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AstraZenecaGlobal Supply and Strategy Director
Global Supply and Strategy Director optimizing supply chains for AstraZeneca's product portfolio. Leading initiatives across Oncology and Biopharma Business Units to enhance operational performance.
About the role
- Deliver strategic projects for clients focused on life sciences R&D stages
- Analyze customer needs and gaps and propose solutions for desired future state
- Collaborate with clients at multiple levels (SMEs, systems users, lab managers, directors, VPs) and with internal Zifo delivery and commercial teams
- Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders
- Provide high-level project and client consultation to drive overall engagement success
- Manage internal team and mentor associates across the Zifo organization
- Drive clear problem elucidation on new and ongoing engagements
- Develop recommendations and future state strategy, including application and data ecosystem roadmaps
- Review and update business processes and systems landscape information
- Provide on-site business analysis support for scientific groups
- Evaluate industry trends to identify areas for optimization
- Perform gap analysis, define business and data process workflows (as-is and to-be) and data models
- Generate audience-appropriate communications and documentation
Requirements
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree or equivalent in a scientific / life science field
- 20+ years’ experience within the pharmaceutical life sciences industry
- Prior experience in a life sciences lab setting, preferably hands-on bench-level research experience
- Prior experience driving life science informatics solution implementation
- Detailed knowledge of data and operational considerations in application landscape development
- 5+ years of people management and a successful track record of associate development
- Experience presenting information in conferences and in large group settings
- Solid understanding and practical application of Pharmaceutical Research and Drug Discovery & Development processes and Biologics workflows
- Well-developed communication skills that enable communicating with junior team members, developers, project managers and stakeholders across various levels of maturity
- Ability to effectively influence and guide clients and internal partners on strategic and tactical efforts
- Demonstrated sense of ownership in the success of engagements with clients
- Strong understanding of key systems and informatics concepts such as SDLC, Agile methodology, ITIL concepts, data modeling and application ecosystem design
- People management and associate development
- Effective problem elucidation skills and setting a strategic approach to challenges
- Deep knowledge of informatics systems and associated application ecosystems in use within life sciences, including eLNs, LIMS systems, lab instrumentation, etc.
- Strategic consulting skills including developing application and data ecosystem roadmaps, providing strategic vision for systems replacement/implementation, driving enterprise projects/programs, and spearheading change management efforts
- Managing teams of business analysts and their deliverables (systems and process requirements, use cases, cost/benefit analyses, etc.)
- Project management skills: resource & effort planning, task planning & scheduling, scope & time management, risk assessment and tracking, vendor management
- Able to facilitate project meetings, prioritize requirements, guide the development team and remove blockers
- Experience in RFIs / RFPs and engaging with commercial partners preferred
- Experience in coding (SQL, Python, Java) and data / metadata principles preferred
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Accrued vacation
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401k with company matching
- Life insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
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