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Associate Director – IT Business Partner
| Company | AstraZeneca |
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| Location | Boston, MA, USA |
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| Salary | $125365.6 – $188048.4 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Minimum 7+ years of experience
- Demonstrated IT experience in functional areas and exposure to business operations managing IT portfolios
- Project management experience required, development and support of complex projects and solutions
- Experience in CRM and/or Salesforce.com/Veeva experience a plus
- Understanding of marketing and digital technologies; hands-on experience a plus
- Experience working with various analytical tools and reports that support a commercial business
- Experience working in a multi-disciplined, multi-functional matrix organization
- Experience working in Biotech, Medical Device or Pharmaceutical industry
- Understanding of SDLC guidelines
- Understanding of corporate compliance and government regulations
Responsibilities
- Work closely with senior U.S. business unit leaders and attend cross-functional leadership team staff meetings.
- Partner and collaborate with other US and Global Commercial IT Business partners to understand business demand and drive solutions.
- Work with Sales & Marketing teams at a strategic level to develop detailed launch plans for new product introductions.
- Create long-range technology roadmaps by business unit, considering architecture and business process design.
- Manage select projects assigned and work closely as a trusted business partner to implement these projects.
- Ensure projects are included within the portfolio and tracked appropriately.
- Manage both capital and opex project funding, including initiating internal requests and purchase orders for suppliers.
- Translate business requirements to functional requirements for commercial objectives.
- Develop therapeutic-specific roadmaps and portfolios in collaboration with US Commercial IT Business partners.
- Ensure alignment with the Commercial Business Operations teams.
- Collaborate with international regions to share projects and standard processes.
- Maintain the portfolio of projects and initiatives across customer portfolios.
- Support customer needs with strong knowledge of data and digital operations.
- Coordinate and own the business process design and implementation of technology solutions with IT Enterprise Application team, Digital team & Service Delivery Team.
- Spearhead projects to identify process improvements for business processes.
- Analyze software tools from business requirements to lead fast responses.
- Build and implement processes for seamless ongoing support for commercial solutions at all levels.
- Document business processes in collaboration with the business.
- Build required SDLC / SOP documentation like Case, User Requirements specification, UAT plan, etc.
- Ensure compliance in all systems based on business initiatives.
- Partner with systems administrator/developer to develop requirements.
- Lead development and execution of test scripts as required.
- Perform other function-related activities as reasonably required by business needs.
- Meet with business partners routinely to report on status of existing work in process and understand evolving needs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of agile practices a plus
- Experience in CRM and/or Salesforce.com/Veeva experience a plus
- Understanding of marketing and digital technologies; hands-on experience a plus
