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: Director, Business Agility- Performance Management
Career level: F
Introduction to role
As the Director – Business Agility, Performance Management, you will lead the Performance Management team within IT SPQ – Business Agility. You will be responsible for setting the Performance Management reporting strategy for IT, developing and agreeing on Performance Management metrics across IT functions, completing organisational change, and ensures standard processes ices. This role involves leading a global dev-ops team and supervising the work of Principal Data Analysts and their direct reports.
Accountabilities
- Lead the team to implement all BAU activities in refreshing and updating existing Performance Management data products.
- Drive the development of new and existing Performance Management data products and dashboards.
- Orchestrate work with consumers/business users on the definition of the data requirements for intended data solutions.
- Translate unstructured, sophisticated business problems into a data design and solution.
- Lead Performance Management analysis projects that include the profiling of data to understand provenance, quality, metadata models, ownership, and compliance with internal and external regulatory standards.
- Lead ad hoc wrangling of data (sourcing, extraction, profiling, integration) to support business insight.
- Lead the engagement of data engineers in the development of Source to Target pipelines (e.g., ETL design).
- Lead the design & testing of the quality and performance of derivative data models in downstream reporting and analytics solutions.
- Be responsible for the processing of requests for compliant access to data; lead the definition and management of information lifecycle management in data solutions.
- Own the provision of data understanding (structure, provenance, quality) to Architects, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists to support use in Analytics projects.
- Lead and support IT and business data teams in identifying and handling Critical Data Assets and Elements including Reference, Master, and Metadata.
- Collaborate with Risk, Assurance, Privacy, Information Security, and Regulatory authorities to ensure data and information controls are in place and adhered to.
- Clearly and objectively communicate insights and results, as well as their associated uncertainties and limitations.
- Lead and provide mentorship to Data Analysts – setting of work, supervision of task completion, fix challenges, mentor skills and behavior development, and supplying to performance evaluation reports.
- Handle the quality of work produced by Data Analysts under supervision.
- Develop and supervise standard processes for Data Analysis: Methods and Technology: technology evaluation, POCs or equivalent experience. Understanding external innovations and application to AZ data needs with respect to Data Analysis. Working across the internal AstraZeneca community to identify and develop standard processes.
- Deliver training and skill development in Data Analysis across the community: training materials, FAQs, Playbooks as well as leading community forums supporting capability development.
- Personal development and training in Data Analysis subject area leadership.
- Provide domain data expertise in Performance Management measures and metrics for IT (data standards, systems, metadata models, policies, business processes).
Essential Skills/Experience
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Data Management or possibly team area (R&D, Finance, HR etc) and cross-trained or equivalent number of years of experience
- proven ability in a data analyst or consulting or business role aligned to data and information management with practical examples of performing data analysis in terms of defining requirements, gleaning critical data elements, defining data quality criteria and checkpoints
- Domain data understanding: the structure, provenance and meaning of the source data crucial to the domain (e.g., ServiceNow, Workday). Understanding of the business processes in the generation and consumption of data
- Leading others in the delivery of data analysis activities, ideally line management team leadership
- The role holder will possess a blend of data requirement analysis, data quality analysis, data stewardship skills
- Excellent team member management and organisational change skills, engaging with IT function leads, IT VPs and CIO
- Experience in translating requirements into fit-for-purpose data models, data processing designs and data profile reports
- Experience in the use of data modeling technologies
- Experience in working in multi-skilled, multi-location data teams, working to agile principles
- Knowledge of key AZ policies and standards for data covering areas such as privacy and security
- Excellent written and verbal communication, and consultancy skills
- Awareness of the end-to-end processes and activities in the build and support of Data solutions
- Experienced in applying a risk-based methodology to data and information management
- Experience in the use of metadata cataloguing tools
- Owning the work of others – task setting, supervision and mentor of more junior colleagues
- Experience with Data Analysis enabling tool kits
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Post-graduate degree in IT, Data Management, MBA
- Experience and knowledge of analytical tools and software, including integration into emerging AI technologies
- Experience in life sciences and healthcare
- Experience in novel methods development and application
- Experience in a sophisticated global organization
- Experience in line management
- Experience in influencing and controlling budgets
At AstraZeneca, our work has a direct impact on patients' lives by transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower our teams to perform at their peak by combining powerful science with leading digital technology platforms. Our dynamic environment offers countless opportunities to learn and grow while ma-significant contributions. Join us at this crucial stage of our journey as we become a digital and data-led enterprise.
Ready to make a difference? 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.
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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