Why choose AstraZeneca Spain?
AstraZeneca Spain is a rising force in our global business. With headquarters in Madrid and our global hub in Barcelona, we’ve become an important international centre of excellence in the fight against critical disease. Boasting vibrant universities and business schools, the Barcelona ecosystem is a place where scientists can thrive. We attract a diverse workforce from across the globe, shining a beacon for innovation in a country that’s committed to clinical development.
We invite you to bring your talents to Barcelona where our respiratory medicine R&D and Global Marketing centre offers opportunities in R&D, IT, Commercial and HR. Or join us in Madrid and shape our growth in our BUs (Respiratory, Oncology & CVRM ), and a range of Corporate functions. Additionally, you can find sales roles throughout the country. Together, we’re contributing to a world-leading pipeline of therapeutics and delivering life-changing medicines to patients.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca Spain, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. Alongside technical expertise, colleagues have the resilience, energy and collaborative mindset to change lanes, work with different teams and start projects from scratch.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Madrid or Barcelona, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Diverse collaborators
This is a speak-up culture that values collaboration. You’ll proactively bring your unique perspectives, experiences and skills to the table and seek the same from others. With our international team composition and the need for fast-paced collaboration, you’ll always be building new connections with colleagues.
Cutting-edge innovators
When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that embraces digital technology and data to transform the way we work and the work we do. Every day, you’ll help make history, empowered to ignite your creativity and build something enduring.
Resilient trailblazers
Here, the answers aren’t always available. So, you’ll need to bring a fearless, self-starter mindset to navigate uncharted territories. You’ll harness your ceaseless energy to discover and make the necessary connections with colleagues to shape the future and achieve maximum impact.
Agile movers
Seize ownership and excel with autonomy to enjoy the constant rush of ground-breaking discovery. Your ability to anticipate sudden shifts and adapt swiftly will prove critical as you make your mark in an environment that rewards initiative and resilience.
Responsibilities
Location: Barcelona, Spain (On-site) / 3 days working from the office.
About the Department
Sustainable, FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Reusable) data is integral to AstraZeneca's mission as a science-driven pharmaceutical company, serving as a cornerstone for the corporate strategy. The incorporation of Data, AI, and Digital technologies is a foundational value driver for innovative science and a potential differentiator in the corporate landscape.
AstraZeneca’s R&D Data Office is at the forefront of enabling data and AI strategies. It provides comprehensive data services, technology solutions, and data products, underpinned by robust data and AI policy and governance, to extract value from data that propels innovative scientific discovery.
Focused on impacting the R&D pipeline, the Data Office emphasizes three core areas: advancing data and AI-powered scientific innovation, connecting a digitized R&D value chain, and pioneering best practices in data and AI governance.
The Position
The Business Process Engineer will be an integral part of Data Office’s Solution Delivery & Transformation team, tasked with upscaling and improving R&D’s data sharing ecosystem and delivery of data services. This ecosystem facilitates efficient and compliant sharing of data within and beyond AstraZeneca to empower the innovative science driving R&D drug development. A core part of this ecosystem are business processes that are being reimagined to achieve greater speed, user experience, simplicity and scale. This will include a shift from manual, to automatedand AI-enabled processing and will cover both ‘back-office’ processes associated to data management, governance, creation of AI and analytics-ready data, and also‘front office’ processes that data consumers (e.g. data scientists) require.
The Business Process Engineer is crucial to the development of high-quality processes. This position will suit highly collaborative,technically skilledand subject matter experts, capable of independently planning and taking a lead on business process improvement projects. Day-to-day, this will involve understanding business requirements, working collaboratively to analyse and delivernewly proposed data andbusiness process flowsand supporting project teams to reach agreements that can take proposals to production.
The Impact
As an essential rolewithin our transformation team, the Business Process Engineer will directly support the introduction of a data sharing ecosystem thatcan harness the full potential data to meet the increasing demands of a rapidly evolving AI-enabled landscape central to the continued successful speed of scientific innovation and delivery of the
Typical Accountabilities
Analyse and evaluate current processes to identify inefficiencies, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
Design and document new processes, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and compliance standards.
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholdersto gather requirements and insights needed for effective and optimalprocess creation
Apply best practice in process analysis, development and optimisation activities and promote best practice across the Data Office
Using best practice and notation, create process flow diagrams, and associated guidance documentation to communicate workflows and practices clearly.
Conduct workshops and training sessions to ensure stakeholders understand newly developed processes.
Utilize data analysis techniques to support process layout and validation, as well as to identify bottlenecks.
Utilise best practice BA techniques around process requirement analysis
Test and validate new processes to ensure they operate effectively before handover to operational teams.
Collaborate with IT and data management teams to ensure that technical solutions support the created processes.
Education, Qualifications, and Experience
Essential
Advanced degree (MSc) or higher in related subject,or equivalent professional skills
Professional certification in Business or Process Analysisfrom a recognised bodye.g. IIBA or BCS
Significant experience with Business Process Analysis, Design, Rollout, andOptimisation, both in creating new processes and uplifting existing ones.
Significant experience using BPMN to develop and document processes, using standard IT tooling
Experience planning and running design workshops with cross functional team
Strong engagement, communication and partner management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
Experience working on projects in a complex global organization, including collaborating cross-functionally to deliver against objectives.
Awareness of latest data and technology trends
Desirable
PhD in related subject
Pharmaceutical or life sciences industry experience, specifically in R&D
Experience within a Data focussed team
Experience in the fields of Data Governance, Data Privacy and Data Access
Experience using GB TECHBIC platform for storing processes
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.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, inclusivity, balance and sustainability. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
An award-winning company
We're passionate about being a great place to work, and 84% of our employees would recommend us as an employer. We've been recognised as a Top Employer in Spain, an EFR Family Responsible Business, and we achieved third place in Forbes Spain's Top 50 Best Places to Work list.
Inclusive environment
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do, and our different views, experiences and strengths enrich our culture. There's no salary gap at AstraZeneca, and the number of female employees has increased by four per cent over the last three years. We've also made all positions fully accessible.
Work-life balance
Your wellbeing means a lot to us, and we're here to support you through all of life's ups and downs. That's why we offer an unpaid leave policy, annual leave, reduced-hours timetables and a host of benefits, including a retirement plan, long service award, and health and travel insurance.
Sustainability initiatives
We're committed to harnessing the power of science to become a more sustainable business. We've reduced our carbon footprint by over 9,000 kg of CO2 over the last two years, and we lead the European GoGreen Project, which aims to introduce environmentally friendly options in our fleet of corporate vehicles.
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