Lead Consultant - Business Analyst

Job Title: Lead Consultant - Business Analyst

Career level - E

Introduction to role

Are you ready to disrupt an industry and change lives? As a Lead Consultant - Business Analyst you'll play a vital role in AstraZeneca’s ambitious growth plans, working on AZ’s major investment projects around the globe, expanding existing manufacturing sites and building new greenfield sites to supply the medicines of the future. Your expertise will be used to ensure that we have the right IT to operate the manufacturing facilities to produce the medicines required by patients around the world. This will include integrating the sites into the supply chain, ensuring the quality of what’s produced, capturing data from the shop floor, driving productivity improvements, and all in a company that is at the innovative of using digital technology to deliver exceptional value. Whether working independently or leading a team of experts, your communication skills and cultural sensitivity will be key to delivering impactful business cases that make a real difference. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare through innovative solutions and standard processes.

Accountabilities

What you’ll do:

• Understand and prioritize business requirements from multiple stake holders 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/solve 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 business and IT partners to propose solutions to achieve agreed outcomes, ensuring that solutions meet future strategic needs and challenges. Defining and estimating business cases, producing detailed business justification for investment 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 are 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 teams to identify functional and technical requirements.
• Define project scope, resources, costs, and timeline for the IT projects that form part of a wider investment programme. 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 managing 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.
• Communicate with the relevant stake holders 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 stakeholders.
• Contribute to driving up the performance and productivity of the team, improving ways of working, and bringing in new technology to help the team be more effective.

Essential Skills/Experience

• 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Project Management, or equivalent
• Experience of deploying IT solutions in a pharmaceutical, FMCG, chemical, or other manufacturing environment
• Demonstrable experience of successfully 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 stake holder management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
• Experience of working in a regulated environment (GxP, SoX)
• Experience of virtual collaboration to lead, shape and develop innovative solutions
• Experience of working with and managing third party suppliers/vendors
• Business process competence
• Experience of cost, resource, and timeline estimation for projects
• Presentation, communication & facilitation skills
• Customer focus and stake holder management
• Ability to navigate complex organizations to find the right expertise to support initiatives
• A broad understanding of how IT technology works and is used

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in relevant field or formal certification in business analysis or project management practice
• Demonstrable experience of successfully using project management tools/techniques to enable business change
• Experience of global working across geographies and time-zones
• Experience of working in a global organisation with complex/geographical context
• Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge
• Cross industry business awareness/business domain knowledge
• Experience of mentoring, coaching or developing others
• Experience of working with SAP modules or Manufacturing Execution Systems
• Experience of utilising advanced digital technologies to deliver value
• Membership of external professional bodies, business organisations, strategy forums etc.
• Business process modelling
• Experience of IT/OT systems integration

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, we couple technology with an inclusive mentality to cross international boundaries and develop a leading ecosystem. Our diverse teams work closely at scale, bringing together the best minds globally to uncover new solutions. We think holistically about applying technology, building partnerships inside and out to drive simplicity and efficiencies that make a real difference. Here you can innovate, take ownership, experiment with innovative technology, and tackle challenges that have never been addressed before.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now to join our dynamic team!