Business Analyst - Operations And It

Are you experienced in, and passionate about IT leadership? Consider applying your expertise to impact the delivery of innovative business solutions to build maximum competitive advantage in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? AstraZeneca might be the one for you!
At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being daring, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you're our kind of person.
The Ops IT Hybrid Business Analyst (BA) performs a multi-functional role as both a Business Analyst as well as a Project Manager. This role can either act alone delivering small to medium size business change activities; or as a member or lead of a BA team in a large or global business change. The BA role operates with a high level of interactive communication, demonstrating high levels of inclusion and cultural sensitivity.
The role will partner with Sr. Business Partners/Business Partners, taking ownership to deliver high quality arguments, business process designs and ensure that proposed solutions meet established AstraZeneca quality and compliance standards and business solution needs.
The Business Analyst will share standard methodologies in relevant communities of practice, contributing to internal IT processes and standards for business analysis and design.
The Business Analyst is encouraged to fulfill the following duties:

• Understanding and prioritizing business requirements from multiple customers, applying specialist knowledge where applicable. Proactively seek out opportunities to enhance and improve business services in line with strategic goals.
• Interpreting and simplifying business requirements for easy analysis, solution design and decision making to positively impact/tackle Business risks and issues.
• Optimally communicate impact, cost and benefits of new and changed demands
• Providing insight & innovation to projects within own specialist area, aligning to AZ IT strategy and working with AZ IT partners
• Working with Site Leadership Teams and other regional/site collaborators including BPOs to propose and deliver solutions to achieve agreed outcomes, ensuring solutions fulfil the Business' future strategic needs
• Shape and define cases, producing detailed business justification for investment including value and benefits realization.
• Working with colleagues across the IT capability teams (e.g., architects and engineers) to identify the capabilities required to ensure outcomes/requirements and clearly understood and can be delivered. Work with Process/Product owners to identify and devise solutions that optimize business process performance, capability, and competitiveness.
• Facilitating and leading design sessions with the business and implementation team to identify functional and technical requirements
• Collating information from relevant sources for analysis and reporting relevant data trends for informed decision making for positive business impact.
• Communicating 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 for project and collaborators.

As a Business Analyst, there is an expectation to perform at a Moderate level in the following areas:

• Defining project scope and goals for small projects that deliver or support delivery of effective solutions. Setting a budget and schedule.
• Providing 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 needed.
• Be capable of planning and managing their own and other team member's activities to meet work and deadlines.
• Supporting business delivery feedback from customers.

Required Education, Qualifications, and Experience:

• 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Project Manager, or equivalent
• Bachelor's Degree
• Demonstrable experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
• Demonstrable experience of working with coordinated systems, using creative and critical thinking to deliver outstanding results
• Strong engagement, communication and customer management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
• Experience of working in a regulated environment
• Experience of virtual collaboration to lead, shape and develop innovative solutions
• Experience of working with and managing third party suppliers/vendors
• PMP or equivalent certification
• Discernment
• Ability to navigate complex organizations to find the right expertise to support initiatives
• Benefits Management and Realisation
• Evidence of work with Compliance and Planning
• Business Process Management
• Requirements Management

Preferred Education, Qualifications, and Experience

• Degree in relevant field or formal certification in business analysis practice
• AGILE Project Management Certification and practical usage of Agile Methodology
• SCRUM Master Certification
• Lean SIGMA training
• Experience of working in a global organisation with sophisticated/geographical context
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing awareness/business domain knowledge
• Cross industry business awareness/business domain knowledge
• Experience of mentoring, coaching, or developing others
• Experience working with SAP and manufacturing-related modules.
• User Centred Design (User Experience, User Interface Design and Business Process Design)
• Familiar with working in ServiceNow tool

WHY JOIN US:
Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth. Focused and committed, and backed with the investment to succeed, we're driving cross-company change to disrupt the entire industry.
SO, WHAT NEXT?
Are you up for an exciting challenge and ready for making a difference? If so, hit Apply today - we can't wait to hear from you!
Date Posted
31-Jul-2023
Closing Date
AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
AstraZeneca requires all US employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 but will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.