Are you experienced in, and passionate about IT leadership? Consider applying your expertise to impact the delivery of innovative business solutions to build maximum competitive advantage in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being daring, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

The BBU Omnichannel Senior Business Partner will develop strategic relationships within the Biopharmaceuticals Business Unit (BBU) to understand their priorities and identify ways for IT to partner with them in achieving and exceeding business objectives regarding use of Omnichannel. They will work closely with the Global Capabilities teams, and aligned capability roadmaps, to ensure IT solutions deliver maximum competitive advantage. The individual will negotiate outcomes based on the available BBU funding.

Typical Accountabilities

• Build strong strategic relationships with the business and senior collaborators, developing a deep understanding of the short-term and long-term business direction
• Develop and maintain the customer account plan, including accurate customer forecasting, demand planning and effective delivery of the plan
• Manage a portfolio of investments, assessing and prioritizing requirements in line with capability roadmaps and emerging business strategy
• Partner with the capability leads to influence development of the roadmaps to support the future needs of the business and in line with IT strategy
• Act as the primary negotiator of trade-offs with the business to ensure the most meaningful products and platform features are developed
• Lead high-level investigations on requirements specifications and feasibility studies, developing a range of options aligned to business and IT strategy
• Lead business impact assessments, identifying risks and issues that may affect current and future business structure and roles, and build business readiness plan
• Proactively find opportunities for IT to deliver innovative technology solutions to provide competitive advantage
• Present and gain dedication to IT initiatives, using specialist knowledge to gain dedication to established or new IT services, and promote reuse

Essential Education, Qualifications, and Experience

• Evidence of leading innovative solutions
• Awareness of omnichannel marketing strategies & underlying technology.
• A proven track record of delivering results
• Experience of building high value arguments & mobilising high value investments
• Experience of leading in a matrix organisation with a demonstrable track record of motivational and leadership
• Strong network and consulting skills
• Strong influencing, networking and team working skills
• High level awareness of developments in the Information Technology marketplace
• Demonstrate strong relationship building skills with the ability to influence others to achieve objectives
• Proficiency in planning, change management and problem solving and able to resolve issues of a complex and strategic nature
• Proven ability to relate and respond to business needs in an IT environment
• Ability to manage negotiations, expectations and solutions across complex groups
• Ability to partner and work in a matrix organisation
• Bachelor's Degree Required
• 7 years of experience as a Business Partner or Equivalent

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Why join us:

Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth. Focused and committed, and backed with the investment to succeed, we’re driving cross-company change to disrupt the entire industry.

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