About Astrazeneca
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 are 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 medicine, patients, and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, always committed to lifelong learning, growth, and development.
About Operations IT
At AstraZeneca, we work together across global boundaries to make an impact and find answers to challenges. We do this with the utmost integrity even in the most difficult situations because we are committed to doing the right thing. We continuously forge partnerships that help pursue world-class medicines in new ways, combining our people’s outstanding skills with those of people from all over the globe. As a Business Analyst in Manufacturing and Operations, you’ll play a pivotal role in channeling our scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients’ lives. IT provides support and solutions globally, solves complex operational and business challenges, enables innovation, and increases growth by bridging Information Technology and science with superior technical expertise.
About The Role
The AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center is the largest biologics manufacturing facility within the company’s global network and a worldwide industry leader in cell culture manufacturing. The facility is an FDA licensed, large-scale cell culture production facility.
This position will join the Customer Facing IT (CFIT) Team at the AstraZeneca Frederick Manufacturing Center. The CFIT Team is accountable for the services provided by the AstraZeneca IT (AZ IT) organization to the facility.
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/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 BTG partners to propose and deliver solutions to achieve agreed outcomes, ensuring that solutions fulfill 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 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 team to identify functional and technical requirements.
- Define project scope and goals for small projects that deliver or support delivery of effective solutions. Set 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 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 collaborators and transfer relevant knowledge to delivery teams, i.e., translation using levels of interactive communication and influencing skills. Contributes to communication plans and organizational change for project and collaborators.
- Support business for service tracking/issues/problems/incidents, as well as with IT satisfaction and improvements. Capture delivery feedback from customers.
Job Requirements
- 5 Years of experience as a Business Analyst
- Bachelor's Degree
- Previous experience working in a pharmaceutical or life sciences background or equivalent
- Demonstrable experience of successfully managing IT projects end to end, both waterfall and agile
- Demonstrable experience of working with complex integrated systems, using creative and critical thinking to deliver exceptional results
- Strong engagement, communication, and customer management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
- Experience of working in a regulated environment
- Experience of virtual teamwork to lead, shape and develop innovative solutions
- Experience of mentoring, coaching or developing others
- Experience of working with and managing third party suppliers/vendors
WHY JOIN US?
We’re a network of entrepreneurial self-starters who chip in to something far bigger. There’s a diversity of expertise in our Technology group that’s unique to AstraZeneca – it allows us to dive deep into exploring new innovative technology. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering world-class technology and data solutions. Our work unlocks the potential of science. We optimize and evolutionize AstraZeneca by maximizing efficiencies and finding new ways to drive productivity. From automation to data simplification. We’re not afraid to take ownership and run with it. Empowered with unrivalled freedom. A place to be open and transparent – we speak up, think creatively and share ideas. Our diverse contributions help us to make better decisions. But we have a constant aim to innovate and an appreciation for high standards. It takes challenging the status quo to contribute in our ever-evolving environment. We love it here because, put simply, we make a relevant impact.
Technology at AstraZeneca is a home for purposeful disruptors!
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 four 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.
SO, WHAT’S NEXT?
Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we’d love to hear from you! Click the link to apply, and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.
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