Data Migration Defect Manager - Axial Technology

at  AstraZeneca

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE:

• Strong Project and Programme Management Skills. Proven experience (typically 3-5 years) as a PM across the whole project lifecycle
• Relevant Technical or Business Degree
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with global teams and external partners.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritizing tasks and deadlines effectively.
• Knowledge of Financial Management within Projects and managing external suppliers
• Broad understanding of IT systems and technology implemented within a business context.
• Experience of working with modern IT tooling associated with large scale program delivery, for example JIRA and Automated Testing tools.
• Experience in a validated environment with operational awareness of GxP and SOX.
• Experience of managing SAP projects

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE:

• Experience working with the core business areas of Operations and Enabling Units (Finance, Compliance and Legal).
• Experience in handling technology portfolios across multiple functional areas.
• Experience working in the Biopharmaceutical/Life Sciences industry (not mandatory).
• Project / Programme Management certifications.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES:

• Alignment with AZ Values and Behaviours
• Agile Enterprise mentality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-starter who continuously develops new skills and proactively leads own career and development.
• Excellent influencing, networking, and collaborative working skills
• Able to lead difficult discussions, manage expectations and deliver solutions across complex partner groups.
• Ability to work well in and lead/collaborate across diverse matrixed global teams.
• Expertise in project delivery and change management and problem solving.
• Experienced sustainable relationship management skills with the ability to influence others to achieve objectives.

Desirable Skills and capabilities:

• Experience working in different countries/cultures.
• Experience working with and managing System Integration partners.
• Experience of defining and leading defect management processes.
• Experience of defining and leading change freeze process.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Axial is a strategic multi-year business transformation program helping AstraZeneca achieve its 2030 Bold Ambition. Axial will deliver the new backbone for our innovation, growth, and performance, and the technology driving Axial is SAP S/4HANA and its Business Technology Platform(s).
The Axial Technology team actively partners with our business colleagues to deliver cutting-edge technology capabilities to fulfil AstraZeneca’s bold ambition of delivering life changing medicines to patients. Our ambition is to provide best-in-class expertise and leadership in technological solutions and Information Delivery that empowers our colleagues in the field and accelerates and improves strategic decision-making for a diverse range of partners. The team engages with some of the most exciting business areas within AstraZeneca and is faced with solving for a variety of complex business and IT challenges.
We are seeking for highly skilled and experienced Project Manager to lead and manage projects within the Axial technology workstream.

INTRODUCTION TO ROLE:

• Responsible for tracking and managing the remediation of the identification of defects identified in the data loads in each of the sites in-flight.
• At any time, there could be 3-4 sites in different stages of the data migration process, each of which will have migration defects to manage.
• Hold daily calls with each Data Migration team per site to discuss the status and remediation of the defects according to criticality as well as identifying and logging new defects in Jira.
• Jira will be the tool to capture and manage defect management. You will need to create reports from Jira detailing the defects per site by criticality and remediation status.
• Share defect management reports with the Data Migration leads and Axial Data Migration PM.
• Capture any risks or issues identified during defect management in the Axial RAIDs system.

THE ROLE AND CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Agree and deliver plans for projects / programmes (or contribution to a section of a larger project), including activities, resources, costs, roles, responsibilities, and quality as defined in the IT Project Management Methodology.
• Manage project / programme budgets, forecasts, tasks, schedules, risks, organizational change, and status to support effective decisions and project reporting to collaborators and review boards. Coordinate status and delivery of project workstreams. Identify / manage dependencies between projects (intra-program and across portfolio).
• Work closely with global cross-functional teams to understand project requirements, provide regular updates, and ensure seamless communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage and mitigate project risks, proactively identifying and addressing potential challenges.
• Communicate project progress, updates, and risks to stakeholders, including executives and team members.
• Foster a collaborative and positive team environment, promoting effective teamwork and knowledge sharing.
• Manage changes to project/programme scope, ensuring that all impacts and changes are approved and appropriately communicated to collaborators and review boards.
• Develop service transition plans including controlled hand-over into support and maintenance.
• Ensure the project team adheres to all standards including ADF, quality, and compliance, as well as processes, defined technical capabilities, and standard methodologies. Establish program governance and lead Decision Point reviews, member Steering Committee.
• Support continued development of a world-class centre of excellence for project management capabilities and ensure that standard methodology is adopted and reinforced.