Senior Business Analyst

**Job Title: Senior Business Analyst**Are you ready to take on a role that lets you transform business through complex analysis and system opportunities? As a Senior Business Analyst Lead, you'll bridge the gap between business and IT teams, enhancing processes and technology solutions in line with strategic goals. You'll be responsible for analyzing business processes, leading discussions, facilitating solution definition, and integrating business processes, roles, and technology to meet business objectives. This role is a chance to lead and mentor other Business Analysts, sharing best practices and driving consistent ways of working across our organization.As a Senior Business Analyst Lead, you'll prioritize business requirements from multiple stakeholders, interpret these requirements for easy analysis, and work with regional leadership teams to propose and deliver solutions. You'll lead design sessions with the business and implementation team, work with colleagues across the BTG and C4Es to identify the capabilities required to ensure outcomes/requirements are understood and can be delivered. You'll also be responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering leading-edge projects across functions or internationally in your field of specialism.**Essential Skills/Experience**:- Proven experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change- Experience of working with complex integrated systems- Strong engagement, communication and stakeholder management skills- Experience of working in a regulated environment- Experience of virtual collaboration to lead, shape and develop innovative solutions- Experience of mentoring, coaching or developing others- Experience of working with and managing third party suppliers/vendors- Business acumen- Challenge, negotiation and influence- Presentation, Communication & Facilitation- Customer Focus- Stakeholder Management- Benefits Management and Realisation- Networking- Compliance- Planning- Business Process Management- Requirements Management- Exposure to User Centred Design (User Experience, User Interface Design and Business Process Design)**Desirable Skills/Experience**:- Degree in relevant discipline or formal certification in business analysis practice- Lean SIGMA training- Practical usage of Agile Methodology- Experience of working in a global organisation with complex/geographical context- Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge- Cross industry business awareness/business domain knowledge- User Centred Design (User Experience, User Interface Design and Business Process Design)When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.Why AstraZeneca?Expectation of working in the office 3 days a week statementWhen we put unexpected teams in the same room, we ignite ambitious thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working give us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn’t mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our outstanding and bold world.