Axial Project Support Analyst

Axial Project Support Analyst

Location: Lisbon

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our offices are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.

AstraZeneca believes in a culture of lifelong learning. To support your professional growth, we offer wide-ranging opportunities for learning and development.

About Axial:

We are one purpose-led global organisation. The enablers and innovators, ensuring that we can fulfil our mission to push the boundaries of science and discover and develop life-changing medicines. We take pride in working close to the cause, opening the locks to save lives, ultimately making a massive difference to the outside world.

AstraZeneca (AZ) is in a period of strong growth and our employees have a united purpose to make a difference to patients around the world who need both our medicines and the ongoing developments from our science. In this journey AZ must continue to work across borders and with partners and new colleagues in a fast and seamless way. The ambition, size and complexity of the organisation, coupled with the opportunities afforded by new technology, has led the Board to approve a large-scale transformation programme – Axial.

The Axial Programme will be powered by S/4HANA a new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system which will be implemented right across the organisation and will provide our business with standardised processes, enhanced financial management, common data and real time reporting, transforming the way we work through our entire supply chain - from bench to patient.

The new system will be used by more than 20,000 employees daily, is foundational to all AZ entities and is central to most core business processes. This is a once in a generation programme for AstraZeneca and will shape our ways of working globally for many years to come.

The Axial programme needs the best talent to work in it. Whether it’s the technical skills, business understanding or change leadership, we want to ensure we have the strongest team deployed throughout. We are aiming to deliver a world class change programme that leaves all employees with a fuller understanding of their role in the end-to-end nature of our global company. This programme will provide AZ with a competitive edge, to the benefit of our employees, customers and patients.

About the role:

The Axial Project Support Analyst sits in a central Global team led by the Operational Excellence Lead and provides underpinning support to assist with the delivery of critical initiatives needed to ensure the success of the Programme.

Day to day you will be working with Project Managers, Technology Leads and Management teams to maintain excellent programme governance, data quality and ensure timely delivery of programme artefacts e.g. reporting, RAIDs log management, action trackers etc

You will collaborate across the programme teams to drive programme efficiencies and set working standards. Deliver, through a data driven mind set, offering unhindered working solutions whilst driving operational effectiveness.

Typical accountabilities

• Analysing project data and producing insights to optimize performance.

• Identifying problems and shortfalls and proposing solutions

• Providing operational support, collaborating closely with key partners, tracking timelines, etc

• Management of RAID Logs

• Preparing, reviewing, and maintaining technical project documentation and reports

• Identify and drive process improvements.

• Management of Status Plans

• Facilitation of meetings/workshops

• Communication Plans and engagement methodologies are in place and effectively used.

• Work as part of cohesive Project Support team across a multidisciplinary team including vendors, offshore, inhouse delivery teams in the UK, US, India and Mexico

• Support continued development of world class programme support office capability and ensure that standard methodology is reinforced.

This is a fast-paced demanding environment that requires the Project Analyst to have a collaborative, approach and know how develop and work with suc