Business Analyst

**Business Analyst**

**About the AstraZeneca**

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

At AstraZeneca, we're proud to have a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration. Here, employees are empowered to express diverse perspectives - and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity.

**About the team**

You will be joining Global Commercial IT, OBU— an outstanding engagement organization at the forefront of the technology revolution in healthcare for AstraZeneca. It supplies the technology, engineering, data and analytics expertise which delivers the Commercial Platform underpinning AstraZeneca’s data and digital strategy. We are looking for data, technology and change guides to join GCIT that will ensure this ambition is met.

**About The role**

The Business Analyst performs business analysis and design either alone delivering small to medium size business change activities; or as a member or lead of a BA team in a large or global business change. The Business Analyst operates with a high level of interactive communication, demonstrating high levels of inclusion and cultural sensitivity.

The role will partner with the Business Relationship Manager, taking responsibility to deliver high quality business cases, business process designs and ensure that proposed solutions meet established AstraZeneca quality and compliance standards and business solution needs.

The Business Analyst will share best practices in relevant communities of practice, contributing to internal IT processes and standards for business analysis and design.

**The Business Analyts** **will be accountable for**:

- Complete feasibility assessment for all new campaign designs and engagement with the Product Owner and business at an early stage to identify and select a commercially pragmatic Technology solution that delivers value as quickly as possible to HCPs, patients and AZ.
- Prompt engineering of tools and technologies to generate output that is relevant tot he end user with AI/Gen AI Technologies
- Raise demand with “new component” delivery team, and answer so the team can deliver Platform level improvements.
- Take ownership of the technical aspects related to data structures, processes, and interfaces within the web portal. Continuously improve and optimize these aspects to enhance system performance. Engage and plan enhancements based on current Tech Stack and look for sustainable scalability with new technology whilst enhancing customer engagement with Omnichannel Ecosystem.
- Collaborate with IT teams to evaluate, select, and implement technologies and third-party vendors to support the omnichannel ecosystem. Coordinate with other leads to align resources and ensure integration needs are executed in parallel with ecosystem roadmap requirements.

**Requirements**:
**Essential**
- Bachelor’s Degree is required.
- Two plus years in the pharmaceutical industry
- Minimum of 5 years documenting business requirements and developing and communicating arguments, experience working with JIRA and Agile methodologies
- Experience of working in a global organization with complex/geographical context
- Ability to drive results in white space and articulate clearly in a concise manner.
- Experience of working with complex integrated systems, using creative and critical thinking to deliver exceptional results.
- Engagement, communication, and collaborator management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills.
- Experience of virtual collaboration to lead, shape and develop innovative solutions.
- Experience of working with and managing third party suppliers/vendors
- High standard of written and spoken English
- Proven experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change.
- Good understanding of networks, databases and other technology
- Agile tools and methodologies inc. JIRA.
- Professional experience as a product manager of integrations of data exchange products, particularly in SFDC
- Strong experience in developing, deploying and managing technical integrations across the MarTech ecosystems
- Proven experience in CRM management and omnichannel integration within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry, preferably in the oncology segment.
- Ability and willingness to get into the details technically, either through prior hands-on experience integrating APIs or through close prior experience working with engineers, such that you can comprehensively articulate and scope an integration’s technical needs and business implications with both internal engineers and external business stakeholders
- Exceptional technical project management skills
- Communicati