Associate Director, Data Analytics Procurement - Technology & Insights Procurement

Are you ready to turn enterprise-wide procurement data into decisions that protect cost, elevate supplier performance, and ultimately help deliver medicines to patients faster? Do you want to build the data backbone and insight products that shape how a global organization invests, partners, and measures impact?

In this role, you will design and own the core datasets and performance reporting stack that power strategic procurement. You will create dashboards and analytics that fuse internal sources with market data, translate metrics into clear actions for senior leaders, and partner closely with category, supplier, and technology stakeholders. Your work will surface opportunities across spend, compliance, and supplier value—driving measurable outcomes across the value chain!

Accountabilities:

- Business Partner across Procurement Centre of Excellence

- Data Foundation Ownership: Design, improve, and manage the core reporting that supports Global Procurement and the team’s performance and reporting stack, ensuring reliability and scalability.
- Insight Products and Dashboards: Build intuitive dashboards and generate insights that combine core datasets with relevant external sources to guide category strategies and supplier decisions.
- Performance and Compliance Metrics: Develop, track, and report key departmental performance and compliance metrics for diverse business audiences, enabling clear line-of-sight to outcomes.
- Data Standards and Governance: Define and maintain data management standards to deliver consistent, accurate business analysis and metrics for critical departmental activities.
- Business Improvement Through Analytics: Identify improvement opportunities within large datasets—internal, external, and related to market trends—and translate them into targeted initiatives.
- Adoption and Change Enablement: Work with Technology Procurement and Process Owners to drive adoption, refine processes, and embed analytics into day-to-day decision making.
- Executive Storytelling: Synthesize complex analyses into concise narratives and visuals that influence senior stakeholders and inform strategic choices.
- Continuous Improvement and Automation: Streamline the reporting stack and analytical workflows, introducing automation where it increases speed, quality, and repeatability.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Coordinate with finance, risk, sustainability, and operations teams to align metrics and ensure insights connect directly to business value.

Essential Skills/Experience:

- Experience with procurement analytics, including category management, supplier performance, and spend optimization

- Outstanding track record of data-driven analysis

- Business partnering and producing analytics directly for stakeholders, collaborating to scope requirements, deliver insights, and inform decision-making

- Demonstrated expertise in manipulating large datasets and extrapolating insights: Microsoft Excel; Microsoft Power BI (additional BI experience also applicable, such as Qlik, Tableau, MicroStrategy, etc.); SQL; Python/R
- Diligent with excellent organisational, problem-solving, communication, and professional interpersonal skills
- Comfortable translating data and insights for senior executives
- Ability to work effectively both independently and in a team environment

Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Familiarity with procurement platforms and source-to-pay solutions (e.g., SAP Ariba, Coupa) and their data structures
- Experience integrating external market data and supplier risk or sustainability metrics into dashboards and KPIs
- Experience in a highly regulated or life sciences environment and comfort operating across multiple regions and functions
- Proven ability to lead through influence, manage stakeholders, and deliver change in fast-paced settings

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.

Why AstraZeneca:
Here, data and technology accelerate real-world impact—your analytics will shape supplier choices, strengthen the resilience of our value chain, and help bring transformative medicines to patients. You will join a global, collaborative community that brings unexpected teams together to solve complex problems, backed by meaningful investment to modernize tools and shift from operational reporting to strategic execution. We value kindness alongside ambition, encourage experimentation grounded in commercial rigor, and give you enterprise-wide visibility to build influence, grow your craft, and see the results of your work in outcomes that matter.

Lead the data agenda that powers strategic procurement—share your CV and show us how you will turn insight into measurable value for patients and the business!

Date Posted

19-Feb-2026

Closing Date

06-Mar-2026

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.

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.