Assistant Manager - GCO Market Access

Job title - Assistant Manager - GCO Market Access

Career Level - D1

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization 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.

Who we are:

The Global Business Service (GBS) team sits within Finance at AstraZeneca and is a dynamic and results-oriented environment and provides a range of enterprise-wide services. We dare to change the way we work by freeing up the business to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. We aim to do this by freeing up time, freeing up money, protecting AZ’s value and providing new capabilities.

About Astrazeneca

What we do:

A trusted partner to the business, we’re on a mission to make AstraZeneca more agile, efficient and effective. Through our hybrid model of in-house delivery centers and service towers across the globe, we’re reimagining how we work. Here we drive new ways of working and operating models, process simplification and innovative solutions, whilst ensuring that automation and data is at the heart of everything.

How we do it:

Be part of a team building a community. We interact with diverse cultures and perspectives and are united by our sense of belonging. This is the place to learn and grow together.

Why we love it:

• As a growing multi-national company, there’s so much potential to develop. Embrace opportunities at a global business that’s facing new and varied challenges. This is the place to build an exemplary, international CV.

• A fun place to be, we’re creating community hubs that build partnerships, not just working relationships.

• We’re on an exciting journey to take our team to the next stage. This is the place to leave a legacy behind.

• We are a diverse, inclusive and innovative group who identify, build and deliver excellent shared services (which everyone can leverage) to enable AstraZeneca to grow and change at speed. We are passionate about simple process – making it easier to get vital repeatable services done – for our patients, for our customers, for our teams.

• We focus on providing exceptional value that contributes to our company’s success and future by freeing up the business (our customers) to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines for patients. With the accomplishments, commitment and passion that you bring, I’m excited about what we will achieve together towards realizing AstraZeneca’s bold ambition.

About the role

The position of Assistant Manager holds a range of responsibilities of leading GCO Market Access Reporting team and focused on design, development, and management of BI solutions. Requires a deep understanding of Data warehousing, MSTR, Power BI and its capabilities, as well as the ability to work with data and present it in a user-friendly manner. 

This role also requires leadership and project management skills, interfacing with direct stakeholders, namely in US Market Access Insights Team. 

Job Description

Role and Responsibilities

• Managing the day-to-day activities of the team.

• Developing and implementing a timeline to achieve targets.

• Conducting training of team members to maximize their potential.

• Empowering team members with skills to improve their confidence, product knowledge, and communication skills.

• Design, develop and maintain Power BI, MSTR Dashboards using graphs, panel stacks, selectors, widgets, swipe and tap functionality.

• Good understanding in Data concepts.

• Collaboration with stakeholders.

• Ability to connect data to the business.

• Analytical expertise with demonstrated data management skills.

• Complex problem-solving capability and ever improvement approach.

• Conceptualize and Design the best fit solution against the requirements.

• Manage end to end Projects from requirements gathering to production go live.

• Must be analytic, creative and self-motivated.

• Strong Excel and PowerPoint experience.

• Strong Project Management.

• Work Effectively within a global team environment.

• Liaise with the data team to suggest required changes on data side to work towards “as far downstream as possible”. 

• Undertaking appropriate data transformation, if required on BI side 

• Data validation and quality checks to ensure dashboards behave as desired 

• Guiding the customer during acceptance testing 

• Logging and investigating customer support issues and questions 

• Work to agreed timelines whilst sustaining quality outcomes 

• Create and maintain a standardized, best practice development frame work 

• Lead and guide potential team resources

• The responsible in this role will have the opportunity to propose new solutions, either within the existing Power BI setup or to suggest how additional functionality could better support the business.  

Essential Skills and experience

• Professional experience in Business Intelligence with at least 8+ years, leading a team and hands on experience with Power BI & MSTR and Market Access Data. 

• Expert in Data visualization skills using MicroStrategy, Power platform tools, Data Engineering.

• Strong knowledge in Databases and SQL.

• Experience in gathering and documenting requirements for Data Requirements.

• Full life cycle implementation experience using various SDLC methodologies.

• Excellent communication skills in both verbal and written English.

• Strong customer service focus.

• Collaborative, flexible and a team player.

• A proactive approach and focus on team success 

• A strong command of English and effective communication skills 

• Excellent analytical and logical thinking 

• Highly motivated self-starter, driven for results, effective at prioritizing and managing multiple tasks concurrently 

• Good communication and presentation skill 

• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously. 

Desirable Skills and experience

• Power BI, Agile

• Experience in Pharma, IQVIA, Market Access Data

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.

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.