Senior Analyst - Reporting Solution Owner

Job Title - Senior Analyst - Reporting Solution Owner

Career Level - D1

About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.

Who we are:

The Global Business Service (GBS) team sits within Finance at AstraZeneca and is a dynamic and results-oriented environment and provides a range of enterprise-wide services. We dare to change the way we work by freeing up the business to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. We aim to do this by freeing up time, freeing up money, protecting AZ’s value and providing new capabilities.

What we do:

A trusted partner to the business, we’re on a mission to make AstraZeneca more agile, efficient and effective. Through our hybrid model of in-house delivery centers and service towers across the globe, we’re reimagining how we work. Here we drive new ways of working and operating models, process simplification and innovative solutions, whilst ensuring that automation and data is at the heart of everything.

How we do it:

Be part of a team building a community. We interact with diverse cultures and perspectives and are united by our sense of belonging. This is the place to learn and grow together.

Why we love it:

• As a growing multi-national company, there’s so much potential to develop. Accept opportunities at a global business that’s facing new and varied challenges. This is the place to build an exemplary, international CV.

• A fun place to be, we’re creating community hubs that build partnerships, not just working relationships.

• We’re on an exciting journey to take our team to the next stage. This is the place to leave a legacy behind.

• We are a diverse, inclusive and innovative group who identify, build and deliver excellent shared services (which everyone can leverage) to enable AstraZeneca to grow and change at speed. We are passionate about simple process – making it easier to get vital repeatable services done – for our patients, for our customers, for our teams.

• We focus on providing exceptional value that chips in to our company’s success and future by freeing up the business (our customers) to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines for patients. With the accomplishments, commitment and passion that you bring, I’m excited about what we will achieve together towards realizing AstraZeneca’s aggressive ambition.

About the role

It is imperative that GCR&A team focuses on optimizing our delivery models, digital, automation, driving efficiencies that impact timelines and costs and quickly scale best practices for the benefit of the commercial business. This team is also accountable for excellent execution which underpins the core commercial marketing activities in omnichannel and commercial Reporting and ability to inform on performance. A key challenge will be ensuring that the Offshore Omnichannel Reporting Delivery team is operating in an optimized manner.

This candidate will be responsible for collecting and documenting detailed user reporting requirements and executing quality assurance to ensure all reporting requirements are satisfied. The candidate must be an effective liaison to the business end users and our reporting team.

Main Responsibilities:

• Serve as a key liaison between Business End Users, IT and Power BI Development team; working with collaborators to identify their reporting/data requirements

• Translate reporting business needs into technical reporting requirements with acceptance criteria for hand over to Power BI development team. Work with and support the development team to implement and test these report requirements

• Collaborate continuously with the Agile Scrum team to groom, refine issues and plan sprints to implement new reporting efficiencies, achievements or scoping efforts

• Assist in communicating reporting requests to main collaborators and identify training needs

• Partner with the Digital Data Governance team to assist in data profiling, testing, and onboarding new data sets

• Point of contact for any data related reporting questions or assist with fix data related issues

• Partner with QA/Hypercare teams to ensure relevant tagging and data issues have been resolved or are being supervised

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail

• Analyze current business processes and make recommendations for improvement based on industry trends and professional business knowledge

• Improve training and operational procedures within a business to improve efficiency and productivity

• Be responsible for implementation projects from beginning to completion.

• Use a Variety of data analysis and organization tools to discover the most impactful insights.

Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a role associated with reporting, analytics, and/or data management

• Demonstrated understanding of the fundamentals of digital marketing and advertising including multichannel and omnichannel

• Demonstrable experience working with detailed report visualizations and data management

• Experience with gathering user requirements, developing system documentation, testing or analytical business reports

• Demonstrated interest in bringing to bear digital solutions to meet critical business needs

• Experience in oral and written communication including analysis, report preparation and report presentation

• Experience working with Power BI

• Solid understanding of Data Modeling and BI Semantic Models

• Experience using digital marketing channels to achieve marketing goals

• Ability to explain business requirements to a technical audience

• Ability to build trusted relationships across a range of partner groups including Marketing, Analytics, Operations, and Technology

• Ability to handle multiple projects running in parallel

• Ability to drive outcomes while managing a team of indirect reports

• Project management experience including risk mitigation and planning

• Ability to influence, motivate, and inspire change

• Demonstrated experience in problem solving and continuous improvement

• Energetic, self-motivated, positive teammate

• Digital Operations experience

Preferred:

• 3+ years pharmaceutical brand marketing experience

• Experience working with Power BI

• Experience with agile principles and scrum delivery models

WHY JOIN US?

We’re a network of high-reaching self-starters who contribute to something far bigger. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering premier technology and data solutions.

We’re not afraid to take ownership and run with it. Empowered with unrivalled freedom. Put simply, it’s because we make a significant impact. Everything we do matters.

SO, WHAT’S NEXT?

Are you already envisioning yourself joining our team? Good, because we’d love to hear from you! Click the link to apply and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.

WHERE CAN I FIND OUT MORE?

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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.