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: Technical Product Lead
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Introduction to role:
Are you ready to turn complex supply chain data into intelligent products that accelerate medicines to patients? Do you thrive at the intersection of product leadership, sophisticated analytics and real-world impact?
As a Technical Product Lead, you will drive the strategy and delivery of data and AI products that power planning, sourcing and delivery across our global operations. You will partner with experts across manufacturing, supply chain, and technology to shape a product portfolio that boosts reliability, speed and agility, while introducing GenAI capabilities that elevate decision-making and productivity.
This is a hands-on leadership role that blends product thinking with technical depth. You will translate bold goals into clear roadmaps, orchestrate cross-functional delivery, and scale solutions with robust engineering practices. Your work will help the business perform at its peak—shortening cycles, improving service levels, and ultimately getting life-changing medicines to patients faster.
Accountabilities:
- Product Strategy and Alignment: Lead the development of technical products aligned with business goals, focusing on high-value supply chain outcomes and measurable impact.
- Coordinate the discovery, build, and operation of advanced analytics and machine learning solutions. This includes work from PoC to secure, observable, and reliable production. Ensure value is realized at scale. le.
- Roadmap Decomposition: Break down feature epics into technical tasks, manage dependencies across teams, and remove blockers to maintain delivery momentum.
- Quality, Scale, and Sustainability: Ensure high-quality, scalable, and sustainable product delivery through strong engineering standards, data governance, and performance management.
- Stake-holder Partnership: Collaborate with technology and business teams to design and deliver innovative solutions, bringing together product, data science, engineering, and operations.
- Research and Innovation: Conduct research to drive continuous improvement and innovation, including evaluating and piloting GenAI tools where they can amplify productivity and insights.
- Resource Optimization: Optimize resource allocation through data-driven prioritization, balancing short-term wins with long-term platform health.
- Product Excellence and Standards: Maintain high standards for in-house products and tools, codifying standard processes and reusability across teams.
- Near-term Delivery: Lead the build of AI-powered supply chain use cases such as forecasting, planning, quality, and logistics, demonstrating clear business outcomes.
- Long-term Scaling and Governance: Establish the frameworks, patterns, and operating model to continuously deliver, scale, and sustain a growing product portfolio.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Exposure of Pharma Supply Chain Domain
- Experience of delivering Digital products using Data, Analytics, AI technologies.
- Expertise in Data Analytics, AI technologies.
- Experience leading complex data, AI projects.
- Proficiency in the full software development lifecycle.
- Strong communication and stake-holder leadership skills.
- Experience working in Agile teams.
- Bachelor's - degree in IT, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related field.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Master's - Degree, M.B.A, or Ph.d in a relevant field
- Product/Project Management experience in Data, Analytics & AI solutions
- Previous involvement in a large multinational company, Pharmaceutical or similar environment
- Awareness of use case specific GenAI tools available in the market and their application in day-to-day work scenarios.
- Possess working knowledge of basic prompting techniques and continuously improve these skills.
- Stay up-to-date with developments in AI and GenAI, applying new insights to work-related situations
Why AstraZeneca:
Join a global technology and data community that partners across boundaries to unlock the potential of science through digital products. Here, diverse minds gather—engineers, data scientists, product leaders, and supply chain experts in the same room—sparking bold ideas and turning them into reality. We are doubling down on our data-led ambition, investing in modern platforms and empowering teams to experiment, learn fast and scale what works. You will find the freedom to own outcomes, the backing to tackle complex challenges, and a culture that values courtesy alongside ambition. Your work will have a direct line of sight to patients, improving how medicines are made and delivered worldwide.
Call to Action:
Seize this opportunity to lead data and AI products that transform supply chains and accelerate patient impact—bring your expertise to AstraZeneca and help shape what’s next today!
Date Posted
20-May-2026Closing Date
28-May-2026AstraZeneca 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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