Senior Specialist

Job Title: Senior Specialist

Career Level: D3

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to be a key doer in crafting the future of workplace data strategy? As a Senior Specialist in Workplace Strategy & Innovation (WSI), you'll perform business analysis and document data requirements, enabling small to medium-sized business change activities. You'll partner with the WSI IT Business Relationship Manager to deliver high-quality business data requirements and ensure solutions meet AstraZeneca's quality and compliance standards. Lead the charge on WSI data systems, reporting, and project activity tracking, while driving functional improvements and handling day-to-day operations.

Accountabilities:

In this dynamic role, you'll explore external Real Estate data usage, assess AstraZeneca's data needs, and find opportunities for strategic improvement. You'll plan and handle analytical work, engage collaborators, and contribute to change management. Define business requirements, evaluate solutions, and own WSI data systems and reporting. Collaborate with business collaborators, IT teams, finance, facilities, and site management to optimize processes and ensure accurate property lease records.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Proven experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
• Proven experience of working with complex coordinated systems, using creative and strategic thinking to deliver outstanding results
• Strong engagement, communication and stakeholder leadership skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
• Experience of working in a regulated environment
• Experience and in-depth understanding of Corporate Real Estate data including Lease Abstraction and Administration
• Proven experience in data analytics including Python, and SQL Script
• Proven and demonstrable experience in creation of Power BI reports
• Business insight
• Challenge, negotiation and influence
• Presentation, Communication & Facilitation
• Customer Focus
• Stakeholder Management
• Benefits Management and Realisation
• Networking
• Compliance
• Planning
• Business Process Management

Desirable Skills/Experience:

Formal certification in business analysis practice

• Experience of working in a global organisation with sophisticated/geographical context
• Cross industry business awareness/business domain knowledge
• Knowledge of FM typical working procedures/norms and data requirement’s
• Experience in completing data mapping and requirements with multiple collaborators with different needs and drivers
• User Centred Design (User Experience, User Interface Design and Business Process Design)
• Data mining and segmentation

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we ignite ambitious thinking with the power to encourage 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 outstanding and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, you'll be part of a dedicated global team that fuels our rapidly growing enterprise. We demonstrate exciting technology and digital innovations to accelerate evolution, impacting patients' lives worldwide. Our entrepreneurial spirit drives creativity and smart risks, encouraging a dynamic environment where bright minds unite to support each other. With countless opportunities for growth, you'll build an outstanding reputation while contributing to something bigger—making a difference in patients' lives.

Ready to take on this exciting challenge? Apply now to join our team!

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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.