Lead Consultant - Business Analyst

Job Title: Lead Consultant - Business Analyst

Career Level -E

Introduction to role

The Business Analyst performs business analysis and design to support supply chain tolling. The primary area of accountability will be in global and regional tolling processes and system integrations. The Business Analyst will either deliver the business change activities alone or as a member or lead of a BA team in the program. The Business Analyst operates with a high level of interactive communication, demonstrating high levels of inclusion and cultural sensitivity.

The role will take ownership to deliver high-quality business cases, business process designs, and ensure that proposed solutions meet established AstraZeneca quality and compliance standards and business solution needs.

The Business Analyst will share best practices in relevant communities of practice, contributing to internal IT processes and standards for business analysis and design.

Accountabilities

The Business Analyst is expected to perform at an advanced level in the following:

• Understand and prioritize business requirements from multiple stakeholders 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 and deliver solutions to achieve agreed outcomes, ensuring that solutions fulfill their future strategic needs and challenges. Shape and define reasons, 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. Setting a budget and schedule. Hands-on leadership, planning, coordination, and delivery of aspects of key projects, including facilitation of meetings, tracking, reporting, and presenting progress, as well as risks and issues as necessary.

• Hands-on leadership, planning, coordination, and delivery of leading small projects or segments of large ground breaking international projects, applying specialist knowledge in one subject area. Capable of planning and handling their own and other team members’ activities to meet work you're doing 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 customers and transfer relevant knowledge to delivery teams, i.e., translation using levels of interactive communication and influencing skills. Supplies to communication plans and change management for project and collaborators.

• Supports business for service tracking/issues/problems/incidents, as well as with IT satisfaction and improvements. Captures delivery feedback from customers.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Experience in relevant modules of SAP ECC (MM, SD) and corresponding business processes (P2P, SOTC)

• Demonstrable experience of optimally deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change

• Demonstrable experience of working with sophisticated coordinated systems, using creative and critical thinking to deliver exceptional results

• Strong engagement, communication, and collaborator management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills

• Experience of working in a regulated environment (GXP, SOX)

• Experience of virtual partnership to lead, shape, and develop innovative solutions

• Experience of mentoring, coaching or developing others

• Experience of working with and running third-party suppliers/vendors

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Degree in relevant discipline or formal certification in business analysis practice

• Understanding of Sophisticated Planning Systems (Supply Planning incl. internal subcontracting processes)

• Practical usage of Agile Methodology

• Experience of working in a global organization with complex/geographical context

• Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge

• Cross-industry business awareness/business domain knowledge

• User-Centered Design (User Experience, User Interface Design, and Business Process Design)

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash ambitious 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, you will have the chance to define an impact on society through our sustainability goals. Contribute to making a difference beyond patients by pioneering AstraZeneca's sustainability strategy. Be a key contributor to Zero Carbon by 2025 and carbon negative across the entire value chain by 2030. Everyone can chip in towards our collective legacy of doing good for people, the environment, and society.

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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.