Change and Deployment Integration Manager

Why AstraZeneca?

There's never been a better time to join Technology at AstraZeneca. We've been lively building and developing our technology which is now enabling our transformation to become a digital and data-led enterprise. There's a huge opportunity to develop, explore and thrive during our next chapter.

Accountabilities:

Responsible to understand integration requirements and change impact from a business implementation perspective arising from the design, to confirm a process be practically implemented, and understand the level of business / change required.
Leads change impact assessments during design, by working closely with the Enterprise Process owner (EPO), Enterprise Process Leaders (EPL) and their teams, and Regional / functional / first site business teams to ensure the major change burden of implementation arising from global design are understood and can be managed.  
Uses extensive specialist knowledge of process, systems and data to support understanding of integration deployment considerations, outstanding conceptual thinking and analytical skills and the ability to influence and work closely across teams to review design coming from relevant EPO areas in order to:
Identify and resolve deployment integration issues, where necessary collaborating with and negotiating across multiple teams and leaders to do so
Identify and ensures resolution of significant deployment issues in the global core design that mean one or more core global process could not be operated during the transition or end state.
Work with Operations Regions and Functions to settle the change means for them, any challenges that need considering in the design phase. ‘First line of defence’ for requests to have an exception to the standard.
Looks across design to understand consolidated change impacts and interactions
Find innovative solutions to integration and change management challenges, seeking external insight where appropriate
Develop a plan to run long lead time change items or deploy early to better handle change impact
Maintains a high degree of understanding and awareness on process, data and systems
Works closely to develop processes to achieve the above. Provides input to the change management strategy.
Identify situations where changes to the AZ business or external factors triggers a change to the previously approved designs or understanding of major change areas, and trigger required re-evaluations.
Identifies major change risks, and ensures mitigations are in place.
Translates technical concepts into business language to enable wider understanding of significant issues

Skills required:

• Extensive knowledge across multiple process area, with particular strength for Supply Chain processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as shown negotiation, collaboration and interpersonal leadership skills
• Conceptual, analytical and critical thinking
• Ability to influence strategically and persuade thoughtfully, to acquire desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organizational relationships

Nice to have skills:

• Extensive knowledge of the latest technical and regulatory expectations
• Operational expertise in risk management and prioritisation
• Effective problem and conflict resolution skills and shown team focus
• Willingness to travel both domestically and internationally
• Ability to analyse processes in SAP and other key systems and work with extensive data sets.

At AstraZeneca, we dare to lead, applying our problem-solving approach to identify and seek opportunities across the whole enterprise. Our spirit of experimentation is lived every day through our events like hackathons. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering premier technology and data solutions. Our work unlocks the potential of science. We optimise and redefine AstraZeneca by improving efficiencies and finding new ways to drive productivity. From automation to data simplification.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we ignite bold thinking with the power to encourage 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 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.