Manager, Business Planning

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to turn data-driven planning into measurable impact for patients and the planet? As Manager, Business Planning, you will enable our Development, Regulatory & Safety (DRS) teams to make faster, smarter decisions by bringing precision to resourcing and carbon management, and by ensuring strategic workforce initiatives deliver real, quantified benefits.

In this role you will partner closely with R&D leaders to keep our carbon utilization within globally allocated targets while building clear, reliable mechanisms to track and measure Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) initiatives. Your work will sharpen visibility, close gaps, and keep critical projects on pace. Can you navigate time-sensitive decisions, align leaders around the numbers, and translate metrics into clear actions that move the business?

You will thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed environment where priorities shift, deadlines are tight, and operational rigor matters. By establishing strong stakeholder relationships and introducing automation where it counts, you will create durable systems that scale and improve how our teams plan, execute, and deliver.

Accountabilities:

- DRS Headcount Management: Own the headcount management process for DRS by proactively tracking headcount requests against budget and forecasts, analyzing headount development, location , grade and manpower cost development against target.

- Carbon Management Leadership: Own the carbon management agenda for DRS by proactively tracking actuals against targets, analyzing utilization trends, and proposing target allocations to close gaps.

- Approval and Governance Execution: Coordinate and submit conference attendee requests to secure timely approvals that keep projects and engagements on track.

- System Stewardship: Maintain and improve the DRS carbon management system and processes to ensure accuracy, transparency, and audit-ready records.

- SWP Performance Tracking: Design and implement a system and process to track SWP initiatives with expected benefits, timelines, and responsible owners, ensuring outcomes are visible and actionable.

- Benefits Realization: Partner with DRS functions to measure real-world implementation and quantify actual benefits versus plan, driving course corrections where needed.

- Process Automation and Innovation: Identify and deliver automation opportunities that streamline repetitive steps, reduce cycle time, and improve data quality.

- Training and Enablement: Develop and implement clear, engaging training materials to embed new processes and knowledge at scale.

- Stakeholder Partnership: Build trusted relationships across functions, balancing urgency with service, and ensuring leaders have the insights they need to act.

Essential Skills/Experience:

- Experience working with Smartsheet and PowerBI

- Good level of multi-tasking ability; able to learn quickly in a fast paced, matrixed environment

- Strong customer service skills!

- Ability to solve problems and follow-up on urgent matters in a timely manner

- Ability to organize data into accessible reports and perform several types of analysis using key metrics

- The duties of this role are generally conducted in an office environment. As is typical of an office-based role, employees must be able, with or without an accommodation to: use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

- High level of business and organizational skills

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Ability to effectively present information and assist others

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.

Why AstraZeneca:

Here you will shape outcomes that matter—combining the pace and autonomy of a biotech mindset with the scale and stability of a global biopharma. We bring unexpected teams together to spark new ideas, keep close to the lived realities of patients, and raise the bar for how we protect our people and our planet. You will be encouraged to take ownership, build new skills, and stretch beyond your lane, supported by leaders who value kindness alongside ambition. Your contribution will translate directly into better decisions, faster delivery, and tangible impact across science, sustainability, and patient care.

Call to Action:

If you are ready to lead with data and purpose, send your application today and help us turn metrics into meaningful outcomes for patients and the planet!

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Annual base salary for this position ranges from 94,820.80 to 124,452.30.

AstraZeneca is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The range provided in this posting represents an offer pay range used in a majority of situations. The base pay offered will vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, and other specific business and organizational needs.  In some cases, offers outside the range may also be considered to address unique circumstances.

In addition, our permanent positions offer an annual Variable Pay Bonus/Short Term Incentive opportunity as well as eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (if applicable to role).  Benefits offered for permanent roles include a competitive Flex Benefits & Retirement Savings Program, 4 weeks’ paid vacation, and annual Personal Days. Fixed Term Contract/Temporary positions (excluding students) are offered a Contract Benefits Program.

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