Ops-it - Regional Business Analyst Lead

**OPS-IT - Regional Business Analyst Lead - Gaithersburg, Wilmington, Newark, Mount Vernon,Canovanas, West Chester, Coppell, Cotia, Lomas Verdes, Redwood City - TJ.V5****ABOUT THE **OPERATIONS IT **TEAM**Operations IT is a global IT capability supporting the Global Operations organisation. We business partner with Operations capability areas: Pharmaceutical Technology Development, Manufacturing & Global Engineering, Quality Control, Sustainability, Supply Chain, Logistics and Global External Sourcing and Procurement. We operate out of Operations hubs sites including in the UK, Sweden, US, and China; and out of our Global Technology Centres in India and Mexico.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**The Senior Business Analyst role provides a unique opportunity to play a critical role in helping to transform the business through analyzing complex business and system opportunities. These agile resources help bridge the gap between the business and other IT teams in our organization to improve efficiency. They proactively seek out opportunities to enhance and improve processes and technology solutions in line with strategic goals, ensuring that the solutions delivered to thebusiness are efficient and effective, meeting the customer experience expectations.Business Analyst will proactively find ways to improve current processes/solutions, ensuring they are fully optimized and scalable.The role will partner with Sr. Business Partners/Business Partners to ensure the quality of business cases, oversee business process design and ensure that proposed solutions meet established AstraZeneca quality and compliance standards, and customer experience needs.The Senior Business Analyst operates with a high level of interactive communication to set clear direction for others, demonstrating high levels of inclusion and cultural sensitivity. In addition, the Senior Business Analyst will lead and mentor other Business Analysts to develop their skills, drive consistent ways of working across our organization and share best practices in relevant communities of practice.The Business Analyst is expected to perform at Expert level in the following:- Understand and prioritize business requirements from multiple stakeholders on an enterprise level to assess and define business need and area for improvement.- Interpret business requirements and simplify them for easy analysis, solution design and decision making positively impact/solve major risks/issues. In addition, being highly responsive to changing business priorities.- Work with Regional Leadership teams, as well as other region/site stakeholders and BPOs to propose and deliver solutions to achieve agreed outcomes, ensure that solutions fulfil the future strategic needs and challenges of the business. Shape and define business cases, producing detailed business justification for investment including ROI and benefits realization.- Strategically lead design sessions with the business and implementation team to identify functional and technical requirements- Work with colleagues across the BTG and C4Es, (e.g., architects and engineers) across functions or Internationally to identify the capabilities required to ensure outcomes/requirements are clearly understood and can be delivered. Work with Process/Product owners to identify and devise solutions that optimize business process performance, capability and competitiveness.- Hands on leadership, planning, coordination, and delivery of leading-edge projects across functions or Internationally in own field of specialism. Creating and being fully accountable for a communication/engagement plan for project and stakeholders.- Drive the collation of information from relevant sources for analysis and reporting relevant data trends for informed decision making for major positive business impact.- Communicate and advise at a high level with the relevant stakeholders using high level of interactive communication to set clear direction for the team.- Assess workload across the team and to manage heavy projects, prioritization, and workload sharing. Own projects, understand & scope project requirements and map out delivery plan. Accountable for performance and quality of work delivered, both their own and th