Job Title - Axial (Non-Production) Environments Manager
Career Level - E
We are one purpose-led global organisation. The enablers and innovators, ensuring that we can fulfil our mission to push the boundaries of science and discover and develop life-changing medicines. We take pride in working close to the cause, opening the locks to save lives, ultimately making a massive difference to the outside world.
AstraZeneca (AZ) is in a period of strong growth and our employees have a united purpose to make a difference to patients around the world who need both our medicines and the ongoing developments from our science. In this journey AZ must continue to work across borders and with partners and new colleagues in a fast and seamless way. The ambition, size and complexity of the organisation, coupled with the opportunities afforded by new technology, has led the Board to approve a large-scale transformation programme – Axial.
The Axial Programme will be powered by S/4HANA a new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system which will be implemented right across the organisation and will provide our business with standardised processes, enhanced financial management, common data and real time reporting, transforming the way we work through our entire supply chain - from bench to patient.
The new system will be used by more than 20,000 employees daily, is foundational to all AZ entities and is central to most core business processes. This is a once in a generation programme for AstraZeneca and will shape our ways of working globally for many years to come.
The Axial programme needs the best talent to work in it. Whether it’s the technical skills, business understanding or change leadership, we want to ensure we have the strongest team deployed throughout. We are aiming to deliver a world class change programme that leaves all employees with a fuller understanding of their role in the end-to-end nature of our global company. This programme will provide AZ with a competitive edge, to the benefit of our employees, customers and patients.
What you’ll do
Guadalajara or Chennai
With solid experience in complex transformation programmes and overseeing the provision and delivery of S/4HANA SAP, Non-SAP and legacy ECC SAP environments, as well as the associated integrating middleware connecters, enabling the successful delivery of the required end to end interconnected landscape of environments to support the Axial Deployments in their non-production activities (eg Build and Testing).
Deliverables
Implementation of the Axial Environment Management process and tracking tool (JIRA)
Deployment specific views of the Non-Production environment requirements.
Axial Environment Management Governance and Reporting Process.
Creation of an Non-Production Environment Inventory in the appropriate tool (Lean-IX)
Creation of a cross programme environment conflicts and dependencies schedule, outlining planned system outages and unavailability (ie for a vendor upgrade).
Key Activities
Day to Day tracking of the Environment request process
Partnering with appropriate Axial SAP Infrastructure, BTG, ECS and wider AZIT teams as well as 3rd parties to track the fulfilment of the environment requests to completion.
Reporting on risks and issues related to inability of environments to be available for the requested dates. As well as actively managing the mitigation and resolution of those risks.
Reporting on cross deployment risks and constraints related to environments availability.
Maintenance of Environment requests in the tracking Tool (JIRA)
Maintenance of the Non-Production Environment Inventory in the appropriate tool (Lean-IX)
Align with wider Axial Technology and SD&D teams to ensure environment availability to support activities like Data migration, Configuration deployment and vendor upgrades.
Maintain an schedule of planned outages and cross programme conflicts.
Essential Skills
Strong Environments Project Manager / Senior Solution Architect with experience in Integrating S/4, non-SAP and Legacy ECC SAP.
Large scale transformation experience + global programme
Experience in Pharma / LS – advantageous
Good stakeholder management
Knowledge of Lean-IX
Knowledge of JIRA
Why AstraZeneca?
At Astrazeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.
So, what’s next?
Are you already imaging yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.
Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and hope its yours
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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.