Why choose AstraZeneca Portugal?
As an exciting and emerging leader in pharma and biotech, we're pushing the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. This is where breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. Voted the best company to work for in Portugal 2023/24, AstraZeneca provides the thrill of a start-up within the security of a global firm that brings new challenges and pathways for a fulfilling career.
If you’re ready to make a difference, join our Global Hub in Corporate Affairs, Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Marketing, Global Business Services or Procurement. Bring your potential to our evolving team today.
Who do we look for?
Calling all dynamic, ambitious team players. At AstraZeneca, we empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. Here, you'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
We're on the lookout for diverse minds inspired by difference who want to reach another level in their careers. Bold disrupters who confidently rise to challenges as fearless entrepreneurs. People who want to make a meaningful impact led by science in an organisation where global meets local. Join one of our offices in Lisbon and discover a culture of openness and vibrancy where diverse perspectives are encouraged and valued. Your work will have a real impact, no matter your level or function.
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. If you're technology-savvy and have a digital mindset, you can use your skills and experience to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.
Dynamic
In a constantly evolving environment dedicated to innovation, you'll use your strong sense of purpose to provide outstanding contributions. Although we're a global company, our Global Hub operates like a start-up, allowing you to work autonomously. Bring your fearlessness of improving patient outcomes, and we'll encourage your personal success.
Ambitious
Play your part in progressing a world-leading pipeline. Here, you'll improve patients' lives now and better the future of humanity. With our opportunities for continuous development, you'll exhibit your passion and potential to go beyond the expected — and grow in your career with our support.
Team players
Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of openness, sharing and giving allows everyone to speak up and express their ideas. In an open atmosphere of camaraderie and support, we rely on each other to further our progress and drive much-needed change.
Responsibilities
Introduction to the role
Do you want to help build the data foundation for a global S/4HANA transformation and speed how medicines reach patients? In this role, you will bring together direct material master data at enterprise scale. You will set common standards, improve data quality, and enable consistent operations, real-time insights, and confident decisions across our end-to-end supply chain.
You will join a high-impact transformation that changes how we plan, source, make, and deliver. You will partner with senior leaders and multi-functional teams to turn strategy into deployable data builds, tools, and controls. You will build a single, trusted backbone from diverse, market-specific material data that thousands of colleagues use every day.
Accountabilities
Strategy and cutover leadership: Lead practical consolidation and cutover strategies that enable timely, risk-managed deployments.
Deployment and rollout: Define deployment clusters and plan market rollouts to standardize material data and unlock global scale.
Tooling and reporting: Build the initial global tooling for consolidation, guide enhancements, and set clear reporting and dashboard requirements that show progress and risks.
Governance and quality: Define and implement the data quality framework for material master data, aligned to S/4 governance, to ensure go-live readiness and long-term fitness for purpose.
Decision frameworks: Establish review and approval matrices, align technical standards, and coordinate inputs for fast, high-quality decisions.
Market enablement and change: Oversee local market setup, apply consistent deployment standards and methods, and lead training and knowledge transfer for adoption.
Data cleansing and profiling: Scope and deliver data cleansing; run profiling and translate outputs into business-led consolidation decisions.
Documentation and standards: Create and maintain clear, audit-ready documentation that supports process standardization.
Keep-clean and BAU embed: Build “keep clean” capabilities and transition from project to business-as-usual controls that protect data quality and value after deployment.
Broader impact: Move from deployment delivery to shaping the enterprise S/4 data governance strategy and roadmap.
Essential skills and experience
Strong SAP skillset, particularly in Material Master or a combination of MM and PP
Strong functional experience in data quality management including data quality rules, data quality reporting, issue management and issue remediation.
Specialist knowledge of data quality management principles and practices in material master data (including data profiling, data discovery, root cause analysis, designing and implementing automated DQ solutions).
Proven track record in applying leading edge data quality enhancement capabilities covering profiling, analysis, migration, cleanse to land step-change in data quality.
Experience in managing sophisticated data quality analysis and improvement projects.
Experience in supporting sophisticated material consolidation projects.
Expertise in supporting training initiatives and comprehensive documentation management for data transformation projects focused on material master data.
Solid understanding of SAP ECC Modules and Syniti ADM.
Demonstrated ability to lead in a diverse, global team, within and across functions. Experience with global working and across cultures.
Demonstrate strong communication skills with the ability to influence others to achieve objectives.
Ability to lead and handle negotiations across a sophisticated group, to a target outcome.
Proven track record of delivery and ability to effectively prioritise to ensure goals and outcomes are achieved.
Good understanding of Master Data Management and Reference Data Management.
Ability to work with business users to elicit and formally define their requirements.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Able to lead conflicting priorities.
Desirable skills and experience
Experience leading large-scale SAP S/4HANA data transformation or ERP master data consolidation in multi-market environments.
Knowledge of direct material master data, supply chain processes, and SAP data objects; familiarity with SAP MDG, SAP Data Services, or similar tools.
Strength in stakeholder engagement with senior leaders and multi-functional teams; confident facilitation of decision forums and approvals.
Expertise in data quality, data migration, and cutover planning, including profiling, cleansing, and control design.
Experience in regulated or life sciences industries and comfort with validation and documentation standards.
Strong analytical skills with hands-on reporting/visualization (for example, Power BI) and the ability to turn profiling into business actions.
Continuous improvement attitude and experience embedding “keep clean” capabilities into BAU models.
Why AstraZeneca Technology and data work alongside science to improve how quickly and optimally we deliver for patients. You will contribute to a once-in-a-generation S/4HANA transformation that standardizes processes and data globally. This work enables real-time insight and consistent execution from bench to patient. You will collaborate across functions and geographies, with diverse teams solving real operational problems. We value patience and ambition, and we provide the tools, scale, and support to turn rigorous data governance into impact for patients and the business.
Call to action Join us to build the trusted material data backbone that powers our enterprise transformation and speeds medicines to patients. Bring your expertise and make your mark.
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Date Posted
29-jan.-2026Closing Date
14-fev.-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.
Aligned to performance
Our approach is designed to deliver great performance — stimulating our commercial growth, scientific advancement, collaboration and personal development. Never standing still, you'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career.
Balanced
An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. Typical benefits include healthcare, life insurance and long-term savings, and in many markets, there’s a range of benefits for you to tailor.
Holistic
We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. Being valued for who you are and the difference you bring is at the heart of our culture — and you’ll be rewarded when you create authentic connections to our purpose.
Sustainable
Our two offices in Lisbon combine comfort with sustainability. From renewable energy, a zero-plastic scheme, electric vehicles and food waste reduction initiatives to sustainable reward practices, we're realising our ambition to harness the power of science to build a healthy future for everyone everywhere.
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