IT Business Analyst/Project Manager

Job Description

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide! We’ve been busy building and developing our technology, which is now enabling our transformation into a digital and data-led enterprise. There’s never been a better time to join us as we bring our digital strategy to life. This is a unique opportunity to develop, explore, and thrive as we embark on our next chapter.

We are now seeking an experienced IT Business Analyst /Project Mgr. to join our team in Gärtuna Sweden. We believe that you thrive in a sophisticated environments and can use creative and critical thinking to deliver outstanding results. You will collaborate with senior business partners, IT stakeholders, and regional partners to develop business cases, assist in business process design, and ensure that proposed solutions meet our quality and compliance standards.

What you’ll do:

As an IT Business Analyst, you will excel in the following responsibilities:

• Engage with various collaborators to understand and prioritize business needs to drive operational efficiencies, using your specialized knowledge. Actively seek opportunities to enhance business services in alignment with strategic objectives.
• Translate sophisticated business requirements into clear, actionable analysis, solution designs, and decisions. Communicate the impacts, costs, and benefits of new or modified demands optimally to address business risks and issues.
• Contribute innovative ideas to projects within your specialization, aligned with AZ IT strategy, and collaborate with AZ IT partners.
• Work closely with Site Leadership Teams, regional/site collaborators, and Business Process Owners to propose and implement solutions that meet agreed outcomes. Ensure these solutions align with the business’s future strategic needs. Develop and shape cases, including return on investment and benefits realization.
• Collaborate with IT capability teams, including architects and engineers, to identify essential capabilities needed for successful outcomes. Work with Process/Product owners to develop solutions that improve business process performance, capabilities, and driven edge.
• Lead and facilitate design workshops with business and implementation teams to identify functional and technical requirements.
• Capture and analyze information from relevant sources to report data trends, enabling informed decision-making for positive business impact.
• Use your communication skills to effectively engage with collaborators and share knowledge with delivery teams. Support communication plans and organisational change efforts for projects and collaborators.
  

As a Project Manager, your responsibilities include:

• Defining project scope and goals for small projects that deliver or support effective solutions, including setting a budget and schedule.
• Offer hands-on leadership, planning, coordination, and delivery of key project components, including facilitating meetings, tracking progress, reporting, and communicating challenges and concerns as needed.
• Planning and managing activities for yourself and other team members to meet results and timeframes.
• Supporting business delivery feedback from customers.
  

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Consistent track record of using various business analysis tools and methods to achieve business change.
• Experience in navigating complex integrated systems, demonstrating innovative and analytical thinking to deliver outstanding results.
• Strong engagement, communication, and management abilities, including excellent presentation and influencing skills.
• Prior experience in a regulated environment.
• Proficiency in virtual collaboration to lead, shape, and cultivate innovative solutions.
• Experience in working with and handling third-party suppliers/vendors.
• PMP or equivalent certification.
  

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Degree in a relevant subject area or equivalent experience in business analysis practice.
• Exposure to Agile Methodology.
• Experience working within a global organization.
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical industry or domain expertise.

If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

We welcome your application no later than May 22nd.

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca, we're driven by our commitment to deliver accelerated growth and to make people's lives better. We're always working towards our ambition to deliver more medicines to patients quicker and more affordably. We're leading the way in delivering Lean processes that drive greater efficiency and speed. Sustainable practices are at the heart of what we do, ensuring we manage our environmental impact across all our activities and products. If you have the passion and the drive to accelerate growth and make people's lives better, then this is the place for you.

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.