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: Senior Consultant - Business Performance Analyst
Grade - D
Introduction to role
As a Global IT function, IGNITE accelerates the impact of technology, data, and AI to fuel AstraZeneca’s Bold Ambition. The Business Operations and Transformation Team enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of IGNITE by developing and implementing strategies and transformation initiatives that drive operational improvements and optimize processes, ensuring that IGNITE achieves its strategic goals.
The core of this role is to drive improvements in Business Performance through the power of data-driven insights. You will work closely with the Senior Leader community in IGNITE to develop data visualizations to enable accelerated time to decision making, provide data-driven insights, and establish performance measures to maintain the operational health and productivity of IGNITE.
Accountabilities
We are seeking a dynamic IGNITE Business Performance Analyst to join our Business Operations and Transformation Team. This role will be an integral part of our team and pivotal in ensuring that IGNITE business operations run efficiently and effectively. As a key contributor, you will drive the smooth functioning of our business operations, facilitate financial management and reporting processes, manage our cloud funding model, and enable operational transformation initiatives through data-driven insights.
Key responsibilities include:
- Business Performance: Support assessment of all aspects of business performance in the functional area: create and design appropriate measures, evaluate metrics and outputs, and report on business performance and trends so that IGNITE understands business performance against key indicators, risks, and actions to mitigate risks.
- Financial Management & Reporting Processes: Collaborate with the IGNITE finance business partner to enable the efficient execution of quarterly financial reporting cycles, including increased transparency through reporting.
- Cloud Funding Model Management: Oversee the operations of a cloud funding model, specifically its demand management, cost allocation, and recharge processes, ensuring accuracy of recharges and demand in alignment with business objectives.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with key stakeholders such as project managers and budget owners to understand demand needs, provide insights, and maintain accurate reporting.
- Operational Efficiency: Collaborate in the optimization and improvements of business operational processes to ensure efficient and effective operations within IGNITE.
- Enabling Transformation: Collaborate with the head of Business Operations and Transformation and the wider team on transformational initiatives that improve the business operations of IGNITE.
- Continuous Improvement: Through data and process analysis, identify potential areas for improvement in IGNITE’s business operations.
Essential Skills/Experience
- A degree or equivalent qualification or relevant professional experience.
- Background and experience in business operations
- Background and experience in Business Performance
- Ability to analyze data and provide actionable insights in business language
- Background and experience in maintaining financial operations
- Working knowledge of BI and Portfolio Tools (e.g. PowerBI, Snowflake)
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Proven experience in life sciences, healthcare, or other related field
- Knowledge of technology, data, and AI
- Knowledge of data analysis and process improvement
At AstraZeneca, we are shaping our digital journey by uniting technologies, tools, and platforms with our collective expertise to drive our transformational journey forward. We leverage leading technologies and explore data to make improved decisions that help us reach the right outcomes quicker. Our ever-changing environment encourages us to challenge, innovate, and find bold new ways of approaching everyday tasks. We empower our diverse team of specialists to explore and express their ideas freely while continuously expanding their knowledge.
Join us now to make a significant impact on AstraZeneca's growth!
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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