Are you ready to lead complex SAP initiatives that accelerate how we discover, make and deliver life-changing medicines to patients? In this role, you will bring clarity and pace to high-impact programs, aligning plans, budgets and risks so our teams can implement confidently and deliver outcomes that matter.
You will work at the heart of our digital evolution, partnering with delivery teams and business collaborators to shape SAP projects that improve core enterprise processes. Your leadership will translate technology investment into measurable value, from resilient operations to faster decision-making that shortens the path to patients.
This is a hands-on, outcomes-focused role where you will set the standard for governance, data-driven reporting and partner engagement. How would you steer a multi-stream SAP transformation to hit turning points and cost targets without compromising quality?
Project Planning and Delivery: Develop clear project approaches, detailed plans, budgets and timelines. Set well-defined deliverables and work streams that enable delivery teams to meet collaborator needs and achieve agreed outcomes.
SAP Program Leadership: Lead cross-functional SAP projects across finance, supply chain, manufacturing or related domains. Build momentum from day one and drive execution to agreed scope, time and cost.
Partner Engagement: Ensure all collaborators are engaged, informed and committed. Provide accurate progress updates, call out issues per agreed procedures, and represent the project team with credibility.
Risk and Issue Management: Identify, assess and intensify risks early. Apply disciplined risk management methods to enable prompt, cost-effective resolution and protect critical breakthroughs.
Governance and Reporting: Implement effective governance processes and steerco routines. Produce timely, accurate reports on status, risks, costs and decisions to support fast, transparent delivery.
Financial Control: Monitor costs, timescales and resource usage versus agreed tolerances. Act decisively when deviations occur and keep partners aligned on financial performance.
Quality Assurance: Translate partner quality expectations into realistic plans. Ensure teams understand and deliver to these expectations, and verify outcomes against agreed criteria.
Team Performance and Coaching: Track team performance, remove obstacles and create the conditions for high-quality execution. Influence at senior levels to sustain commitment and pace.
Closure and Continuous Improvement: Close projects formally and lead lessons-learned reviews. Capture insights and feed them to relevant forums to improve future delivery.
Data-Driven PMO Support: Chip in to portfolio-level visibility with structured reporting, dashboards and financial tracking that enable smarter decision-making and scalable operations.
Ability to clearly demonstrate the advantages of a proposed approach or solution to client and collaborators
Possess influencing skills and personal presence to successfully represent at the highest level- externally and internally, formally, and informally, inspiring confidence and respect for both the functions represented and as an individual and you can build long-term relationships with colleagues and clients
Ensure effective collaborator management by actively representing the project team to relevant collaborators, ensuring that relationships are built and maintained inside the organization and by ensuring that effective and agreed project governance processes are implemented
Ensure all customers are engaged and remain committed to assigned projects and have complete and continuing awareness of the project plan, key achievements, progress to date and plans to completion, providing regular and accurate reports on progress, issues and plans to relevant collaborators and bringing up any issues to AZ management as per agreed Customer concern Procedures
Identify, assess, and bring up risks to the success of the project, raising awareness of risks in a timely manner to ensure cost-effective and prompt resolution of issues in strict adherence to agreed Risk Management methods
Monitor costs, timescales, resources used and the performance of team members, acting where these deviate from agreed levels and tolerances and ensuring that stakeholders are provided with status reports as agreed
Record and deliver stakeholder’s quality expectations of the project and the constituent deliverables, ensuring that realistic project and quality plans are prepared and maintained; stakeholders and team members all understand, are committed to and deliver to those expectations
Ensure that projects are formally closed and that end of project and lessons learned reviews are completed to ensure that lessons learned are captured and passed to the relevant forum for action
Additional PMO responsibility to monitor costs/budgets for larger projects/programmes including ability to prepare reporting, monitoring, and assisting governance & steerco meetings
Strong skills formulating spreadsheets, ability to create detailed charts and acumen to present right and adequate data for all project deliveries based on the leadership needs
Working experience in project management office tools that helps maintain cost spends, project/program/portfolio statuses and other related activities
Assist in operational excellence related activities and various tower level representations related to combined project deliveries and team performance.
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.
Here, technology fuels scientific breakthroughs with tangible impact on patients. You will join a global, purpose-led organization investing boldly in data and digital to reimagine how medicines are developed and delivered. We bring diverse, unexpected teams together to spark bold ideas, experiment with groundbreaking solutions and scale them across the enterprise, all while valuing kindness alongside ambition. Your work will unlock speed and simplicity for colleagues, enabling the science to move faster and reach those who need it most.
Step into a high-trust, high-impact role where your leadership of SAP delivery will accelerate lifesaving therapies—take the lead and shape the next wave of digital transformation today!
Date Posted
05-Mar-2026Closing Date
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.