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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.

Main responsabilities:

• Manage 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 identify 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.

Essential skills:

• Experience within Pharmaceutical or Healthcare Industry
• Sales Experience
• Local and/or Global Brand Marketing Experience
• Digital Marketing Experience
• Financial performance accountability
• Project management understanding and practice
• Supplier Management Experience
• Fluent English and Spanish

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.

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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.