Introduction to role

Are you ready to disrupt an industry and change lives? We are seeking dedicated Business Analysts with extensive experience in business analysis within a global setting, particularly those who have been part of significant transformations.

This role involves hands-on business analysis on major programs, collaborating with senior stakeholders to deliver top-notch results that exceed expectations. You'll be part of a dynamic team in our Lisbon office, reporting to the Business Analysis Lead, and engaging with peers across various functions for professional development.

Typical Accountabilities
- Business Needs Identification: Operate at an enterprise level to assess and define business needs and areas for improvement. Proactively seek opportunities to enhance and align with strategic goals.
- Business Analysis Planning: Select appropriate analysis approaches based on complexity, risk, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies. Plan and manage activities to meet deliverables and deadlines.
- Stakeholder Analysis & Change: Identify stakeholders primarily from HR and build relationships according to their needs and influence levels. Contribute to communication plans and change management.
- Requirements Analysis and Design Definition: Manage requirements plans including elicitation, approvals, processes, RAID, and scope impacts. Partner with the Architecture team to ensure technical solutions deliver agreed business benefits.
- Business Case Definition: Shape and define business cases, producing detailed justifications for investment including ROI and benefits realization.
- Solution Evaluation: Analyze solution proposals and articulate supporting reasoning, assessing business readiness and maximizing value vs. spend.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, IT Business Partners, process owners, IT Architecture, delivery teams, Test Lead, and Change Management/Communication Lead.

Essential Skills/Experience
- Degree in relevant discipline or formal certification in business analysis practice.
- Proven experience deploying various business analysis tools/techniques for business change.
- Experience working with complex integrated systems using creative and strategic thinking.
- Strong engagement, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Business acumen; challenge, negotiation, and influence.
- Presentation, communication and facilitation skills.
- Customer Focus; Stakeholder Management; Networking.
- Planning, business process management and requirements management.
- Experience in virtual collaboration to lead innovative solutions.
- Experience mentoring, coaching or developing others.
- Experience managing third-party suppliers/vendors.

Desirable Skills/Experience

- Lean SIGMA training.
- Practical usage of Agile Methodology.
- Experience in a global organization with complex/geographical context.
- Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge.
- HR business awareness/business domain knowledge including HR systems (e.g., Workday HCM).
- User Centred Design (User Experience, User Interface Design).
- Experience working in a regulated environment.

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.

Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. With science at its heart, this is where breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine – for the world’s most complex diseases. Striving to understand the needs of diverse populations and act accordingly, we aim to transform healthcare to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare. Answering unmet needs by pioneering the next wave of science and targeting the drivers of disease helps us create the next generation of therapeutics.

With our ground-breaking pipeline, the outlook is bright. Be proud to take your place somewhere that has already achieved so much and is determined to do more. There is no better time to join our global, growing enterprise as we lead the way for healthcare and society.

Ready to make a difference? Apply now!

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.