Introduction to role:

Are you ready to turn complex HR, Legal and Compliance needs into scalable, data-led solutions that accelerate our impact for patients? Can you see yourself shaping a high-visibility portfolio where clarity, speed and value delivery are the norm?

In this role, you will sit at the intersection of business strategy and analytics execution, translating demand from HR, Legal and Compliance into solutions that unlock insight, streamline processes and enable confident decision-making.

You will guide a dynamic portfolio, connecting stakeholders to the right enterprise capabilities and ensuring every project lands with measurable outcomes.

You will join a high-energy team that thrives on modern technology and digital innovation, operating at pace to fuel the evolution of the enterprise. Your leadership will help the business adapt faster, work smarter and focus on what matters most for patients and colleagues.

Accountabilities:

• Stakeholder Partnership: Represent the Process & Analytics Solutions function to HR, Legal and Compliance leaders, deeply understanding their strategies, challenges and demand to shape solutions that matter.
• Portfolio Shaping: Convert business opportunities into a prioritized, outcome-focused portfolio and connect stakeholders with the most relevant enterprise capabilities to maximize value.
• End-to-End Delivery: Lead the delivery of multiple complex projects from initiation through implementation and transition, ensuring clear scope, priorities, milestones, outcomes and business value.
• Senior Relationship Management: Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, aligning expectations and securing buy-in for decisions and trade-offs.
• Delivery Governance: Establish disciplined governance with progress reporting, risk and issue management, dependency tracking, financial oversight and effective escalation to maintain momentum.
• Translating Requirements: Turn business requirements into actionable delivery plans and orchestrate seamless collaboration between business, analytics/data and technology teams.
• Risk and Issue Management: Identify delivery risks and blockers early, drive timely resolution and escalate with context to protect critical outcomes.
• Resource and Quality Management: Plan and manage resources, budgets, timelines and quality standards to deliver reliably and at pace.
• Continuous Improvement: Improve delivery processes, standards and ways of working to increase predictability, speed and value over time.
• People Leadership: Lead, coach and develop project delivery professionals, creating clear accountabilities and strong delivery disciplines.
• Portfolio Insight and Decision Support: Provide portfolio insights, recommendations and decision support to senior leadership to guide investments and prioritization.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Strong experience working with HR or Compliance data
• Strong experience delivering complex, cross-functional projects from initiation through implementation and transition.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities, dependencies and delivery timelines.
• Ability to establish and manage a pipeline of projects.
• Strong prioritisation skills, balancing strategic value, customer demand, capacity and dependencies.
• Strong relationship-building, influencing and communication skills.
• Confidence working with and presenting to senior leaders.
• Ability to translate complex delivery challenges into clear options and recommendations.
• Experience working in a matrix organisation and leading cross functional project teams.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Experience with analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) and data platforms used to enable enterprise insights
• Familiarity with HRIS (e.g., Workday) and GRC/Compliance systems and associated data models and processes
• Formal project/program management credentials (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, Agile) and proven application in hybrid delivery environments
• Background in change management, design thinking or product-oriented delivery across global stakeholders
• Experience operating in regulated industries or large-scale, multinational enterprises
• Demonstrated ability to mature delivery standards, governance and portfolio prioritization frameworks
• Strong financial acumen for portfolio planning, business casing and benefits realization
• Advanced degree in a relevant discipline is a plus.

Why AstraZeneca:

Join a global community where bold ideas, data-driven decisions and modern technology converge to move the business forward and ultimately benefit patients.

You will work side by side with unexpected teams in the same room, unleashing bold thinking and translating it into real change—streamlining processes, improving data handling and enabling smarter ways of working across the enterprise.

We blend ambition with support, valuing kindness alongside high performance, so you can take smart risks, learn fast and build an unrivalled reputation while contributing to a purpose that matters.

Call to Action:

Step into a high-impact portfolio and shape how insight, process excellence and delivery discipline power our mission—bring your leadership to AstraZeneca and create outcomes you’ll be proud of.

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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.