Join at an exciting time of growth through innovation for AstraZeneca! Craft our journey by reimagining the way we work. Here, we pride ourselves on being innovative and taking intelligent risks at every turn.

We do this to steer the enterprise – powering every function to run faster, more efficiently, and achieve more.

A place where no two days are the same, it requires a combination of pure resilience, a can-do demeanour and intellectual challenge. We are considered, but when we move, we move quickly and decisively. Never afraid to be hands-on in our sophisticated, digitally evolving environment.

As the Associate Director- Digital HR Transformation, you will work with Digital, Data and our People Experience teams on various Global Digital HR transformation programs. The purpose of this team is to focus on enabling simplified and compelling workforce experiences for Employees and Managers, based on real-time insights and data. You will lead and deploy global HR technology programs and platforms for enabling Future of Work agenda. Additionally, you will have in-depth experience in building robust business cases based on the current challenges of AstraZeneca’s HR digital and experience landscape, underpinned by data from multiple sources, such as; surveys, benchmark and extensive internal and external research to influence the case for change.

You'll have an innate talent for influencing our internal Global Process Owners to understand and map out how current and sophisticated digital technologies (Analytics, RPA, AI, hyper automation) can enhance critical HR processes and be able personalised, scalable, intelligent and trusted capabilities to deliver higher business value and experiences. Expertise and past exposure in building data and analytics transformation business cases is desirable.

Here you will collaborate with our Digital Council, HR global process owner network and our colleagues in the HR IT and Finance functions.

Key accountabilities

• Design and deliver the Digital HR Transformation Program: The role will be accountable to design, lead and deliver HR Transformation programs; end to end for a given process, HR domain or HR pain point. Serve as a strong consultative partner for Global Process Owners and design the digital transformation solution in consultation with key stakeholders, IT and other teams with focus on employee experience at the centre of the solutions:

• Design a futuristic digital solution and operating model for the given process using various different existing or new technologies (Workday, Service Now etc)

• Set POC and evaluate the available digital solution within current systems

• Drive the community of practice through various design stages to keep them engaged into the solutioning and feedback

• Build the Business Case for Transformation: Work with Global Process Owners, IT, Product owners and Finance to build robust business case for acquiring resources and funding to deliver these transformation programmes by:

• Own the development of cross-functional process team working on HR pain points

• Facilitate discovery sessions and workshops to gather structured inputs to build the robust multi year business case based on future solution design and approach.

• Gather and Analyse data and insights to build the business case, identify the current baseline, the benchmark opportunity for efficiency and impact and create golden KPI to measure the same

• Drive HR Operations Simplification and Automation of Data, Reporting and Analytics

• Facilitate the Data, Reporting and Analytics transformation projects to help us productize more and more reports for HR Community and our Managers.

• Lead the HR Operations Simplification efforts by driving key projects in partnership with People Services and COEs

• Lead and drive complex global projects on Data, Reporting and Analytics to design the advanced analytics products needed by various business users

Skills & experience

The successful candidate will be an independent self-starter who is passionate about driving digital transformation through data and insights;

• Experience in leading digital HR Transformation projects .Experience of mapping current capabilities, designing future roadmap and strategy to get there

• Experience in building business case for transformation programs and pitching it to leadership team for prioritisation and resourcing

• Experience of designing and evaluating futuristic digital solutions by combination of technology, design thinking and lean methods

• Familiar with various HR technology and ecosystem of products- Workday, Service Now, Data Lake, Degreed, Learning ecosystem etc

• Experience related to the implementation and management of enterprise digital HR applications/platforms

• Experience in building complex macros and programs in xls, a bit of advanced xl user and pro.

• Excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to build effective relationships and working collaboratively with our global process owners and business stakeholders

• Experience of managing multiple projects/programmes in a large global organisation

• Project planning, management, risk monitoring and mitigation

• Ability to understand business priorities and align technology opportunities

• Ability to prioritise workload and provide timely follow-up and resolution

• Ability to empower and set the direction for a (not direct report) team

• Experience of working in a sophisticated, global matrix organisation

Nice to have:

• Master’s Degree or equivalent experience in Analytics, Data science, Finance, Information sciences

• Experience of Microstrategy, Power BI

• Strong knowledge of Digital HR Ecosystem and products like Workday, Service Now etc

• Knowledge of Agile methodology of experience working in an Agile way

• Knowledge of lean methodologies

• Knowledge of design thinking methods and tools

Be a trusted partner in a fast growing organisation, and make an even bigger impact on our patients worldwide.

Join us today!

Competitive salary package and benefits.

Open Date: May 27, 2021

Close Date: June 10, 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.