Graduate Programme Partner

Cambridge

Competitive Salary and Benefits

Make a more meaningful impact to patients’ lives around the globe

With our ground-breaking pipeline, the outlook is bright. Be proud to be part of a place that has achieved so much, yet is still moving forward. There’s no better time to join our global, growing enterprise as we lead the way for healthcare and society.

Who we are

We are free – free from fear of failure, free to ask the right questions, make bold decisions, and dig deep into the biology of complex disease. And we take inspiration from within our BioPharmaceutical heritage, as well as beyond, exploring what we can take and apply.

The recently formed Early Careers team (based in R&D) has responsibility for a number of early talent programmes including Apprenticeships, Graduates, PhD studentships and Post-Doctoral Researchers. These industry-leading programmes provide fantastic opportunities for individuals to gain ‘hands-on’ experience of working in the biopharmaceutical industry on innovative science to deliver medicines to patients.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and confident individual to join our Early Careers team reporting to the Associate Director, Graduate Programmes R&D as the Graduate Programme Partner.

You will help to drive our two-year R&D graduate programmes in the US (Boston & Gaithersburg), UK (Cambridge), and Sweden (Gothenburg). Supporting each stage of our programmes (i.e. attraction, onboarding, induction, placement management, etc.) as well as promoting the programmes internally and externally. You will focus on the development of our early career scientists once they join us, supporting their communities and their personal learning and development during the two years that they are with us.

There are many partners across the programmes and you will establish relationships, collaborate and partner with these both inside and outside of AstraZeneca, including our early talent community, placement supervisors, the Talent Acquisition Team, other programme partners and university careers teams. You will also get the opportunity to work with our other Early Career programme partners and leaders on initiatives that span the breadth of R&D Early Careers.

You will get the opportunity to represent the R&D graduate programme at internal and external events as well as providing support and advice to placement supervisors and our graduates.

You will support the Programme Lead in gathering data to demonstrate the value the programmes deliver to R&D, as well as leading the communications strategy to share knowledge, maintain visibility with partners and to support the external visibility of the programme as part of the attraction strategy.

There will also be opportunities to support other Early Careers activities, including PhD studentships and university undergraduate ‘brand ambassadors’

It’s a really exciting time to work with the R&D Early Careers team.

What you will do

• Work with the Talent & Acquisition team to plan attraction strategies, run recruitment events and lead the assessment centre process to deliver success.

• Lead the onboarding and induction programme and work with the Associate director to identify R&D specific learning requirements for our Early Talent – look to expand this to all those in early careers where possible

• Coordinate the development programme and organise development events with internal and external partners.

• Lead the graduate rotations process, advertising opportunities, collaborating closely with Supervisors and the Early Talent Community across R&D.

• Secure and train mentors and buddies for the programme

• Act as a point of contact for supervisors, mentors, buddies and the early talent

• Define communications strategy and provide regular communications on the programmes to raise visibility of programmes/opportunities across R&D

• Maintain and develop the share-point information hub, workplace pages and develop nucleus webpages to support communications strategy.

• Set metrics and gather data to track progress across R&D Early Talent activities – developing clear and easy to use dashboards and reports

• Lead the 20-week student placement process. Advertise opportunities, secure placements, lead onboarding and offboarding and act as key contact for Imperial employees, AZ Supervisors and the students.

Essential Criteria

• To excel in this role, you will need to be a proactive, can-do person, with a flexible attitude, and a passion for working with and developing people.

• Experience in a highly collaborative environment, with a focus towards delivering positive business results

• Excellent organisational, and communication skills

• Experience in engaging with, and handling, multiple partners at all levels

• Ability to lead multiple projects/tasks/assignments simultaneously and optimally

• An excellent communicator (both written and verbal skills) with the ability to represent the business area and early career community both Internally and externally

• Comfortable with a variety of tools and platforms e.g Teams, Zoom, Workplace, Degreed, SharePoint

• Confident with data and supporting the development and reporting of metrics

• Ability to identify and drive improvements using innovative thinking

• Ability to work independently

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of operating across business functions and geographies in large, sophisticated and sometimes uncertain environments

• Experience working in a global business area

• Knowledge of or prior experience working in the Early Talent environment

• Experience working within a Research and Development/Science environment

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’s next?

Complete your application before the below closing date.

This role is open from 18th August 21 and welcome with your application no later than 2nd September 21

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Date Posted

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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.