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
GCL: C2/C3
Introduction to role:
Are you driven to turn complex healthcare data into trustworthy assets that fuel smart decisions and deliver impact for patients? This role puts you at the heart of our commercial data foundation, ensuring the people, organizations, products, and consumer records our teams rely on are complete, accurate, and ready for action.
You will join a fast-moving, digitally minded group that is reimagining how we work with data—introducing automation, boosting consistency, and enabling the enterprise to move faster. Your stewardship will directly support field effectiveness, compliance, and insights. Could you be the person who ensures every record is trusted, traceable, and timely?
Accountabilities:
- Health Care Master stewardship: Process and resolve data change requests for Health Care Professionals and Health Care Organizations, ensuring integrity from intake to close.
- Matching and merging excellence: Complete detailed duplicate detection, matching, and merging to maintain a single source of truth across systems.
- External data onboarding: On-board new syndicated and third-party datasets, validating completeness, accuracy, and alignment with defined standards.
- Queue management and prioritization: Proactively monitor and manage data queues, prioritizing and accomplishing work to meet service levels.
- Data quality improvement: Identify, define, and implement data quality initiatives and controls that measurably improve availability, completeness, and accuracy.
- Business partnering: Collaborate closely with commercial partners to understand requirements, translate them into data rules, and deliver outcomes that enable field and reporting needs.
- Process governance: Review and update SOPs and work instructions so they reflect current business priorities, regulatory expectations, and data standards.
- Provider alignment: Define and communicate market definitions and formatting requirements to external data providers; assess provider data for completeness and quality.
- Data operations at scale: Complete mass data uploads, cleansing, enrichment, and updates with robust validation to minimize downstream rework.
- Management of product and customer information: Perform analysis and maintenance of product and customer (patient) data, ensuring uniformity across domains.
- Issue resolution with technology teams: Partner with IT to identify root causes, resolve defects, and prevent recurrence through durable fixes.
- Research and investigations: Conduct data searches, triage anomalies, and reconcile records across internal and external sources.
- Insightful reporting and metrics: Produce clear reports on data in scope; define and track benchmarks and data quality metrics, and work towards defined targets.
- Mentorship and mentoring: Support less experienced team members by sharing standards, techniques, and approaches that elevate team performance.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Data Management Operations experience in Pharma or FMCG industry
- Good understanding of data quality and data management principles
- Experience in data analysis and data processing activities
- Ability to effectively estimate task completion timings
- Strong proficiency in MS Excel
- Knowledge of database concepts and tools
- Intermediate or advanced knowledge of SQL
- High level of attention to details
- Proactive, analytical, and investigative approach
- Customer Service attitude
- Proven track record in identification and implementation of process improvements
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Proficient in MS Office applications (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint)
- Ability to think independently and provide recommendations to collaborators
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Experience working with Veeva CRM
- Experience working with Reltio MDM or other Master Data Management solutions
- Understanding of Transparency reporting requirements and practices in the Pharma industry
- Able to present data and reports in an easily understandable format
- Ability to build dashboards in Power BI
- Working knowledge of programming languages such as Python
Why AstraZeneca:
This is a moment of rapid, tech-powered growth where data sits at the core of how we run, learn, and scale impact. You will work with brand new tools and automation, sit alongside unexpected partners, and see your ideas move from pilot to practice quickly. We bring ambitious minds together, encourage smart risks, and value kindness alongside drive—creating a space where sharing, feedback, and mastery are everyday habits. Your craft in data stewardship will unlock faster decisions, streamline operations, and ultimately help us reach patients sooner with the medicines they need.
Call to Action:
If you are ready to own the quality of data that powers real-world decisions and grow your expertise in a high-visibility role, submit your application and help shape what comes next!
Date Posted
03-Aug-2026Closing Date
08-Aug-2026AstraZeneca 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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