Site Procurement & Logistics Senior Analyst

Introduction to role:

Are you energized by orchestrating the flow of materials and services that keep labs moving and science advancing? This role places you at the center of a fast-evolving function where decisions made across purchasing, inventory, and logistics directly influence how quickly breakthrough science translates into impact for patients and the business.

 Here, you will help reinvent how we source, ship, and sustain critical lab operations—combining sharp execution with a commercial mindset to create value beyond cost. Can you see yourself building resilient supply chains, simplifying processes, and partnering with scientists and suppliers to remove friction and accelerate delivery?

Accountabilities:

• Purchasing Coordination: Align material, consumable, equipment, and third-party service purchases with lab needs, budgets, and approvals to ensure timely and compliant supply.

• Order Lifecycle Management: Own requisitioning through PO creation, vendor communications, tracking, receiving, and discrepancy resolution to deliver right-first-time outcomes.

• Shipments and Compliance: Oversee inbound and outbound shipments with accurate documentation, customs compliance where applicable, and swift issue resolution to protect timelines.

• Inventory Control: Maintain accurate stock levels through tracking, cycle counts, reorder thresholds, and expiry management to safeguard critical experiments and operations.

• Equipment and Facility Support: Partner with the Lab Operations Manager on maintenance scheduling, service coordination, and downtime mitigation to maximize lab uptime.

• Waste Management: Administer segregation, labeling, storage, scheduling, and compliant disposal with approved vendors to uphold safety and regulatory standards.

• Receiving and Reconciliation: Ensure robust receiving procedures, reconcile packing slips and invoices, and follow up on delayed, damaged, or incorrect deliveries to maintain integrity of records.

• Supplier Partnership: Assist in identifying, qualifying, and monitoring suppliers; support selection and contracting in collaboration with the Lab Operations Manager to strengthen performance.

• Quote-to-Service Execution: Obtain and compare quotes, place orders for approved services, and monitor delivery versus scope, timeline, and quality to meet commitments.

• Data and Reporting: Maintain procurement records, SOPs, dashboards, and prepare routine reports on spend, supplier performance, inventory status, and KPIs to inform decisions.

• Continuous Improvement: Drive enhancements in procurement, inventory, and logistics to reduce cost, lead time, and risk while elevating service to the labs.

• Safety and Compliance: Adhere to EHS, biosafety, and compliance requirements; enforce good documentation practices and audit readiness across all procurement activities.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Demonstrated experience coordinating purchases of materials, consumables, equipment, and third-party services aligned to operational needs, budgets, and approvals in a life sciences laboratory (preference to cell and molecular biology laboratory).

• Hands-on expertise managing end-to-end order lifecycle, including requisitioning, PO creation, vendor communication, tracking, receiving and discrepancy resolution.

• Knowledge of shipment documentation and customs requirements, with the ability to secure timely and compliant deliveries for biological materials.
  Proficiency in inventory management, including cycle counts, reordering thresholds, and expiry tracking for critical supplies.

• Experience supporting equipment and facility maintenance scheduling, service coordination, and downtime mitigation.

• Practical knowledge of biological waste management processes in a regulated environment, including segregation, labeling, storage, scheduling, and compliant disposal.

• Strong receiving and reconciliation skills, including packing slip and invoice alignment and proactive issue follow-up.

• Experience assisting in supplier identification, qualification, performance monitoring, and supporting selection and contracting activities.

• Ability to obtain and compare quotes, execute orders for approved services, and monitor service delivery against scope, timeline, and quality expectations.

• Confidence maintaining procurement records, SOPs, and dashboards, and preparing routine reports on spend, supplier performance, inventory status, and KPIs.

• A track record of driving continuous improvement to reduce cost, lead time, and risk while improving service levels.

• Working knowledge of EHS, biosafety, and compliance requirements, with rigorous documentation discipline and audit readiness.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience in a life sciences laboratory, pharmaceutical, biotech operations environment.

• Familiarity with ERP and e-procurement platforms, inventory systems, and data visualization tools.

• Exposure to import/export processes, cold-chain logistics, or time-sensitive shipping.

• Proficiency in process improvement methodologies and root-cause problem solving.

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to collaborate across functions and levels.

Why AstraZeneca:

Join a company where bold ideas move quickly from concept to reality, with unexpected teams in the same room unleashing bold thinking to improve patient outcomes. You will work with diverse, globally connected colleagues who balance ambition with kindness and who value learning, agility, and initiative. Backed by investment and an enterprise-wide outlook, we are transforming how we make commercial decisions—combining strategy and execution to elevate impact. Your work will help ensure our science reaches patients reliably and efficiently, while giving you wide exposure, real responsibility, and the chance to shape smarter ways of working that endure.

Call to Action:
If you’re ready to turn operational excellence into measurable impact for patients and the business, step forward and show us how you will raise the bar in this pivotal role.

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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.