Communications & People Project Manager, Global Corporate Affairs (12 Month Secondment / Contract)

Communications & People Project Manager, Global Corporate Affairs

(12 Month Secondment / Contract)

Location: Cambridge, Luton UK

Competitive salary and benefits apply

Join us at AstraZeneca as a Communications & People Project Manager in our Global Corporate Affairs (GCA) team. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to our journey to become a world-leading Corporate Affairs function. You will support strategy delivery through leading-edge project planning, employee engagement for GCA, and our People & Culture priorities. The diverse nature of the role will enable you to gain diverse experience and exposure across a range of areas in GCA.

Accountabilities:

As a key member of the GCA Strategy & Operations team, you will work closely with team members across the GCA network, supporting execution of key internal communications and employee engagement activities. You will also work closely with the Learning, Development and Culture Director, GCA, supporting key projects and activities aligned to our People & Culture priorities. Lastly, you will have the responsibility for a variety of communications or people related projects across the GCA network, managing often complex sets of stakeholders and ensuring programmes are delivered on-time and on-budget.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree. Minimum of 5 years’ experience in communications with evidence of shaping and developing innovative communications programmes/solutions that have a major impact within the business area and organisation.

• Experience helping to coordinate internal & external events (live, hybrid and digital) and driving employee engagement initiatives.

• Demonstrated track record of success in delivering strategic, complex, cross-functional and multi-site projects on-time, on-budget and to committed deliverables to generate significant business value.

• Demonstrated track record of managing large budgets and working across teams globally to track and reconcile data.

• Experience of working in a global organisation with complex/geographical context.

Capabilities & Behaviours:

• Strong interpersonal, collaboration and communications skills through all levels of the organisation with ambiguity and fast pace

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

• Strong financial, business analytical skills insights capabilities

• Ability to manage conflicting priorities, stakeholder & colleague expectations and deliver consistently high-quality outputs

• Self-starter with proven ability to work independently and flexibly, think ahead, engage proactively and take initiative

• High level of integrity, able to handle highly confidential information

• Able to develop and maintain networks across business and cultural boundaries

• Capable of achieving results in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, often on short deadlines

• Comfortable operating in a matrixed environment

When we put diverse 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. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, we're the global team that helps to make excellence and breakthroughs possible. Here, you can apply your skills and abilities to genuinely impact patients' lives. Join us at an exciting time of growth through innovation for AstraZeneca. Shape this journey by reimagining the way we work, at every turn we're innovating and taking intelligent risks. We do this to steer the enterprise. powering every function to run faster, more efficiently, and achieve more.

Are you ready to take accountability and be trusted to run with it and innovate every day? Apply now!

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.