**Senior Project Manager**
**About the AstraZeneca**
AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases. But we're more than one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.
At AstraZeneca, we're proud to have a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration. Here, employees are empowered to express diverse perspectives - and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity.
**About the team**
R&D IT's vision is to deliver the best science IT capabilities in biopharma, which we define as agile, responsive and fit-for-future. Our goal is to engage with our stakeholders as a strategic partner in delivering life-changing medicines to our patients. The desired effect of your role is to take accountability as a leader for delivering a 'Best in Class' IT experience within R&D IT.
Delivering the portfolio of projects and services needs people with hybrid skill sets covering technical, analytical, project management, service management and business analysis skills, combined with an excellent knowledge of finance as well as product and portfolio strategy processes. Our project managers lead or contribute to a range of projects including IT development, data management, analytics, AI, machine learning, business transformation and more. Our projects deploy a range of technologies including internal custom built solutions, packaged software, ERP solutions, Software as a Service as well as Cloud based solutions and BI tools.
**About The role**
**The **Senior Project Manager **will be accountable for**:
- Leading technology and/or business transformation projects/programs to ensure that they align to the vision and business strategy, and that true business value is delivered to the customer as a result. Having a strong partnership with the business and IT customer driving the demand for the solution is critical to success in this role.
- Ensuring solutions solve key business needs in an integrated and simple manner, exploiting existing assets where feasible, and minimizing the long-term total cost of ownership. The role must also ensure that delivery occurs with a sense of urgency and speediness of response and can be completed within the approved program budget and schedule commitments, whilst continuously assessing risk and balancing the need for flexibility and agility with conformance to standard methods and tools.
- Focus areas include stakeholder management across Business, IT, and vendor partners, risk management and delivery of business benefit. This role is also required to collaborate with others in Program and Project Management, and drive development of the project / program management capability across IT in a tangible and measurable way.
**Requirements**:
**Essential**
- Technical, Science or Business degree or equivalent years of experience
- At least 10 years of Project Management experience, ideally in a Pharmaceutical IT environment
- Experience working in a global organization and across cultural boundaries
- Experience in Agile Project Management
- Demonstrated skills interacting with Senior Leaders
- Experience leading large projects / programs
- Experience working with third party suppliers
- Experience working in a highly regulated environment
- Excellent relationship management, and influencing skills
- An entrepreneurial mindset and the proven ability to shape innovative solutions
- Well-developed organizational, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
**Desirable**
- Program/Project Management certifications preferred (Prince, PMP, MSP, Agile - Scrum, SAFe)
- Experience with data management tools and techniques such as ETL and data virtualization.
**Why AstraZeneca?**
At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we're opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together.
Interested? Come and join our journey.
**So, what's next!**
Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can't wait to hear from you.
**Where can I find out more?**
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**AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer.**
**Strong English communication skills required.**
**Positions are open to Mexican Citizens and official residents of Mexico.**
**Location: Guadalajara **(hybrid - Expectation of working in the office 3 days a week)
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