Business Analyst

Business Analyst - Gothenburg



About the role

AstraZeneca is investing heavily in our Augmented Drug Design-Make-Test and Analyse platforms as we seek to deliver better, differentiated Candidate Drugs into trials, faster, for greater patient benefit. We have made great strides in creating the data analytics, AI, and ML services that will pave the way for this transformation. The next part of this journey will involve leveraging the current services to build new applications that will enable our scientists to design new and safer drugs faster.



We are now looking for a Business Analyst to join the team. The role will partner with the Business Relationship Manager or Business Analyst colleagues to support the development of business cases, assist in business process design and ensure that proposed solutions meet established AstraZeneca quality and compliance standards and business solution needs. Your work will have a direct impact on the science we do, and you have an opportunity to enable our scientists to undertake science not possible today.



Accountabilities

* Business Needs Identification - Operate at a functional level in assessing and defining business needs and areas for improvement. Proactively seek out opportunities to enhance and improve in line with strategic goals.
* Business Analysis Planning - Select the appropriate analysis approach to a piece of work depending on its complexity, level of risk, known assumptions, constraints and dependencies.
* Partner Analysis & Change - Identify collaborators, build and manage relationships according to individual stakeholder needs and levels of influence. Contribute to communication plans.
* Requirements Analysis and Design Definition - Responsible for requirements management plans including elicitation, approvals, processes, RAID and scope impacts.
* Business Case and Benefits Management - Support the business case definition, collect business justification for investment including return on investment and benefits realisation.
* Solution Evaluation - Analyzes and assesses solution proposals and able to articulate supporting reasoning. i.e. assessing business readiness, improving value vs. spend.
* Test Lead to define the testing approach and the components of testing to ensure traceability of requirements and efficiency of overall solution.
* Change/Communication Lead to ensure that plans and delivery support the Partner Analysis.



Requirements

To succeed, you have experience working in a regulated environment, performing business analysis and design, either alone delivering small scale business change activities; or as a contributor to a large scale or global business change. You are a communicator with strong engagement, facilitation and presentation skills, with an ability to influence others. It is important that you operate with interactive communication, demonstrating inclusion and cultural sensitivity.



We also see that you have:

* Practical usage of Agile Methodology (Scrum/Kanban)
* Jira / Confluence or similar tools
* Experience of working with third party suppliers/vendors
* Focus on customer care
* Ability to work with multiple collaborators
* Experience with planning, compliance, Business Process & Requirements Management



Pharmaceutical business domain knowledge is desireable, however not essential.



About AstraZeneca

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?

Are you up for an exciting challenge and ready for making a difference? If so, hit Apply by the 1st of September - we can't wait to hear from you!



Open date: 4/8/2022

Close date: 1/9/2022