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 Manager, SPQ - Portfolio Management
Career Level - E
Introduction to role
The Senior Portfolio Manager, SPQ - Portfolio Management is responsible for supporting various activities across the IT portfolio. The portfolio is delivered by the IT function supporting multiple AstraZeneca business units and locations. The scope of this role is related to supporting IT project portfolio activities specifically. While the SPQ Portfolio Team includes support for non-IT users of the ServiceNow SPM tool, this role will focus on IT-related portfolio activities.
This role will apply portfolio management knowledge and capabilities to support the execution of portfolio activities, improve practices, standards, reporting, and tools. This role will leverage change management principles to drive the adoption of changes to IT portfolio management processes across the IT organization.
The successful candidate will be a self-starter who can prioritize their work, build links with IT team members, and lead change initiatives to deliver on the team’s and their personal goals and objectives.
As part of the broader Strategy, Performance & Quality Portfolio Team, this role is expected to contribute to how we:
- Simplify to relentlessly create capacity,
- Standardize by vigorously pursuing standard processes across IT,
- Evolve by pioneering new ways of working, and
- Safeguard through the proactive maturation of IT processes and systems to enable #OneAZ.
Accountabilities
Support the SPQ Portfolio Leads in various activities related to new project start-up, portfolio oversight & reporting, and communications. This may include supporting some or all of the following activities:
- Preparations for Portfolio Review or Portfolio Health sessions
- Reporting on and identifying outliers in baseline reporting
- Conversion of Demands to Projects including carrying out necessary data and process checks
- Requesting new project codes
- Maintaining related project financial master data
- Closing completed projects
- General communications to IT Portfolio partners in alignment with overall SPQ Portfolio communication plan
- Support validation of monthly actuals load data (pre & post load) in partnership with SPQ Portfolio Perfection team
- Support review and validation of Bill of IT alignment with portfolio collaborators and action updates as needed
Liaison for the Central IS portfolio owners related to communications, organisational change, and any ServiceNow support needed including supporting the adoption of changes to IT portfolio management-related processes in this team member group.
Responsible for the creation and maintenance of IT Portfolio process and guidance artifacts which could include maintaining a training portal, ServiceNow Knowledge articles, or other documentation. This may include maintaining a PowerApps solution for training resources related to IT portfolio financial processes.
Work collaboratively with SPQ Portfolio Leads, functional leaders, and wider IT team to identify and implement IT portfolio process improvements based on effective measurement & continuous improvement. This may include:
- Configuring and applying ServiceNow Process Mining to identify IT portfolio process improvement opportunities for SPM workflows (e.g., idea, demand, and project)
- Identifying automation opportunities to benefit Global IT.
- Proactively escalate and resolve critical issues.
Essential Skills/Experience
- Bachelor's degree required
- 3+ years' experience Project / Portfolio management / PMO activities
- 1+ years’ experience in IT business or financial management
- 1+ years' experience leading cross-functional teams
- Understanding of portfolio management in areas like finance and resources
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with strong customer focus and attention to detail
- Self-starter with the ability to optimally multi-task, prioritize workload to meet deadlines
- Passion for process improvement and enhancing team member experiences
- Strong critical thinking and process optimization skills
- Skilled in presenting to senior leaders
- Comfortable operating in sophisticated, global matrix organizations
- Excellent in teamwork, influencing, and team leadership
- Skilled in conflict resolution and change management
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Familiarity with ServiceNow SPM
- Lean and/or Agile certification
- Practical experience with Agile and Waterfall delivery
- Strong data analytics and PowerBI skills
- Knowledge of automation tools like Power Automate
- Experience with or knowledge of Change Management frameworks
- Prior project management experience in ADF, ITIL or similar methodologies
- Experience in the pharmaceutical industry or the specific business area
- Ability to identify risks and issues in IT environments
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.
Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day. Integrated and closely aligned with the whole enterprise, we offer our expertise and leverage exciting new technology and digital innovations to accelerate AstraZeneca's evolution. We thrive in our fast-paced environment, always looking ahead to new challenges and improving how we operate today. Our entrepreneurial spirit keeps us ahead of the rest as we apply creativity to every task. With countless opportunities available, this is the place to build an unrivaled reputation while being rewarded for your successes.
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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