Senior Data Analytics Consultant - Operations IT

Competitive Salary & Benefit package

At AstraZeneca, patients are at the heart of everything we do.

A global company that pushes the boundaries of science, we all share a big purpose: to discover and develop life-changing medicines that save lives.

In Operations IT we focus solely on performance and strategy – leading transformation and innovation and managing the development of new solutions. Collaborative and personable, we’re constantly liaising with multiple teams to understand their needs, monitor performance, and communicate changes. From system owners to system delivery teams, we’re the connected hub that drives things forward.

The Insights Analyst will direct the preparation of data driven insights for business decision makers to help develop business intelligence, optimise efficiency and/or predict business outcomes. The role will drive the analysis of data to support the business processes they are enabling (e.g. Supply Chain, manufacturing, Quality, etc.) and through analysis specify reports and data visualisations (e.g., charts, dashboards, heat maps) to aid in data storytelling within defined project scope. The role employs the use of dedicated business intelligence applications and may also use analytical software such as R, Python, Dataiku and others. They may build and maintain exploratory and predictive analytics statistical models for ongoing and ad hoc review and analysis of data.

What you'll do

• Be visible on internal social media promoting analytics, showcasing benefits and driving adoption of the AZ analytics platforms.

• Develop, implement and support analytical and data visualisation solutions designed to drive the interrogation of datasets for insights in business application areas within defined project scope.

• Build and manage effective relationships within the business to ensure utilisation and value of information resources and services. Clearly and objectively communicate results, as well as their associated uncertainties and limitations

• Advise on exploratory, descriptive and predictive data analytics to a variety of projects and shape delivery of solutions that drive business value

• Develop and apply ongoing knowledge and awareness in trends, standard methodology and new developments in analytics to develop solutions

• Develop and input into data and analytics strategies

• Review and develop working practices to ensure that work is delivered to robust quality standards within defined scope

• Deliver training and advice to collaborators on efficient use of key data and analysis

Essential for the role

• Demonstrated skills and experience of promoting and marketing of previous data analytic and visualisation projects ideally via videos and social media.

• Good understanding of at least one business area from either Supply Chain or manufacturing

• Demonstrates previous experience in bridging the gap between IT and the business using data analytics to assess processes, determine requirements and deliver data driven recommendations and reports to the business.

• Familiarity with visualisation tools and database systems, technical minded and self driven to learn AZ standard tooling.

• Senior business engagement experience

• Experience of defining data and analytics strategies

• Advanced ability to draw conclusions from data and communicate in a succinct fashion to the business.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, business analysis, and consultancy skills

• Bachelors Degree in relevant field or equivalent years of experience

Desirable for the role

• Masters degree in data & Analytics, mathematics, computer science, statistics or a related quantitative field.

• Comfortable working in high performance computing or cloud environment

• Experience in life sciences and healthcare

• Knowledge of Hadoop, apache spark, R, big data technologies

• Knowledge of database and visualisation tools, ideally Qliksense, PowerBI, Python or SQL

Advert Opening Date: 20 January 2021 / Advert closing date: 31st January 2021

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.