Regulatory & QA Business Partnering Lead

2 weeks ago


Macclesfield, United Kingdom AstraZeneca Full time

**About Astrazeneca**:
AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven BioPharmaceutical business 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.

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.

**About our IT team**:
Here our work has a direct impact on patients - transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working, combining innovative science with leading digital technology platforms and data. All with a passion to impact lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning and more. Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth.

The Regulatory & Quality Assurance (QA) Business Partnering Lead will use their extensive experience, pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical industry intelligence and an in-depth understanding of business processes and priorities to build and deliver an integrated roadmap to digitally transform Regulatory & QA business areas. The role will develop strategic relationships at the highest le els, identifying ways for IT to partner with all parts of the Regulatory & QA business areas, and drive outcomes which exceed business objectives. This role and team will lead the identification of business problems, lead the development of business cases, ensure delivery excellence, and exploit investments to create maximum value. The key focus will be on driving the highest impact business outcomes and exploitation of global platforms, capabilities, and
architecture. The Regulatory & QA Business Partnering Lead will be primarily accountable for all R&D IT performance for these business areas.

This role works closely with R&D IT Global Capabilities partners to orchestrate and plan effective deployment of global solutions into regions and sites, including local requirements, dependencies, etc.

**Function / Team / Location**
- The Regulatory & QA Business Partnering Lead will be a member of the Development & Late Therapeutic Area (TA) Leadership Team, covering all R&D teams, business processes and systems across Development business areas.
- This role will be part of the relevant functional R&D LTs, as IT business partner
- 8+ direct reports, but will also manage others through an extensive matrix management structure.
- The key partners for this role is the Head of Regulatory and Head of R&D
- The role will work closely with Global IT Functions, Capabilities, Architecture, Analytics and Support teams.

**Typical Accountabilities
- Build strong strategic relationships with large and complex business groups, with a deep understanding of business strategy, future direction, changes and needs.
- Develop and maintain IT/digital roadmap for Regulatory & QA functions, incorporating and consolidating all major IT projects/programmes - strategic and tactical.
- Working with Regulatory & QA leaders as well as R&D IT and AZIT partners to coordinate optimum deployment roadmaps, avoiding duplication and delays
- Develop strategic plans, feasibility studies, cases, forecasting & demand planning, and supervise performance metrics for monitor service and delivery.
- Proactively see opportunities to deliver transformational innovative digital solutions to resolve business issues/challenges and adding new value provide business value.
- Champion change management across partner groups to ensure successful governance, communication, and general awareness.
- Drive continuous improvement, simplification, and standardisation initiatives to exploit the maximum benefit from digital investments.
- Monitor, advocate, and drive global IT services required to provide the performance and stability needed to support the site and improve pulse scores.
- Contribute the broad leadership priorities of the region and R&D IT to deliver goals and objectives.

Lead team to drive a collaborative, inclusive, Great Place to Work environment for all IT colleagues.
- Accountable for delivery of Regulatory & QA IT portfolio (via own team or matrix delivery within Platforms or Service)

**Essential skills required**
- Extensive experience of Regulatory & QA business

domains

Rich experience of bio-pharma industry
- Experience of identification and implementation of innovative technology solutions
- Evidence of leading and developing innovative solutions
- Experience of defini


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