SmartSupplies Specialist

At AstraZeneca we lead our industry in our development of a strong and varied pipeline. This means our people are here to win, we give you a breadth of opportunities to be curious and do cutting edge, unique work that has big impact on science and medicine.

The Global Clinical Supply Chain (GCSC) function within Clinical Manufacturing & Supply (CM&S) is accountable for the supply of medicines to AstraZeneca's clinical trials and toxicology studies. Clinical supply chains are amongst the most complex of any industry and our customers are increasingly demanding more speed and agility, without compromising quality or risk, so we need well-managed, fit-for-purpose systems to meet these challenges.

AZ SmartSupplies system is a global platform to support key supply chain activities including planning, manufacture, release, inventory management, labelling, traceability, shelf life management and reporting. The Supply Chain SmartSupplies Specialists will support CM&S staff to create, manage and maintain high quality system and project data. This will require a broad range of system and business process knowledge and skills. The role holder will mainly support system management activities across all AZ SmartSupplies applications and interfaces and based on business needs there are also element of inventory management in scope for the role.

Main Duties and Responsibilities
The SmartSupplies specialist will perform and support wider Clinical Manufacturing & Supply organization via a variety of responsibilities:
* Create, manage and maintain high quality system and project data
* Support and/or lead system change management and drive improvements including raising, implementing and closing change requests.
* Support Clinical Manufacture and Supply organization with problem solving e.g. resolution of system incidents/problems and provide overall support to CM&S staff.
* The SmartSupplies Specialist has a key role in improvement and validation work in connection to SmartSupplies system (and other GxP systems).
* Develop and implement new technological solutions to help CM&S to operate more efficient and with improved quality. This is essential for AstraZeneca success in the pharmaceutical business.
* Develop and provide training to GCSC and other relevant parties.
* The Specialist will also be involved in inventory management i.e. create, manage and maintain high quality project and system data according to Good Manufacturing Practise (GMP) standards.

Essential Requirements
* College/university degree in Science/Computer applications preferred
* Demonstrated good time and stakeholder management
* Experience of effective working in a multi-cultural team
* Experience of drug substance or drug product development is highly valuable
* A track record of working and managing change in GxP systems is meritorious


Skills and Capabilities
* Strong computing skills
* Excellent English, both verbally and written
* Demonstration of high attention to detail
* Good pedagogic skills to be able to train others
* Flexibility to react to different customer needs
* Proven analytical and strategic thinking


We would like to know more about you. If you are interested, apply now! Welcome with your application no later than February 26 2020. For more information about the position please contact Hiring Manager Lina Nyman, at lina.nyman(at)astrazeneca.com

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