Senior IT Business Partner - (HR)

Location

Macclesfield, Cheshire | United Kingdom

Job description

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

ABOUT OUR IT TEAM

Here our work has a direct impact on patients – transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working, combining pioneering science with leading digital technology platforms and data. All with a passion to impact lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning and more. Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise.

The Role:

The Senior IT Business Partner will develop strategic relationships within the larger customer areas and identify ways for IT to partner with them in achieving and exceeding business objectives. The role will give you the opportunity to drive the delivery of innovative HR business solutions to build maximum competitive advantage.

This is a hands-on, business facing role and is underpinned by very significant investment and ambition in IT and transformation. You will work with senior HR leaders at VP and Director level. You will combine in-depth understanding of the business area direction and IT expertise to drive the delivery and continuous offering of innovative technology solutions. It’s an opportunity to really make a difference….!

Typical Responsibilities

• Build strong strategic relationships with sophisticated customer groups and senior HR partners in the Reward, Inclusion and Talent Acquisition domains, developing a deep knowledge of the short-term and long-term business direction.
• Assess and prioritise requirements in line with IT strategy
• Develop and maintain the customer account plan, including accurate customer forecasting, demand planning and effective delivery of the plan
• Leads a portfolio of investments, prioritizing to align with emerging business strategy
• Lead high-level investigations on requirements specifications and feasibility studies, developing a range of options aligned to business and IT strategy
• Lead business impact assessments, identifying risks and issues that may affect current and future business units and roles, and create business readiness plan
• Proactively see opportunities for IT to deliver pioneering technology solutions to provide competitive advantage
• Present and gain commitment to IT initiatives, using specialist knowledge to gain dedication to established or new IT services

Work collaboratively with:

• Business and IT leadership teams and other senior partners to build their understanding of IT strategy, programmes and challenges
• IT Strategy, Architecture, Portfolio Management and Project/Programme Management to agree the future shape of proposed solutions and initiate projects in partnership
• Other customer area Business Partners to create alignment and identify cross-business innovative opportunities
• Business Analysts to management requirements and build cases
• Portfolio Managers and Solution Delivery leads to initiate projects, clearly define scope and monitor the delivery of project value compared to the promised benefits
• Customer Service function to ensure the IT services plans are established for the customer group and are operating optimally

What experience do we need?

• Domain knowledge of the HR function and technology landscape
• Evidence of leading and developing innovative solutions
• A consistent record of delivering results
• Experience of building high value business cases & mobilising high value investments
• Experience of leading teams with a demonstrable track record of motivational and achievement-oriented leadership
• Experience of leading third party suppliers and have strong network and consulting skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong influencing, networking and team working skills
• High level awareness of developments in the Information Technology marketplace
• Demonstrate strong relationship building skills with the ability to influence others to achieve objectives
• Proficiency in planning, change management and problem solving and able to resolve issues of a highly complex and strategic nature
• Ability to relate and respond to business needs in an IT environment.
• Ability to lead negotiations, expectations and solutions across complex groups

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working give 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 bold world.

Closing date: 10th November

SO, WHAT’S NEXT?

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we’d love to hear from you! Click the link to apply, and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.

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Competitive salary on offer.

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