Job Description

Job Title: Lead Consultant - Business Analyst
Introduction to role
GCL: E
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 ability to develop life-changing medicines. You'll be responsible for performing business analysis and design to support global OMP detailed scheduling deployment. Whether working independently or leading a team, you'll drive business change activities with high levels of interactive communication, inclusion, and cultural sensitivity. Your mission is to deliver high-quality arguments and process designs that meet AstraZeneca's quality and compliance standards while fulfilling business solution needs. Share your expertise and standard methodologies within our communities of practice, contributing to the evolution of internal IT processes and standards.
Accountabilities
What you'll do:

• Understand and prioritize business requirements from multiple stake holders, applying specialist knowledge where applicable. Proactively seek 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. Communicate impact, cost, and benefits of new and changed demands effectively.
• Provide insight & innovation to projects within your specialist area, aligning with AZ IT strategy and collaborating with AZ IT partners.
• Work with business and IT partners to propose and deliver solutions that achieve agreed outcomes, ensuring solutions fulfill future strategic needs and challenges. Shape and define arguments, producing detailed business justification for investment including ROI and benefits realization.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the BTG and C4Es (e.g., architects and engineers) within the function to identify required capabilities to ensure outcomes/requirements are clearly understood and can be delivered. Work with Process/Product owners to 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. Provide hands-on leadership, planning, coordination, and delivery of key project aspects, including facilitation of meetings, tracking, reporting, and communicating progress, as well as addressing risks and issues as necessary.
• Lead small projects or segments of large cutting-edge international projects, applying specialist knowledge in one subject area. Plan and manage your 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 relevant stake holders and transfer knowledge to delivery teams using interactive communication and influencing skills. Contribute to communication plans and change management for projects and stake holders.
• Support business for service tracking/issues/problems/incidents, as well as 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 PPDS, OMP Operational Planning
• Experience with SAP Recipes, BOMs, Production Versions, Resources, Calendars, Capacities, and relevant scheduling parameters
• Demonstrable experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
• Demonstrable experience of working with complex integrated systems, using creative and critical thinking to deliver exceptional results
• Strong engagement, communication, and stake holder 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
• Intuition for business
• Challenge, negotiation, and influence
• Presentation, Communication & Facilitation
• Customer Focus
• Stake holder Management
• Benefits Management and Realisation
• Networking
• Compliance
• Planning
• Business Process Management
• Requirements Management

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 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, you'll find yourself at the heart of innovation where technology meets science. Our work directly impacts patients by empowering the business to perform at its peak through innovative digital technology platforms. With a passion for data analytics, AI, machine learning, and more, we drive cross-company change to disrupt the industry. Here you can explore new solutions in a dynamic environment that encourages experimentation with innovative technology.
Ready to make an impact? Apply now to join our team!
Date Posted 28-Jul-2025
Closing Date 07-Aug-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.