Administrative Coordinator / Administrator - 12 month FTC

Location: Cambridge, UK

Competitive salary and benefits package

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About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

At AstraZeneca, every one of our employees makes a difference to patient lives every day. Each and every one of us believes that science has the ability to change lives and that to deliver this takes many people with many skill sets. When we deliver a life-changing medicine, that success comes from the combined efforts of all of our people. 

The role

We are currently looking to recruit an Administration Assistant to join our team in Precision Medicine and Biosamples (PMB), based at our Melbourn Science Park offices. The Precision Medicine and Biosamples function work across the Oncology and BioPharmaceutical portfolio, with accountability for the development and regulatory approval of diagnostic tests as well as management of all AstraZeneca samples globally.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

As a key member of the Administration Team, you’ll be using your excellent organisational skills to enable our talented scientists and diagnostic experts to focus on science to deliver medicines to patients. 

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a varied role within a team of 6, reporting into the PMB Administration Team Lead. Your focus will be on supporting PMBs onboarding & training lead as well as providing high quality and professional administration support across the department. You’ll become an expert user in key business systems and tools, and provide a professional point of contact for our colleagues.  

Activities include:

Working alongside the PMB onboarding and training lead to:

• Create tailored onboarding profiles in our custom onboarding portal (MS Teams)
• Complete onboarding tasks in a timely manner
• Welcome new hires and deliver portal training
• Stay connected with new hires throughout their onboarding journey
• Co-host the new starters bi-weekly networking meeting
• Maintenance of onboarding information
• Support the continual development of the onboarding portal
• Support monthly PMB SABA meetings inc. agenda call, minutes and action tracking
• Assist with the development of department learning plans in SABA
• Ad-hoc training requests e.g. adding SOPS/ trainings to PMB SABA profiles
• Triage of the central PMB admin mailbox
• Coordinating internal and external meetings
• Arranging complex business travel and expense reporting for senior members of the PMB team
• Supporting PMB-wide projects and events such as Town Halls

Essential requirements

• a proven successful track record operating as an Administrator
• A professional and proactive approach, with the ability to manage a diverse workload
• Good organisational, forward-planning skills, with attention to detail
• Ability to work as part of a team and flexibly to adapt to changing situations
• Be collaborative and effectively build networks
• Good customer service skills
• Effective verbal and written communication
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, specifically MS teams and Outlook

Desirable requirements

• Influencing skills with ability to engage with people
• Champion of efficient and effective processes  

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.

Where can I find out more?

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Additional information

Our Company Values & Behaviours underpin everything we do so please take a moment to familiarize yourself with them. You may also want to check out our new R&D Video showing how we turn Science into Medicines.

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer. AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law. 

Job open date: 12/08/2021

Job closing date: 19/08/2021

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.