Senior Manager Global Community Investment

Location: Barcelona - Spain (3 days working from the office and 2 days working from home).

At AstraZeneca we turn ideas into life changing medicines. We are dedicated to transforming the future of healthcare by unlocking the power of what science can do for people, society and the planet. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the seemingly impossible a reality.

As Senior Manager, Global Community Investment, you will play a pivotal role in implementing our Health Equity strategy and developing programmes aligned with our disease area priorities that bridge healthcare gaps for underserved patients, promote healthier behaviours, enable early disease detection and improve access to care.

This role is critical in bringing to life how AstraZeneca is contributing to better, more equitable health outcomes for societies across the globe. This role requires a self-starter who is experienced in and engergised by public private partnerships and implementing high-quality community investment programmes through hands-on delivery at global and country level. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in public health, government affairs, healthcare policy, and strategic programme management, with a passion for advancing health equity within the pharmaceutical industry.

Key responsibilities:

• Young Health Programme (YHP): Support implementation of the YHP in diverse geographies, in line with AstraZeneca’s sustainability strategy, collaborating with global and local NGO partners and AstraZeneca country teams to deliver against shared objectives. Drive strong employee and YHP youth-advocate engagement by delivering key YHP activities and events, including One Young World, Youth Assembly and Girls Belong Here. Cultivate a thriving YHP alumni community that supports peer learning, sustained engagement, and collaboration. Elevate YHP internally and externally through coordinated multi‑channel communications, adhering to brand guidelines and effective use of social platforms and tools. Support development of strong evidence generation frameworks and enable countries to adopt outcome-focused impact metrics.

• Community Investment (CI): Increase visibility and understanding of CI policies across the organisation and work with cross-functional teams to update and create policies as required. Advise the business on what is in scope of CI, responding to queries. Manage YHP and CI partnership agreements, grant processing and finance workflows in CyberGrants and maintain accurate documentation. Track CI activity around the world, ensuring alignment with policies and advising country teams as needed. Collaborate with NGO partners to ensure accurate data collection and manage the annual YHP and CI data assurance process. Stay current on CSR and community issues in our focus areas and apply insights to strengthen programme design and delivery.

• Disaster relief and product donations: Collaborate with NGO partners, and internal cross-functional teams to reach underserved patients with product donations where there is an identified need, ensuring alignment to policies. Provide rapid, compliant support to markets during humanitarian emergencies.

Your ability to establish strong, trusted partnerships with a variety of external and internal stakeholders and manage competing priorities, often to tight and competing deadlines, will be key to success. You will have knowledge of how health systems work and how healthcare is delivered, and will be excited to apply your insights to the role. Your passion, proactivity, entrepreneurial mindset and proven ability to deliver high quality partnership programmes and impactful, measurable delivery will help us to achieve key goals.

INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CUSTOMERS / CLIENTS

Internal – some examples of internal contacts/customers are:

Global Corporate Affairs including Global Policy, Advocacy and Health Equity and Corporate Communications

Regional and in-market Corporate Affairs teams

Sustainability, Compliance, Legal, HR, Supply, Security

External – some examples of external contacts are:

NGOs and philanthropic organisations

Public health expert groups

REQUIREMENTS:

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field is required.

Experience

• Proven experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare sector in an in-house or agency role with a focus on reducing health disparities, improving access to care, government engagement and/or health policies.

• Understanding of healthcare systems, how to drive healthcare policy change at country level and experience of successful partnership projects realised across diverse markets.

• Demonstrated knowledge of community investment guidelines, standards, and reporting requirements.  

Skills and competencies

• Passion for advancing health equity and a deep commitment to reducing healthcare disparities.

• Ability to analyse complex data and use insights to inform decision-making and programme development.

• Eagerness and ability to collaborate with and mobilise different people and organisations; work effectively in a matrix organisation and ability to prioritise effectively.

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, backed by strong corporate & ESG communications, analytical and digital skills.

• Self-starting, independent, entrepreneurial attitude – a smart risk-taker who thrives on new challenges and on seeing things through to completion.

• Practical understanding of financial reporting and compliance requirements

• Management of budgets and external agency teams

• Understanding of application of corporate brand guidelines

• Experience and interest in establishing and supporting adherence to processes to ensure consistency in implementing of CI policies and practices

In Office Requirement

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.

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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.