OpsIT Business Analyst

The Business Analyst is expected to perform at an Advanced level in the following areas:

• Understanding and prioritizing business requirements from multiple stakeholders, applying specialist knowledge where applicable. Proactively seek out opportunities to enhance and improve business services in line with strategic goals. 
• Interpreting and simplifying business requirements for easy analysis, solution design and decision making to positively impact/solve Business risks and issues. Effectively communicate impact, cost and benefits of new and changed demands 
• Providing insight & innovation to projects within own specialist area, aligning to AZ IT strategy and working with AZ IT partners
• Working with Site Leadership Teams and other regional/site stakeholders including Business Process Owners to propose and deliver solutions to achieve agreed outcomes, ensuring solutions fulfil the Business’ future strategic needs. Shape and define business cases, producing detailed business justification for investment including ROI and benefits realisation.
• Working with colleagues across the IT capability teams (e.g., architects and engineers) to identify the capabilities required to ensure outcomes/requirements and clearly understood and can be delivered. Work with Process/Product owners to identify and devise solutions that optimise business process performance, capability, and competitiveness.
• Facilitating and leading design sessions with the business and implementation team to identify functional and technical requirements
• Collating information from relevant sources for analysis and reporting relevant data trends for informed decision making for positive business impact.
• Communicating with the relevant stakeholders and transfer relevant knowledge to delivery teams, i.e., translation using levels of interactive communication and influencing skills. Contributes to communication plans and change management for project and stakeholders.

As a Project Manager, there is an expectation to perform in the following areas:

• Defining project scope and goals for small projects that deliver or support delivery of effective solutions. Setting a budget and schedule.
• Providing hands on leadership, planning, coordination, and delivery of aspects of key projects, including facilitation of meetings, tracking, reporting and communicating progress, as well as risks and issues as necessary.
• Be capable of planning and managing their own and other team member’s activities to meet deliverables and deadlines. 
• Supporting business delivery feedback from customers.

Essentials

• Proven experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
• Proven experience of working with complex integrated systems, using creative and strategic thinking to deliver exceptional results
• Strong engagement, communication and stakeholder management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
• Experience of working in a regulated environment
• Experience of virtual collaboration to lead, shape and develop innovative solutions
• Experience of working with and managing third party suppliers/vendors
• PMP or equivalent certification

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.