Business Analyst - 18 Month Secondment/FTC

Job Title: Business Analyst - 18 Month Secondment/FTC

Location: Macclesfield

Competitive Salary and Compensation

Introduction to role

The Business Analyst performs business analysis and design to support global OMP detailed scheduling deployment. 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 responsibility to deliver high-quality arguments, 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.

Accountabilities

The Business Analyst is encouraged to perform at an advanced level or equivalent experience in the following:

• Understand and prioritize business requirements from multiple collaborators using specialist knowledge when necessary. 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 arguments, crafting detailed 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 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 brand new international projects, applying specialist knowledge in one subject area. Capable of planning and managing their own and other team members’ activities to meet deliverables 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 stakeholders and transfer relevant knowledge to delivery teams, i.e., translation using levels of interactive communication and influencing skills. Contributes to communication plans and change management for project and stakeholders.
• Support business for service tracking/issues/problems/incidents, as well as with IT satisfaction and improvements. Capture delivery feedback from customers.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Experience with supply and production planning processes in process industries
• Experience with Detailed Scheduling of planned/process orders e.g. SAP PPPI, SAP APO PP/DS, OMP Operational Planning
• Experience with SAP Recipes, BOMs, Production Versions, Resources, Calendars, Capacities, and relevant scheduling parameters
• Demonstrable experience in effectively deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
• Proven experience of working with complex coordinated systems, using creative and critical thinking to deliver outstanding 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 collaboration to lead, shape, and develop innovative solutions
• Experience of mentoring, coaching or developing others
• Experience of working with and managing third-party suppliers/vendors

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience of deploying APS solution, especially OMP
• Experience with shopfloor/manufacturing execution systems and integration into SAP
• Degree or equivalent experience in relevant field or formal certification in business analysis practice
• 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 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 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.

AstraZeneca is at the forefront of digital transformation in healthcare. By uniting our technologies, tools, platforms with our collective expertise, we drive our transformational journey forward. This enables us to better interpret data and make informed decisions that positively impact patients across the globe.

Ready to make a difference? Apply now!

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.