Job Location: Chennai
JOB TITLE: SENIOR ANALYST
CAREER LEVEL: D2
Leverage technology to impact patients and ultimately save lives
Do you have expertise in, and passion for, information technology? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the IT strategy in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? If so, AstraZeneca might be the one for you!
About astrazeneca
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.
About our it team
It’s a dynamic and results-oriented environment to work in – but that’s why we like it. There are countless opportunities to learn and grow, whether that’s exploring new technologies in hackathons, or redefining the roles and work of colleagues, forever. Shape your own path, with support all the way. Diverse minds that work cross- functionally and broadly together.
About the role
Job Description
The Associate IT Project Manager leads one or a set of interrelated projects with a value of up to $1M. The role typically reports to a Capability Lead and maintains project accountability, from initiation to close, to deliver effective solutions that meet approved customer and business needs. The role is accountable for developing and delivering solutions to approved budget and schedule commitments whilst meeting required quality and compliance standards. Focus areas include collaborator management, risk management and delivery of business benefit. The role will be accountable for the successful delivery of projects and products and will also flex between the key capabilities of PM/BA depending on the particular circumstances.
PM Accountabilities
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Preparing and completing project plan, including activities, resources, costs, roles, responsibilities and quality as defined in the IT Project Management Methodology (ADF).
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Managing project budgets, forecasts, tasks, schedules, risks, change management, and status to support effective decisions and project reporting.
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Managing relationships with business partners to ensure the effective capturing of business requirements and commitment to project objectives.
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Responsible for steering / collaborator meetings, communication of status, issues, risks
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Driving effective risks & issues management, ensuring processes are in place and used in an efficient way.
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Building a cohesive project team and provide the leadership necessary to maximise the team’s success.
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Managing changes to scope, ensuring that all impacts and changes are approved and appropriately communicated to collaborators and review boards.
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Assuring / developing service transition plans to ensure project delivered solutions are sustainable within a business-as-usual operations environment, including controlled hand-over into operational support.
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Ensuring the project team adheres to all standards including ADF, quality, and compliance, as well as processes, defined technical capabilities.
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Ensuring expected benefits realisation is consistent with project deliverables and clearly understood.
Scrum Accountabilities
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Completes the Product Backlog as per the Product Owner prioritization
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Mediator between the delivery team and the product owner, coaching team members. Facilitates stand-ups between the product owner and delivery team as required
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Plans meetings and provides meeting cadence, determines who attends, including daily stand-ups.
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Plans and review sprints and captures delivery team and product owner feedback
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Coaches the delivery team activities aligned to product owner specification and priorities
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Resolves barriers and controls the Scrum processes. Monitors the Scrum processes to increase efficiency
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Provides reports for product owners and collaborators to present progress
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Solves team conflicts with good communication skills. Motivates the team
BA Accountabilities
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Understand and priorities business requirements from multiple customers
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Interpret business requirements and simplify them for easy analysis, solution design and decision making
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Work with BTG/AZ IT partners to propose and deliver solutions to achieve agreed outcomes
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Work with colleagues across the BTG and C4Es, e.g., architects and engineers, to identify the capabilities required to ensure outcomes/requirements and clearly understood and can be delivered.
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Collate information from relevant sources for analysis and reporting relevant data trends for informed decision making
Required Skills & Knowledge
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Technical or Business Degree or equivalent experience
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Previous experience controlling IT project budgets up to $1M.
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Experience managing and leading global IT project teams
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Experience working in a global organisation where stakeholders and project team members are geographically dispersed.
Desirable
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Experience with Supply Chain projects – optimal candidates have knowledge of Deliver Domain (Logistics, Warehousing, External Logistics Providers)
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Experience with SAP projects
WHY JOIN US?
We’re a network of high-reaching self-starters who contribute to something far bigger. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering premier technology and data solutions.
We’re not afraid to take ownership and run with it. Empowered with unrivalled freedom. Put simply, it’s because we make a significant impact. Everything we do matters.
SO, WHAT’S NEXT?
Are you already envisioning yourself joining our team? Good, because we’d love to hear from you! Click the link to apply and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.
WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE?
Our Social Media, Follow AstraZeneca on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/1603/
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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