Analytics and Insights Manager
AstraZeneca

Analytics and Insights Manager

Location: Wilmington, DE or Gaithersburg, MD

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact on people's lives with life-changing medicines? Join our team at AstraZeneca, where everyone feels a personal connection to the people we impact. From our science labs to manufacturing at scale, we are committed to delivering at the highest quality. It's inspiring and rewarding work, influencing every part of the product lifecycle to deliver life-changing medicines. To ultimately make people's lives better - from patients and their families to all of us in society!

Accountabilities:

As an Analytics & Insights Manager, you will be accountable for the delivery and development of reliable business intelligence and data analysis services which enable data-driven decision making throughout the External Supply and Manufacturing (ESM) organization. You'll be responsible for managing and overseeing the data management and reporting architecture in partnership with IT and ESM functions. Your role will also involve supporting business insight through the manipulation and analysis of data using statistical, machine learning and / or AI methodologies.

What you'll do:

• Develop the Analytics & Insights plan by defining common objectives and strategies across the organisation to ensure data is used effectively and efficiently in support of ESM strategy and goals.
• Analyse, evaluate and report performance across ESM and provide analytical support within the Organization
• Manage a set of important metrics for ESM and developing a roadmap with business partners to enhance them
• Provide data analysis and scenario modelling for strategic/business decision making
• Represent ESM on data management and review forums and partner with IT and the Global Business Process Management team for cross team and systems related topics.
• Design and implement data engineering methods and processes to collect data from inside and outside of ESM by creating data models, policies, and standards that define and govern the type of data collected, how it is used, stored, managed, and integrated within ESM reporting and analysis activities.
• Support important metric improvement through exploring Root Causes of variances, working with ESM data owners to understand variances and explore opportunities to improve them.
• Contribute to the development of tools, standard process, playbooks, documentation and knowledge sharing in analytics and insights.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (e.g. Statistics, Economics, Math, Finance, or related) or 8 years of equivalent experience in analytics
• 6 or more year's experience in Analytics, Procurement, Supply Chain and/or Finance
• Strong MS Office, Business Intelligence experience and database knowledge
• Proficient experience in Data Engineering / Architecture experience with some technical leadership
• Experience with Supply Chain and Procurement systems i.e. SAP ERP, Ariba
• Experience of Data Science Modelling, Visualization, Data Manipulation and reporting
• Ability to collect, organize, assess, analyze, integrate and visualize data and qualitative information from a variety of sources to assess business problems, build cases, track and monitor performance"

Desired Skills/Experience:

• Master's degree or Post-graduate degree in advanced analytics/computing, math, science
• Experience with analytical software and dashboarding tools e.g. SAP Analytics in the Cloud, Qlik etc.
• Good understanding of E2E supply chain principles including metrics.
• Hands on experience working in a supply chain function

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, we are all about getting more medicines to patients quickly, affordably and sustainably. A key lever to making this a reality is technology. We are delivering internally and externally and transforming our ways of working. It means creating smart factories that help us to run better as well as make AstraZeneca a better place to work. Be part of impacting all parts of the business as we look for efficiencies, from robotic process automation in our factories to machine learning for quality batches.

This is a place to embrace change, where we are willing to trial new solutions always with the patient and business in mind. Here data is used to improve our processes and deliver better for people in need. A diverse, multigenerational workforce, we are united by our curiosity, we share learnings and scale fast.

Play an integral part in realizing our purpose: delivering life-changing medicines. It's by being digitally-enabled that we can make a bigger impact and contribution to society, the planet and our business. Feel the backing and investment of our leaders as we accelerate our Digital journey forward.

Are you ready to join us in this exciting journey? Apply now and let's make a difference together!

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.

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