Why choose AstraZeneca India?
Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare.
The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, 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.
Tech innovators
Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.
Ownership takers
If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.
Challenge seekers
Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.
Proactive collaborators
Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.
Responsibilities
Job Title: Senior Project Manager (Non-IT)
Career Level: E
About AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases.
At AstraZeneca, we foster a collaborative culture that values knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking, and innovation. This environment provides opportunities to work across teams, functions, and even globally.
Recognizing the importance of flexibility, our working model allows employees to balance personal and professional commitments while maintaining a strong culture of collaboration by engaging in our offices three days a week. Our offices are designed to facilitate teamwork, providing spaces for strategizing, brainstorming, and connecting on key projects.
AstraZeneca is committed to lifelong learning. We offer extensive opportunities for professional growth and development.
Our Position
Do you want to be part of a high-performing team making a real difference at one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies? We are assembling a team of experienced project managers who provide leadership and insights beyond just managing plans. AstraZeneca is building an internal consulting capability within our Global Business Services (GBS) group, focused on delivering high-quality project management across our enterprise.
Our vision is to create a global project services team that delivers business outcomes by meeting the internal demand for strong project management skills. You will work closely with our businesses as a project expert and trusted advisor, setting high standards, collaborating, and supporting our business partners.
Within the GBS Project Services team, you will define and deliver service quality while acting as a project thought leader, responding to business needs for project support. With a strong understanding of change management and excellent communication skills, you will effectively engage with stakeholders to achieve business outcomes.
About Global Business Services
In Global Business Services (GBS), we are bold, resilient, and take smart risks to simplify our work processes. Through our global scale and diverse services, we drive value through innovation and expertise. Our team collaborates without boundaries, challenges norms, feels empowered, and stays motivated.
As a global business services group, we are dedicated to working smarter to free up time and resources, protect value, and provide new capabilities to the enterprise, all to push the boundaries of science and deliver life-changing medicines.
In GBS Productivity and Project Services, we support this ambition by being trusted partners for delivery excellence and building long-term capabilities to efficiently drive internal business projects. This is where you come in. Working in Productivity and Project Services is fast-paced, dynamic, and challenging. We seek individuals ready to take an exciting step in their personal development journey, leverage their experience as thought leaders in project management, and play a fundamental role in delivering a world-class organization.
Typical Accountabilities
Project Management: Manage functional projects of medium complexity and risk with a supportive partner organization.
Project Governance: Define, implement, and drive project governance across a mature partner landscape.
Customer Engagement: Deliver excellent customer service, effective communication, professionalism, and a commitment to exceeding expectations.
Problem Solving: Apply effective problem-solving techniques, simplifying complex information to create actionable insights.
External Insight: Participate in communities of practice with Project Directors and Managers in the wider team.
Essential Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree
Proven track record of 5+ years managing medium complexity projects in a global organization as a Project Manager, with a total of 10+ years of experience.
Significant experience and skill in presenting to senior management through written and verbal channels.
Strong communication and relationship-building skills with experience in collaborating and sharing knowledge between teams.
Experience in evaluating risks, considering alternatives, and encouraging input from others to make effective decisions and plan mitigation tactics.
Comfortable and skilled in operating within a complex, matrixed organization across diverse, global teams.
Excellent business engagement and acumen with sensitivity to internal and external political/economic environments.
Desirable Requirements
Project Management Certification
Change Management Certification
Management Consulting experience
Experience in the pharmaceutical industry or equivalent global, complex organizations; familiarity with working within a quality and compliance environment and applying relevant policies, procedures, and guidelines.
When we bring diverse teams together, we unleash bold thinking that inspires life-changing medicines. In-person working provides the platform we need to connect, work efficiently, and challenge perceptions. We work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office, balancing this expectation with individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
At AstraZeneca, we value our team of specialists. We are at a crucial time of evolution, and your role here will make an impact. We encourage entrepreneurial and innovative thinking in a creative yet rigorous environment. We work inclusively, leveraging our combined skills and expertise to find new solutions that accelerate our impact. We are committed to investing in your growth and development, keeping you ahead of our peers. Here, you can expect to feel at home from the moment you join.
Are you ready to join a team of specialist experts, confident in their knowledge and skills, yet open and welcoming to diverse views? Apply now and be part of the change at AstraZeneca!
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, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
Lifelong learning
Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.
Autonomy and reward
Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package.
Health and wellbeing
An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.
Inclusion and diversity
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.
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