At AstraZeneca we believe in the potential of our people and you’ll develop beyond what you thought possible. We make the most of your skills and passion by actively supporting you to see what you can achieve. Integrated and closely aligned with the whole enterprise, we offer our expertise, and leverage exciting new technology and digital innovations, to accelerate AstraZeneca’s evolution. We do all of it strategically, looking ahead to the new challenges we’ll face and improving the way the enterprise operates today.

The GCO Regional Production Associate is a member of the Global Commercial Operations (GCO)’s Global Production Team and reports to the GCO Regional Production Manager (RPM). Working directly with regional/ local brand teams, the RPA will be accountable for delivery of GCO production services/ projects. Serving as the point of contact for brand teams and creative agencies, this individual must have the ability to partner effectively with key stakeholders and understand business and customer experience goals. The RPA will work closely with preferred suppliers and internal cross-functional areas to ensure successful and timely delivery of projects.

Major Responsibilities/ Requirements

• Lead the portfolio of projects for the assigned geographies, ensuring the quality and timelines of the Production Supplier are maintained with the markets and maintain an open dialogue on the feedback of the services.

• Demonstrate strong communication, project management and critical thinking skills along with high cultural awareness to effectively deliver successful global production supported by a globally based multi-cultural team.

• Accountable for identifying and understanding regional and local market content trends to enable GCO to provide feedback to TA brands teams via the Content Centre team that ensure global content meets the needs of the marketing companies.

• Works with their respective markets to ensure all necessary communications and change management activities are delivered to the region and/or local marketing company for new content solutions.

• Identifies potential new production capabilities to support operational/value expansion and proactively shares them with GCO colleagues and leadership.

• Leverage reporting and utilization metrics to communicate overall adoption of GCO production.  Where there are gaps, work with GCO Leadership and Global Production Leadership to see opportunities for improvement to increase efficiency.

• Possesses strong business acumen and understanding of global business services and corresponding business requirements.  Must be able to assess complex process and system interdependencies and devise appropriate change management approaches in order to realize and sustain benefits of new production capabilities.

• GCO services are delivered through multiple outsourced partners in conjunction with AZ dedicated resources. This role demands an understanding of supplier infrastructure to ensure continuous value optimisation for AstraZeneca. It also requires a continuous review of demand and capabilities that our partners need to provide to make sure they are aligned to the market’s needs.

• Demonstrates comprehensive understanding and application of all relevant policies, procedures and operational frameworks. Ensures GCO direct and indirect reports comply with all appropriate AZ Code of Conduct policies and procedures.

Your essential qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Previous experience in Pharmaceutical or Healthcare Industry

• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, facilitation and negotiating skills

• Oral and written fluency in Business English & Italian

• Proven track record working cross functionally with high level of commitment and follow through

• Project management understanding and practice

• Supplier Management Experience

• Ability to build trusted relationships with key stakeholders

• Proactive attitude, drive innovation and continuous improvement

• Digital marketing knowledge

• Ability to work independently

• Ability to set priorities and meet deadlines

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel)

Your ideal qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Previous Sales Experience

• Previous Local and/or Global Brand Marketing Experience

• Digital Marketing Experience

• Financial performance accountability

Date Posted

Closing Date

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.