Business Support Coordinator

Are you an admin professional that find motivation is supporting others? Would you love a flexible work where you get the opportunity to play a meaningful role for our Senior Leaders every day? Then, join us at AstraZeneca and Development Operations.

Development Operations brings together all the skills groups to drive critical operational activities for early and late stage medicines development. We are nearly 2,500 people operating in more than 45 countries across the globe - partnering with the early and late Therapeutic areas to meet the demands of extensive clinical trial programmes involving many thousands of patients.

We are now looking for a new Business Support Coordinator to join the team, reporting to the Business Support Manager. The position can be based at either of our sites in Gothenburg or Warsaw.

The role as Business Support Coordinator is a phenomenal opportunity to take on a challenging and varied role within our admin team. Your focus will be on providing high quality professional administration support to senior leaders within Development Operations. You will be working proactively together with the other co-ordinators in the function and possibly also more broadly within BioPharmaceuticals R&D. To be successful in the role you have experienced from working in a global complex environment and customer service is something you like in your every day job. .

Your accountabilities:

* Provide support to senior leaders, coordinating complex meetings and off-site events, diary arrangements and travel in line with AZ policy
* Work collaboratively with Global Colleagues to deliver a lean, consistent and professional global support service, including knowledge sharing and training within the Business Support team
* Be an expert in using technology to efficiently complete tasks and propose technology based solutions
* Control projects under general guidance ensuring delivery of project outputs according to plan, reviewing and refining plans as necessary

* Independently and pro-actively resolve issues and challenges, ensuring delivery of day-to-day support activities and programs
* Prepare documents, materials and official information releases and distribute to the required stakeholders
* Plan, organize, and schedule own workload, so that all activities are completed accurately and on time while using and developing best practices



Essential requirement for the role:

* Significant administrative or related experience
* Good communication and coordination skills
* Experience with a variety of virtual meeting technologies, information management software, and Microsoft products
* Ability to manage multiple projects/tasks/assignments simultaneously and effectively
* Demonstrated skills and ability in PC applications
* Strong customer service skills
* Independent follow-up on action items from meetings
* A high degree of personal credibility when interfacing with organizations internal and external to AZ
* Experience working in a fast-paced global environment

Desirable experience for the role:

* Experience of working in a pharma or healthcare environment
* Experience managing SharePoint sites including creating and managing permission groups, creating new sites, and adding design elements



So, what's next?

Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it's yours.

We welcome your application by June 30th at the latest.

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