Procurement Business Analyst

📌Positions are open to Mexican Citizens and official residents of Mexico.

📍Location: Guadalajara (hybrid)

📌Strong English required

📌Must submit Resume in English.

Introduction to role:
Join us as a Procurement Business Analyst, a role that offers the opportunity to deliver small to medium size business change activities. This role requires high levels of interactive communication, demonstrating inclusion and cultural sensitivity. You will partner with Sr. Business Partners/Business Partners, taking ownership to deliver high quality cases, business process designs and ensure that proposed solutions meet established AstraZeneca quality and compliance standards and business solution needs.

Accountabilities:
As a Business Analyst, you will prioritize business requirements from multiple collaborators, interpret and simplify them for easy analysis, solution design and decision making. You will propose and deliver solutions to achieve agreed outcomes, ensuring that solutions fulfil their future strategic needs and challenges. You will also facilitate and lead design sessions with the business and implementation team to identify functional and technical requirements. Your role will involve planning and leading your own and other team member's activities to fulfill work requirements and meet deadlines.

Crucial Skills/Experience:
• Experience with Vendor Risk & Vendor Onboarding
• Experience with Ariba and/or Coupa platforms > 2 years
• Experience with Direct & Indirect Procurement platform/Processes > 2 years
• Working Understanding of Data Lake (Snowflake) and Reporting Capabilities
• Demonstrable experience of optimally deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
• Strong engagement, communication and partner leadership skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills 
• Experience of mentoring, coaching or developing others
• Discernment
• Challenge, negotiation and influence
• Presentation, Communication & Facilitation
• Customer Focus
• Team member Management
• Requirements Management

 Desirable:

• Degree or equivalent experience in relevant field or formal certification in business analysis practice
• End to End Procurement Processes (S2C, P2P)
• Category Management Application Experience
• Practical usage of Agile Methodology
• Experience of working in a global organisation with sophisticated/geographical context
• Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge
• Cross industry business awareness/business domain knowledge
• Experience of working with and running third party suppliers/vendors
• User Centred Design (User Experience, User Interface Design and Business Process Design)

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we spark bold thinking with the power to encourage 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 outstanding and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, we are on a ground-breaking journey, fusing our digital and data capabilities with backing from the business to make it happen. We are using our leading technologies and exploring data to make improved decisions and help the business to reach the right outcomes, quicker. We are a complementary team of technical experts, each bringing something different to the table. What unites us is our dedicated desire to learn. We understand how to add value to ourselves, the business and our patients. We're not only backed by huge investment, we also feel valued. And, as our data and digital capabilities expand every day, we know we're playing our part in accelerating AstraZeneca's growth.

Ready to craft AstraZeneca's digital journey? 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.