Patient Safety Program Manager - Gothenburg/Gaithersburg

R&D-IT - Patient Safety Program Manager - Gothenburg/Gaithersburg



About the R&D IT team

Our R&D IT vision is to deliver the best science IT capabilities in biopharma, which we define as agile, responsive and fit-for-future. Our goal is to engage with our stakeholders as a strategic partner in delivering life-changing medicines to our patients. The desired effect of your role is to take accountability as a leader for delivering a 'Best in Class' IT experience within the early and late science units.

This is what you'll do

As the Patient Safety Program Manager, you will lead business and transformation projects/programs, ensure that they align to the vision and business strategy, and that true business value is delivered to the customer as a result. Having a strong partnership with the business customer driving the demand for the solution is critical to achieve success. As such, you will not only meet demand, but also challenge and renegotiate demand as needed based on strategic technical drivers and corporate ambitions. The Program Manager is genuinely dedicated to deliver, with a strong customer experience focus. You will use process as guidance for achieving delivery, and constantly look for innovative means to deliver quicker and more seamlessly within the process guideposts. You will be accountable for ensuring solutions solve key business needs in a coordinated and simple manner, exploiting existing assets where feasible, and minimizing the long term total cost of ownership. The role will ensure that delivery occurs by prioritizing and keeping speediness of response, and can be completed within the approved program budget and schedule commitments, whilst continuously assessing risk and balancing the need for flexibility and agility with conformance to standard methods and tools. In this role your focus areas will include stakeholder management across Business, IT, and vendor partners, risk management and delivery of business benefit. This role will also collaborate with others in Program and Project Management, and drive development of the project / program management capability across IT in a tangible and measurable way.

What you'll need

You are experienced and skilled in delivering, running and controlling large projects /programs, within a multinational and matrixed organization. You are an excellent communicator with good facilitation skills, and enjoy collaborating with others to achieve goals. You are comfortable working across cultural boundaries and interacting with Senior Leadership Teams, as well as negotiating across complex groups.

You will also need:

* Technical, Science or Business degree, alternatively equivalent years of experience
* Project Management experience, ideally in a Pharmaceutical IT environment
* Experience of working with onshore and offshore suppliers, and also internal delivery teams
* Understanding of quality and compliance
* Experience shaping innovative solutions
* The ability to travel both domestically and internationally
* High levels of drive, energy, resilience
* Confident in taking ownership and enterprise leadership to deliver high quality solutions that resolve business problems



Why join us

Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth. Focused and committed, and backed with the investment to succeed, we're driving cross-company change to disrupt the entire industry.



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 to make a difference? If so, hit Apply today - we can't wait to hear from you!



Open Date: 12/ 07/ 2022
Close Date: 26 / 07/ 2022