Director - Regional Site IT Business Partner (Asia Pacific)

Regional Site IT Business Partner (Asia Pacific)

Introduction to role:

Are you a seasoned professional with broad experience in managing business relationships and partners? Do you have a consistent track record in manufacturing sites, leadership, and vendor management skills? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you. We are looking for a Regional IT Technical Director to lead a team of skilled IT professionals across Asia Pacific, primarily in China and Japan. This role is fundamental to the success of our business, combining ground breaking science with leading digital technology platforms and data.

Accountabilities:

As a Regional IT Technical Director, you will be responsible for ensuring the highest levels of user experience and satisfaction for all services delivered into a region. You will manage expectations proactively and enable colleagues to exploit our services at a regional level. Leading all aspects of the lifecycle management of local infrastructure, you will work closely with relevant ETS Tower on the currency of servers in the region to ensure resilience and minimise business risk.

Essential Skills/Experience:

- A passion for delivering world-class service continually challenging in pursuit of the user experience and striving for improvement performance.
- Proficient in English written and spoken, second language beneficial but not crucial.
- Significant experience in the Bio/Pharma or Retail industry for service
- Strategic problem solver, with innovative ideas and solutions for service delivery and exploitation
- Strong technical understanding across a range of technologies/domains.
- Superb communication and engagement skills and a proven relationship management professional
- Strong partner skills to manage regional negotiations, expectations and resolutions.
- Strong influencing, networking and team working skills
- Strong experience working in a standards/governed/compliant environment
- Proven track record of owning and delivery IT Services in large organisation.
- Excellent knowledge of ServiceNow ITSM Toolset or similar.
- Proven experience owning, managing vendors, contracts, renewals, RFP activities.
- Leader and teammate – sets example for team leads, line managers and others to follow.
- Significant experience managing, developing teams with an open, honest, accountable and collaborative team environment

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash 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 believe in disrupting an industry and changing lives. 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 ground breaking science with leading digital technology platforms and data. We dare to lead, applying our problem-solving attitude to identify and tackle opportunities across the whole enterprise. Our spirit of experimentation is lived every day through our events like hackathons. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering world-class technology and data solutions. Our work unlocks the potential of science. We optimise and revolutionise AstraZeneca by improving efficiencies and finding new ways to drive productivity. From automation to data simplification.

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact? Join us at AstraZeneca, where everything we do matters.

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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.