.Join us as an Automation Lead at Alexion, AstraZeneca, where you will be responsible for managing relationships with key business stakeholders and technical partners. Your role will involve leading the generation and prioritisation of re-engineering opportunities across a range of customer groups, driving optimisation of processes through the creation of measurable roadmaps focused on quick wins and short/mid-term implementations.Accountabilities:As an Automation Lead, you will lead engagement with business leaders, process owners and IT to support identification and capture of new automation and process simplification opportunities. You will deliver e2e oversight and delivery of mapping and analysis of processes through to defining the automation strategy to deliver streamlined process and improved user experience. You will also ensure necessary change management activities are planned and delivered alongside the technical automation to secure business readiness for production.Essential Skills/Experience:Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, or related, with Six Sigma or Lean Management certificationProven experience in the analysis & re-design of complex, multi-function business processes, ideally within clinical developmentProject management experience, in one of the following: RPA, Microsoft Power Platform, Workflow or Low Code automationProven analytical skills with experience of process change and project implementation within clinical developmentUnderstanding of regulatory requirements and inspection readinessAbility to operate dynamically with effective verbal/written communication, influencing, and partnering skillsComfortable with working virtually in a global environmentWillingness to work 3 days a week from the office and work flexible hours (as required)Fluency in English and comfortable with working virtually in a global environmentDesirableSignificant experience of various related BPM capabilities i.E. Process/Task Mining, Robotics Process Automation, Low Code automation, BPM, workflow tools.Experience and proven results of change projects within the Pharma industryExperience of working globallyWhen we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire 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 unique and ambitious world.At AstraZeneca, we are driven by our mission to bring patients closer. We are built to serve patients and everything we do is led by their lived experience. We champion diversity and foster a culture that celebrates innovation and the power of connection to patient's lived experiences
