Senior Business Partner - Regulatory - R&DIT
AstraZeneca

Job Info

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R&DIT - Senior Business Partner - Regulatory - Gaithersburg, MD

Here our work has a direct impact on patients - transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working, combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. All with a passion to impact lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning and more.

It's a dynamic and challenging environment to work in - but that's why we like it. There are countless opportunities to learn and grow, whether that's exploring new technologies in hackathons, or transforming the roles and work of colleagues, forever. This is your chance to be part of a team that has the backing to innovate, disrupt an industry and change lives.

THIS IS WHAT YOU'LL DO

This role requires a hybrid set of technical, business domain, and leadership skills. You are expected to perform as a leader-doer with the ability to inspire and motivate an agile and diverse team of professionals in a complex matrix organization. This role is a mix of leading a team and building a relationship of trust with our stakeholders, anchored by strong technical and domain expertise and continuous learning and development.

Come join our team as a leader in transforming IT in ways the biopharma industry has never seen.

Typical Accountabilities:

You will work with business units in R&D, focusing on the Regulatory Excellence. You will be a leader and advocate for Regulatory organization, working collaboratively as part of a customer-facing R&D IT team. In this role, you will work collaboratively with other BRMs in Patient Safety, Quality capability as wel as broader R&D IT, and be expected to develop and leverage relationships with strategic external partners and a global IT matrix spanning 3,000+ people across the US, UK, Sweden, China, Japan, Poland, and India. Regulatory BRMs are expected to develop domain and technical expertise across Safety, Regulatory and QA domains and take on special/opportunistic projects outside of his/her core domain.

The core accountabilities of the role include:

• Building strong strategic relationships with complex customer groups and senior stakeholders, developing a deep understanding of the short-term and long-term business direction.
• Developing and maintaining the stakeholder management plan, conducting continuous stakeholder analysis, and working cross-functionally to align on strategy and plans
• Assessing and prioritizing Late Stage requirements in line with IT strategy, and influencing IT strategy where appropriate
• Managing a portfolio of IT investments, prioritized to align with emerging business strategy
• Facilitating accurate IT demand forecasting, planning, and delivery collaboratively with other supporting IT team roles
• Leading high-level investigations on requirements specifications and feasibility studies, developing a range of options aligned to business and IT strategy
• Leading business impact assessments, identifying risks and issues that may affect current and future business units and roles, and create business readiness plan
• Partnering with key stakeholders on the development of detailed business cases for new IT solutions
• Proactively identifying opportunities for IT to deliver innovative technology solutions to provide competitive advantage
• Presenting and gaining buy-in from senior leaders for IT initiatives, leveraging domain knowledge to gain credibility, trust, and commitment

YOU WILL NEED TO HAVE

• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in and knowledge of bio-pharma industry
• Demonstrated delivery of significant scientific information systems.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of the Patient Safety/Regulatory domains.
• Extensive knowledge of scientific and clinical pharmaceutical processes.
• Proven ability to interpret and communicate technical and scientific information.
• Substantial experience in managing and delivering business change through IT projects and delivering results.
• Experience of building high value business cases & mobilizing high value investments.
• Experience of leading teams with a demonstrable track record of motivational and achievement-oriented leadership.
• Proven ability to operate across multiple domains and ambiguity.
• High school diploma required. Bachelor's degree or advanced degree in related field preferred.

WHY JOIN US

Here our work has a direct impact on patients - transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working, combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. All with a passion to impact lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning and more.

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.

ABOUT ASTRAZENECA

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven BioPharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious disease. But we're more than one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.

At AstraZeneca we're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There's no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

SO, WHAT NEXT?

If you're interested in applying, we encourage you to apply using your completed Workday profile where possible.

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.

AstraZeneca requires all US employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 but will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.

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