Senior IT Business Operations Partner - Luton, United Kingdom - AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca

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Luton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Senior IT Business Operations Partner

Macclesfield, Luton (UK) Gothenburg (Sweden) Gaithersburg, Wilmington (USA)

JOB ROLE

The Senior Business Partner works closely with Senior Stakeholders providing functional planning and performance management services as well as driving transformation change.

They develop strategic management plans and lead transformation initiatives, whilst running performance measurement processes linking strategic objectives to key performance indicators, to drive the delivery of IT2025 and improve the overall performance of the function and IT as a whole.

Technology at AstraZeneca is a home for purposeful disruptors
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 innovative science with leading digital technology platforms and data.

All with a passion to impact lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning and more. In Business Partnering we will provide strategic partnership to the ITLT and the broader IT organisation.

We will drive continuous improvement and alignment, as well as preparing the organisation to meet the needs of the future.

As the Senior Business Partner you will collaborate with the Director of Business Partnering in IT's Strategy & Performance function.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Be a trusted partner and advisor to a senior leadership team with the purpose to enable functions to accelerate delivery, work smarter and leaner
Enable the creation, delivery and execution of key Strategy & Performance work you're doing (e.g. Strategy Cascade, Tier, Scorecard)
Support functional strategic planning, to enable organisations to become more future focussed, operationally efficient and aligned.
Be a strategic advisor to the ITLT to advise on Industry trends both inside and outside of AstraZeneca, that could help innovation and transformation.
See opportunities to improve the Service Offering of Strategy and Performance, or to help improve, standardise or transform the way that IT delivers.
Drive a continuous improvement approach and develop culture of collaboration and partnership across both S&P and IT as a whole.
Align all the areas of Strategy and Performance so that there is a seamless customer interaction and shared information flow.
Create and design appropriate measures, evaluate metrics and outputs and report on business performance and trends so that ITLT understand business performance against key indicators, risks and actions to mitigate risks
Create and lead the scorecard creation for the functional leadership team, ensuring that the measures are aligned to the strategic business priorities and provide a realistic overview of business performance against targets
Support the implementation of Key IT Initiatives to drive organisational change and improve business performance.
Lead the development and implementation of solutions to problems identified through analysis and data driven insights
Communicate performance and trends to ITLT to identify risks at the earliest stage possible

WORKS COLLOBORATIVELY

Functional leadership as the key interface and source of management of business performance against key indicators, areas of risk, and actions to mitigate risk
Functional leadership and wider IT team to create and own a Performance Improvement approach and to drive the implementation of a performance management culture based on effective measurement & continuous improvement

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Progressive experience in Consulting, IT business or financial management
Progressive experience leading multifunctional teams and building consensus and influencing senior partners.
Demonstrated ability to lead change, transform organisational operations and drive alignment
Experience with benchmarking/scorecards and reporting
Solid skills using the suite of Microsoft Office products

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE

Strong customer service orientation
Have an entrepreneurial attitude and search for new opportunities.
Have strong Critical thinking and reasoning skills
Ability to transform ambiguity into clarity
Ability to influence senior stakeholders without authority
Very comfortable with reporting and communicating to all levels of management
Strong data analytics capabilities
Strong change management (including a solid understanding of human centred change) and problem solving skills
Ability to work well in and across diverse, global teams and demonstrable ability to influence others to achieve positive outcomes
Excellence in driving process performance and efficiency improvements (Six Sigma certification a plus)

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