IT Quality Management Regional Lead 

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven BioPharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. 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 ambitious spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to patients, society and the planet.

As an IT Quality Management Associate Director, you’ll work in the IT Quality & Compliance team of the Strategy, Performance & Quality Function in Global IT. This role is crucial to accelerating our compliance efforts as we integrate new technologies, like AI, that require a fundamental rethinking of compliance capabilities, frameworks, and delivery mechanisms to ensure all IT projects and services achieve compliance.You will also optimise utilisation, managing engagement of resources in the most effective way and driving knowledge sharing and innovation.

Typical Accountabilities

As an IT Quality Management Associate Director, you will lead a regional team of Quality Management professionalsto ensure that our IT systems and services are compliant, reliable, and ready for inspections. You will work across the full lifecycle and value chain, delivering compliant projects and servicesreporting to a Director of IT Quality Management. You will be responsible forleading, managing and developing a high performing team of Global IT Quality Management professionals, as well as supporting the broader IT QM leadership team to develop the skills and capabilities for the future across the full QM organisation.

In collaboration with the QM LT, you will drive excellence and simplification in the design of our internal processes for supporting inspection readiness, ensuring adherence to standards and data principles.

Using initiative and a self-driven approach to identify and deliver continuous improvement opportunities, the lead will be expected to:

• Ensure that all IT systems used by sites remain compliant throughout their lifecycle, with the relevant compliance policies, standards and government regulations.

• Drive and deliver improvements in our Compliance performance through Lean and automation to continuously improve Quality Management services.

• Utilise effective education and training to help protect our LtO and embed a compliance culture.

• Own and embed the quality management planning approach and processes ensuring that organisational and supplier compliance risks are identified, assessed, and mitigated in support of AZ's license to operate.

• Identify, communicate, and manage trends in operational compliance risks, breaches, and issues, ensuring CAPA to mitigate the risks are discussed and agreed with Stakeholders

• Drive accountability across IT through effective planning, governance and Operational Healthreporting of key compliance metrics and measures by interpreting Quality insights for senior stakeholders

• Provide compliance input to the preparation for internal management reviews, external regulatory and internal AZ inspections as required.

• Drive the continuous monitoring, improvement and digitisation of our processes, services and tools, through applying LEAN thinking and techniques, and exploiting tools and automation.

• Apply specialist knowledge to support strategic thinking around how to manage compliance activities in the IT organisation.

• Utilise your depth of industry and compliance experience to provide direction to programme/project/service managers and system owners, in the development of a risk-based approach for the delivery of compliant IT solutions.

• Collaborate closely with the QM LT to ensure the provision of appropriate QM resource capability and capacityin line with customer expectations, IT strategy and the needs of AZ.

• Ensure capability within the team to deliver high quality IT QM project and system deliverables to support external regulatory inspections.

• Work with the wider Quality Management team to ensure changes to processes and accountabilities align to, and are compatible with, the AZ IT Policies and Standards