Job Title: Senior Business Analyst

Are you ready to take on a role that lets you transform business through complex analysis and system opportunities? As a Senior Business Analyst Lead, you'll bridge the gap between business and IT teams, enhancing processes and technology solutions in line with strategic goals. You'll be responsible for analyzing business processes, leading discussions, facilitating solution definition, and integrating business processes, roles, and technology to meet business objectives. This role is a chance to lead and mentor other Business Analysts, sharing best practices and driving consistent ways of working across our organization.

As a Senior Business Analyst Lead, you'll prioritize business requirements from multiple stakeholders, interpret these requirements for easy analysis, and work with regional leadership teams to propose and deliver solutions. You'll lead design sessions with the business and implementation team, work with colleagues across the BTG and C4Es to identify the capabilities required to ensure outcomes/requirements are understood and can be delivered. You'll also be responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering leading-edge projects across functions or internationally in your field of specialism.

Essential Skills/Experience:
- Proven experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
- Experience of working with complex integrated systems
- Strong engagement, communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience of working in a regulated environment
- 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
- Business acumen
- Challenge, negotiation and influence
- Presentation, Communication & Facilitation
- Customer Focus
- Stakeholder Management
- Benefits Management and Realisation
- Networking
- Compliance
- Planning
- Business Process Management
- Requirements Management
- Exposure to User Centred Design (User Experience, User Interface Design and Business Process Design)

Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Degree in relevant discipline or formal certification in business analysis practice
- Lean SIGMA training
- 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.

Why AstraZeneca?
At AstraZeneca, our work has a direct impact on patients. We're transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines by combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. We're part of a global company that's investing in a bold digital strategy; to become a truly data-led enterprise that disrupts the entire industry. We dare to lead, applying our problem-solving mindset to identify and tackle 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 world-class technology and data solutions. Our work unlocks the potential of science. We optimise and revolutionise AstraZeneca by maximising efficiencies and finding new ways to drive productivity. From automation to data simplification.

Ready to make a meaningful impact? Apply now and join us in our journey of becoming a digital and data-led enterprise.

Expectation of working in the office 3 days a week statement
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we ignite ambitious thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working give 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 is an equal opportunity employer. AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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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.