Corporate Affairs Generalist – Global Corporate Affairs

This role is part of Global Corporate Affairs (GCA) at AstraZeneca, supporting key projects and initiatives within the Global Policy, Advocacy & Health Equity (PAHE) organization through project-focused administration, coordination, and connectivity.

You will contribute to helping AstraZeneca turn ideas into life‑changing medicines by ensuring smooth project operations, enabling team effectiveness, andmaintaininghigh standardsof accuracy, efficiency, and presentation. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big, collaborating across teams, and bringing a “whatever it takes” attitude to make the impossible a reality.

You will draw on your experience, insight, and judgement to manage multiple workstreams in a dynamic environment, proactively flagging risks and dependencies, and recommending solutions within operational guidelines. Acting both proactively and reactively, you will keep stakeholders updated and briefed onemergingissues,maintainingmomentum and connectivity across PAHE projects.

Your proactive nature toanticipatechallenges, and your understanding of AstraZeneca’s business goals, organization, and people will help you be effective in your role. You will work with peers across AstraZeneca’s global teams, includingadminassistants of senior leaders, project coordinators, and leaders in GCA and adjacent areas.Your responsibilities include:

• Project Administration and Coordination:Ensure PAHE projects run smoothly through disciplined coordination, documentation, and progress tracking;maintainplans, action logs and milestone trackers,scheduleand support project meetings; keep assets organized and accessible.

• Cross-Project Connectivity and Stakeholder Communication:Create connectivity across PAHE and adjacent teams, enabling aligned timelines and consistent messaging. Align interdependencies and timelines across projects; coordinate updates with project leads and partners; prepare concise briefings, slides, charts, and status reports tailored to different audiences; manage information flow to reduce duplication and ensure clarity.

• Team Agenda and People Enablement:Support PAHE team effectiveness through structured agendas forteam meeting,capability building and talent planning, in close coordination with line managers and leadership teams. Facilitate onboardings of new team members as relevant to core projects.

• Meetings, Workshops, and Exhibitions Operations.Provide end-to-endlogisticsfor virtual andinpersonengagements to enable highquality delivery.For major events,worksindependently and/or with event teams to manage invites, calendars, venues/platforms,support content-owners in the preparation ofmaterials, participant briefings, and run-of-show;handleposteventactions and documentation; ensurehigh standardsof accuracy, timeliness, and presentation.

• Process, Tools, Budget, and Procurement Support.Standardize ways of working andmaintainaccurateproject-level financial records in partnership with finance. Implement and improve use of MS Office, Teams, SharePoint, and project trackers; raise purchase requests and coordinate vendors; track expenditures against project budgets;maintainrecords for auditability; ensure adherence to the AstraZeneca Global Code of Conduct and relevant policies.

Skills and Capabilities Required:

• Proven experience asAA/PA tosenior leaders in a large, complex, international organizationor experienced project coordinator

• Excellent secretarial skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment whilst proactively,efficientlyand accurately managing a demanding workload

• Exceptional planning and organizing skills, witha strong senseof urgency balanced by a good judgement of priorities

• Collaborative team player, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills 

• Confidentcommunicatingat all levels and across various cultures internally and externally

• Maintain highest levels ofconfidentiality,discretion,tactand diplomacy

• Financial management/ controlling

• Project management

• Systemsproficiency: Ability toidentifyandleverageappropriate ITsystems and procedures (e.g., MS Office, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, project trackers) to achieve results.

• Havehigh levelsof resilience and be self-motivated

• Flexible,proactiveand open toaccommodateall duties, andexceedexpectations

• Fluency in English 

Education, Qualifications and Training Required:

• A-level standard or equivalent education

• Administrative or secretarial qualifications (or equivalent experience)demonstratingstrong organizational and communication foundations

• Excellent knowledge of MS office, Outlook, Calendar, PowerPoint and web-based systems, good knowledge ofExcel