Lead Consultant - Business Performance Manager

Job Title: Lead Consultant - Business Performance Manager

Csreer Level: E

Introduction to role

Are you ready to drive transformation through data-driven insights? As a Lead Consultant - Business Performance Manager, you'll be at the heart of IGNITE's mission to accelerate the impact of technology, data, and AI. Join our Business Operations and Transformation Team to enhance efficiency and effectiveness by developing strategies that optimize processes and ensure IGNITE achieves its strategic goals. You'll collaborate with senior leaders to create data visualizations that enable swift decision-making and establish performance measures that maintain operational health and productivity. With a customer-centric mindset, you'll thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment, approaching opportunities with scalable solutions. Are you prepared to take initiative and identify continuous improvement opportunities?

Accountabilities

• Business Performance: Support assessment of all aspects of business performance in the functional area: create and design appropriate measures, evaluate metrics and outputs and report on business performance and trends so that IGNITE understands business performance against key indicators, risks, and actions to mitigate risks.
• Ensuring progress over perfection: Confident in leveraging available data & insights (oftentimes incomplete) to make recommendations to stakeholders that drive progress.
• Identify scalability: Drive best practice across IGNITE by understanding requirements and trends in information requests in order to develop scalable solutions (rather than one-off responses).
• Financial Management & Reporting Processes: Collaborate with the IGNITE finance business partner to enable the efficient execution of quarterly financial reporting cycles, including increased transparency through reporting.
• Cloud Funding Model Management: Oversee the operations of a cloud funding model, specifically its demand management, cost allocation, and recharge processes, ensuring accuracy of recharges and demand in alignment with business objectives.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with key stakeholders such as project managers and budget owners to understand demand needs, provide insights, and maintain accurate reporting.
• Operational Efficiency: Collaborate in the optimization and improvements of business operational processes to ensure efficient and effective operations within IGNITE.
• Enabling Transformation: Collaborate with the head of Business Operations and Transformation and the wider team on transformational initiatives that improve the business operations of IGNITE.
• Continuous Improvement: Through data and process analysis, identify potential areas for improvement in IGNITE’s business operations.

Essential Skills/Experience

• A degree or equivalent qualification or relevant professional experience.
• Background and experience in business operations.
• Background and experience in Business Performance.
• Ability to analyze data and provide actionable insights in business language.
• Background and experience in maintaining financial operations.
• Working knowledge of BI and Portfolio Tools (e.g., PowerBI, Snowflake).
• Working knowledge of Analysis tools (e.g., SQL).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Experience of collaborating and engaging with stakeholders.
• Ability to demonstrate strong networking and team working skills.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Proven experience in life sciences, healthcare, or other related field.
• Knowledge of technology, data, and AI.
• Knowledge of data analysis and process improvement.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, your work directly impacts patients by transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak by combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms. Join us at a crucial stage of our journey as we become a digital and data-led enterprise. With a focus on innovation, ownership, and collaboration, you'll be part of a team that drives cross-company change to disrupt the industry. Our dynamic environment offers countless opportunities for growth, learning, and making a difference.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now to join us on this exciting journey!