Business Analyst, Operations IT

📌Positions are open to Mexican Citizens and official residents of Mexico.
📍Location: Guadalajara (hybrid)
📌Strong English communication skills required

Must Submit Resume in English

About the AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused pharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At Astra Zeneca, we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to work!

Job Description

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 alone be delivering the business change activities; 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 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 standard processes in relevant communities of practice, chipping in to internal IT processes and standards for business analysis and design.

Accountabilities

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

• Understand and prioritize business requirements from multiple partners 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. Efficiently 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 fulfil their future strategic needs and challenges. Shape and define cases, 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 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.
• Facilitate and lead design sessions with the business and implementation team to identify functional and technical requirements.
• Defining 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 vital.
• Hands on leadership, planning, coordination, and delivery of leading small projects or segments of large innovative international projects, applying specialist knowledge in one subject area. Capable of planning and handling their own and other team member’s 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.
• Connect with the relevant customers and transfer relevant knowledge to delivery teams, i.e., translation using levels of interactive communication and influencing skills. Chips in to communication plans and organisational change for project and collaborators.
• Supports business for service tracking/issues/problems/incidents, as well as with IT satisfaction and improvements. Brings together delivery feedback from customers.

Requirements

• Experience in relevant modules of SAP ECC (MM, SD) and corresponding business processes (P2P, SOTC)
• Shown experience of optimally deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
• Shown experience of working with sophisticated integrated systems, using creative and critical thinking to deliver exceptional results
• Strong engagement, communication and customer leadership skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
• Experience of working in a regulated environment (GXP, SOX)
• Experience of virtual teamwork to lead, shape and develop innovative solutions
• Experience of mentoring, coaching or developing others
• Experience of working with and handling third party suppliers/vendors
• Business insight
• Challenge, negotiation and influence
• Presentation, Communication & Facilitation
• Customer Focus
• Customer Management
• Benefits Management and Realisation
• Networking
• Compliance
• Planning
• Business Process Management
• Requirements Management

Desirable

• Degree or equivalent experience in relevant field 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 organisation with sophisticated/geographical context
• Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge
• Cross industry business awareness/business domain knowledge

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being daring - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering innovative methods and bringing unexpected teams together.

So, what’s next!

Are you already envisioning yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

Where can I find out more?

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AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer.

AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or parental leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law. AstraZeneca only employs individuals with the right to work in the country/ies where the role is advertised.

Expectation of working in the office 3 days a week statement

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we ignite bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working give 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 outstanding and bold world!!!

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.