Job Description

Job Title: Lead Consultant - Business Analyst
Career level - E
Introduction to role
Are you ready to disrupt an industry and change lives? As a Lead Consultant - Business Analyst, you'll play a pivotal role in transforming our supply chain tolling processes. Your expertise will drive global and regional system integrations, ensuring high-quality business cases and process designs that meet AstraZeneca's standards. Whether working independently or leading a team, your interactive communication skills and cultural sensitivity will be key to delivering impactful business change activities. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare through innovative solutions and best practices.
Accountabilities
What you'll do:

• 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 business cases, producing detailed business justification for investment including ROI 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. Set 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 cutting-edge 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 in relevant modules of SAP ECC (MM, SD) and corresponding business processes (P2P, SOTC)
• Proven experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
• Proven experience of working with complex integrated systems, using creative and strategic thinking to deliver exceptional results
• Strong engagement, communication and stakeholder 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
• Business acumen
• Challenge, negotiation and influence
• Presentation, Communication & Facilitation
• Customer Focus
• Stakeholder Management
• Benefits Management and Realisation
• Networking
• Compliance
• Planning
• Business Process Management
• Requirements Management

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Degree in relevant discipline or formal certification in business analysis practice
• Understanding of Advanced Planning Systems (Supply Planning incl. internal subcontracting processes)
• Practical usage of Agile Methodology
• Experience of working in a global organisation with complex/geographical context
• Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge
• Cross industry business awareness/business domain knowledge
• User Centred 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.
At AstraZeneca, we couple technology with an inclusive mindset to cross international boundaries and develop a leading ecosystem. Our diverse teams work collaboratively at scale, bringing together the best minds globally to uncover new solutions. We think holistically about applying technology, building partnerships inside and out to drive simplicity and efficiencies that make a real difference. Here you can innovate, take ownership, experiment with leading-edge technology, and tackle challenges that have never been addressed before.
Ready to make an impact? Apply now to join our dynamic team!
Date Posted 02-May-2025
Closing Date 08-May-2025
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 authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.