Operations & IT Graduate Program Lead

4 months ago

Macclesfield, United Kingdom AstraZeneca Full time

**Operations & IT Graduate Program Lead**

**Location**:UK (Macclesfield), US (Gaithersburg), Mexico (Guadalajara), Sweden (Södertälje)

**Competitive salary and benefits**

Hybrid working 3 days a week in the office

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

As a hard-working team, we are united and motivated by our shared purpose - to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. We come to work each day to make a difference - to patients, society, and our company.

Here you will experience a fast-paced and agile environment as we continue to support the business on a journey of evolution and growth, driven by new, exciting technology and digital innovations. It’s challenging and sometimes demanding, and that’s why we love it.

The Operations & IT Strategy has Talent and Development at its heart, people are the key element to our success in driving our 2030 bold ambition and transforming patient outcomes. Our Early Career programmes, and the broader Early Careers population joining Operations & IT, continue to strengthen our capabilities and diverse talent pipeline, ensuring a fit for future skills based workforce.

You will ensure all our programs have clear success measures and metrics, and we are able to make data driven decisions as we look to improve and evolve our programs.

You will have direct management of our IT & Operations Rotational Global Graduate Program cohorts operating across multiple countries. You will work alongside business collaborators, steering group members and HR colleagues to ensure we are providing the best experience, exposure and education to our graduate program population.

You will develop strong internal and external networks and bring in external best practice, continuing to evolve the design of our programs to attract the best early in career talent and meet business needs.

There are many collaborators across early careers and you will collaborate and partner with others inside and outside of AZ. You will ensure that there is a strong focus on diversity and inclusion across all our early in career graduate activities.

It’s a really exciting time to work in Operations & IT as we see the early careers strategy come to life

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Ensure the Graduate Programs in Operations and IT are designed and leveraged in-line with the early careers strategy and Strategic Workforce Plan priority roles, skills and capabilities, and have clear success measures and metrics
- Central management of the IT & Operations Global Graduate Leadership Programs - oversee onboarding, development, rotations, international experiences and transitions off program into roles, evolving the program alongside business needs
- Chair the IT & Operations Graduate Program Steering Groups, partnering closely with the business to create a shared ownership of the graduate programs
- SME on Graduate Programs in Ops & IT advising the business on design and development of new programs where required
- Partner with key AZ stakeholders - Early Talent TAQ Team, other graduate program leads

**Skills and Experience**

**Essential**:

- Experience of managing early careers programs
- Proven work experience in a highly collaborative matrix environment, engaging with, and managing, multiple stakeholders and partnering to deliver shared results
- Ability to identify and drive improvements, using innovative thinking, internal and external insights and data
- A confident communicator with the ability to help shape and influence approaches
- The ability to understand and focus on inclusion and diversity
- Experience of operating across business functions and geographies in large, complex and sometimes uncertain environments

**Desirable**:

- Experience working in an Operations and/or IT environment

**Education**:

- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Business or other relevant discipline

**Why AstraZeneca?**

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and spark 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, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

**So, what’s next?**
- Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.
- Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant We have one seat available, and we hope it’s yours

**Where can I find out more?**

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