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
Title : Director - Data Product Manager
GCL : F
Introduction to role
Are you ready to make a positive impact in a team where it means more? At AstraZeneca Operations, we have a bold ambition to deliver more medicines to patients, faster and more affordably. With strong investment, leadership, and a clear plan, we bring personal dedication and innovative thinking to our expanding product pipeline.
Our Global Supply Chain & Strategy (GSC&S) team is focused on creating agile, connected, and sustainable supply chains that place pioneering science into the hands of patients using the latest technologies. We are driving transformative change through our Digital & Data Strategy programme, part of our broader Operations 2030 strategy, to enhance speed, agility, and productivity. This is an extraordinary opportunity for someone with supply chain knowledge and excellent data management experience to lead transformative change across the organization.
Accountabilities
Do you have a deep understanding of AstraZeneca’s Global Supply Chain processes? As the Data Product Manager, you will:
- Support work to set the vision and strategy for data products across Global Supply Chain, guided by a clear understanding of business value and customer needs.
- Translate business needs into requirements as input into the design, build, and iteration of the data product.
- Create and maintain data product roadmaps, leading the ongoing delivery and management of the product from inception to maturity.
- Act as the voice of the business to prioritize building what matters most to enable the strategic goals of the enterprise.
- Own and manage a feature backlog, teaming with architects, analysts, and engineers to elaborate requirements.
- Collaborate with the IT organization to ensure appropriate resourcing and prioritization to meet business timelines.
- Own and manage the business metadata and metrics for their data products.
- Engage and collaborate with partners and stakeholders to gather input and communicate plans, timelines, and deliveries.
- Champion agile, iterative development processes while ensuring data products are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
Essential Skills/Experience
- Understanding of the principles of Data Product Management, ideally having worked in a similar Data Product Manager role
- Supply Chain Management knowledge
- Familiarity with data engineering concepts such as ETL, data modelling, data lakes/databases, reference data, master data etc.
- Experience leading or working on agile development teams
- Requirements development and prioritization skills
- Excellent leadership, communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience establishing, communicating, and executing product roadmaps
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with the ability to make data-driven decisions
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Experience of working in a global organization where partners and project teams are geographically dispersed
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a scientific or technical subject area
- Relevant experience in the pharmaceutical industry
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple streams of work simultaneously
- Familiarity with data science, data visualization, and reporting concepts
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. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
At AstraZeneca, we are driven by our commitment to deliver accelerated growth and make people's lives better. Our inclusive community supports each other on our journeys while embracing diverse opportunities. With leading-edge science and digital technologies, we drive automation and efficiency. We are committed to sustainable practices and managing our environmental impact. Working with medicines that address unmet needs fills us with pride as we positively impact local and global communities.
Ready to take on this exciting challenge? Apply now to join our team!
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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