, FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Reusable) data is integral to AstraZeneca's mission as a science-driven pharmaceutical company, serving as a cornerstone for the corporate strategy. The incorporation of Data, AI, and Digital technologies is a foundational value driver for innovative science and a potential differentiator in the corporate landscape.
AstraZeneca’s R&D Data Office is at the forefront of enabling data and AI strategies. It provides comprehensive data services, technology solutions, and data products, underpinned by robust data and AI policy and governance, to extract value from data that propels innovative scientific discovery.
Focused on impacting the R&D pipeline, the Data Office emphasizes three core areas: advancing data and AI-powered scientific innovation, connecting a digitized R&D value chain, and pioneering best practices in data and AI governance.
The Position
The Business Process Engineer will be an integral part of Data Office’s Solution Delivery & Transformation team, tasked with upscaling and improving R&D’s data sharing ecosystem and delivery of data services. This ecosystem facilitates efficient and compliant sharing of data within and beyond AstraZeneca to empower the innovative science driving R&D drug development. A core part of this ecosystem are business processes that are being reimagined to achieve greater speed, user experience, simplicity and scale. This will include a shift from manual, to automatedand AI-enabled processing and will cover both ‘back-office’ processes associated to data management, governance, creation of AI and analytics-ready data, and also‘front office’ processes that data consumers (e.g. data scientists) require.
The Business Process Engineer is crucial to the development of high-quality processes. This position will suit highly collaborative,technically skilledand subject matter experts, capable of independently planning and taking a lead on business process improvement projects. Day-to-day, this will involve understanding business requirements, working collaboratively to analyse and delivernewly proposed data andbusiness process flowsand supporting project teams to reach agreements that can take proposals to production.
The Impact
As an essential rolewithin our transformation team, the Business Process Engineer will directly support the introduction of a data sharing ecosystem thatcan harness the full potential data to meet the increasing demands of a rapidly evolving AI-enabled landscape central to the continued successful speed of scientific innovation and delivery of the
Typical Accountabilities
Analyse and evaluate current processes to identify inefficiencies, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
Design and document new processes, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and compliance standards.
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholdersto gather requirements and insights needed for effective and optimalprocess creation
Apply best practice in process analysis, development and optimisation activities and promote best practice across the Data Office
Using best practice and notation, create process flow diagrams, and associated guidance documentation to communicate workflows and practices clearly.
Conduct workshops and training sessions to ensure stakeholders understand newly developed processes.
Utilize data analysis techniques to support process layout and validation, as well as to identify bottlenecks.
Utilise best practice BA techniques around process requirement analysis
Test and validate new processes to ensure they operate effectively before handover to operational teams.
Collaborate with IT and data management teams to ensure that technical solutions support the created processes.
Education, Qualifications, and Experience
Essential
Advanced degree (MSc) or higher in related subject,or equivalent professional skills
Professional certification in Business or Process Analysisfrom a recognised bodye.g. IIBA or BCS
Significant experience with Business Process Analysis, Design, Rollout, andOptimisation, both in creating new processes and uplifting existing ones.
Significant experience using BPMN to develop and document processes, using standard IT tooling
Experience planning and running design workshops with cross functional team
Strong engagement, communication and partner management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
Experience working on projects in a complex global organization, including collaborating cross-functionally to deliver against objectives.
Awareness of latest data and technology trends
Desirable
PhD in related subject
Pharmaceutical or life sciences industry experience, specifically in R&D
Experience within a Data focussed team
Experience in the fields of Data Governance, Data Privacy and Data Access
Experience using GB TECHBIC platform for storing processes
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