Associate Director, Master Data Business Analyst

Hybrid model of work: 3 days in office, 2 remote per week

Localtion: Warsaw (Poland) or Barcelona (Spain)

Be empowered to be innovative and creative where difference is valued

Would you like to be a part of a R&D Master Data implementation, making direct strategic impact on drug development, playing a key role in getting medicines to patients?  

At AstraZeneca, we are constantly pushing the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients, with a real passion for discovery and a pipeline to show for it. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives every single day. 

The R&D Master Data team collaborates across the whole AstraZeneca to drive innovation through improving the quality of our data products by institutionalizing Master Data centricity across organization.

We are building the Centre of MD Excellence whose primary role is to deliver on the MDM roadmap, implementing centralized master data management across new MD domains. This is where the role of MDM Business Analyst is needed: you will be working with various cohorts of SMEs, reviewing and improving their data, assessing and re-engineering their processes so as to build the most complete and accurate master data sources managed and governed by the effective processes.

Our mission is to support R&D users with highest quality of  Master Data within the rigor of the appropriate compliance framework.

Typical Accountabilities

Master Data Mgmt

Implementation of the data-centric MDM eco-system as per the agreed roadmap. For this:

• Define and prioritise business requirements relating to  Master Data capabilities using BA best-practice techniques. Provide related expertise to support internal partners with shaping their projects. Skill: Business requirements elicitation and analysis
• Ensure the vertical traceability of requirements from top-level objectives down to executable iterations for new data content, new or enhanced processes, or new solution features. Provide strategic support to the leadership: formulating, aligning and implementing an MDM vision, roadmap. Skill: Business requirements mapping and analysis
• Model business process of as-is and to-be states that enable efficient, scalable and sustainable master data governance routines to be developed and embedded in AZ R&D. Own, support, lead the development and instigate continuous improvement of Master Data Management processes. Skill: process mapping and process analysis
• Apply business acumen, collaboration skills along with the subject matter expertise to effectively broker resolutions of ambitious priorities across critical data domains/critical data elements. Facilitate/be directly involved in data migration activities.
• Ensure effective collaboration with SMEs and Information Architects to support the development of conceptual models, business glossaries and ontologies.
• Collaborate with business partners and influence discussions to contribute to the design and implementation of data standards and quality management framework as well as the relevant metrics.
• Facilitate Data acquisition, validation, standardization, enrichment, entity resolution

Essential

Please note:

• this is NOT either a finance role or an IT role, we are not looking for SQL/Python/R programmers, platform engineers, application and technology architects, data scientists, finance specialists.
• this role is NOT assuming direct line management or reports.

Please review carefully essential skills and experience below.

• You have worked in pharmaceutical industry/biochemistry/life sciences for several years and obtained profound experience in dealing with specifics of this field.
• You possess an in-depth understanding of one or more disciplines, ideally residing in the areas like e.g.,
  • Regulatory, IDMP, Authorised Product
  • MDM Governance, Stewardship
  • Investigational Product
  • Drug Discovery and Development
  • Drug Manufacturing
  • PQ CMC
  • CRO management etc
• You are a Subject Matter Expert, having gained your expertise through your on-the-job experience within pharma/biochemistry MD domains, such as
  • Pharmaceutical Product
  • Medicinal Product
  • Substances
  • Ingredients
  • Study
  • Sites/Investigators etc

… and/or through your academic background e.g.,

• Chemistry
• Biochemistry
• Biotechnology etc

• You have an analytical mind, enjoy working on complex process/data/design problems and as part of your current or one of your past jobs,
  • you reviewed processes and data flows, trying to pinpoint shortcomings and inefficiencies, had interactions with stakeholders at different levels/brokered alignment between parties on disparate priorities/drove collaboration with business partners to implement relevant improvements OR
  • you performed data analysis to tackle data quality issues, worked on data profiling and cleansing, designed and implemented data governance around data domains of your responsibility OR
  • you were involved in a project (like a large system implementation) as part of a Business team and drove identification and documentation of user requirements, gap analysis, designing the To-Be etc OR
  • you worked for a system integrator/consulting company supporting MDM (master data management) projects of various clients, being involved from the business/data side of these projects OR
  • you have a master data stewardship background in biopharma industry, having delivered multiple types of data stewardship services on a BAU basis as well as having a solid track record in process/DQ improvements.

Desirable

• Master degree in Business Administration, Information/Data Science, Informatics, computer science, economics or related field.
• BA qualification from either the IIBA or BCS
• TOGAF certification.
• DAMA certification.
• Data Governance and Data Management education and certifications
• Solid understanding of one of the industry best available MDM solutions – Reltio (ideal),  Informatica, SAP, Oracle etc.

Why we love it

If your passion is science and you want to be part of a team that makes a bigger impact on patients’ lives, then there’s no better place to be. Here we truly understand science and apply it every day to strengthen and grow our pipeline.

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.

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