Are you ready to make a real difference at one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies? AstraZeneca is building an internal consulting capability in our Global Business Services (GBS) group focused on delivering high-quality project management services to our enterprise organization. We are bringing together a team of experienced project managers who go beyond just “managing the plan” and provide project leadership and insights to the business customers.

As a Project Management Director, you will manage cross-functional, complex projects that often carry high risk and experience some ambiguity in mobilising. You will work closely with our businesses as a project expert and trusted advisor. We will set the highest quality standard, collaborate, and work hard to achieve critical goals on-time, on-budget – delivering value across the organization and delighting our customers.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance, Business, or Healthcare-related major.
• 10+ years experience in programme/project management for large, complex projects.
• Experience managing projects in a global organization.
• – Demonstration of strong, communication and relationship building skills with experience in collaborating and sharing knowledge between teams.
• Experience considering risks, evaluating alternatives, and encouraging input from others to effectively make decisions and plan mitigation tactics.
• Comfortable and skilled in operating in a complex operational matrix organization across diverse, global teams.
• Ability to clearly articulate complex concepts to ensure understanding and alignment.
• Ability to interpret unstructured information into business requirements.
• Ability to perform effectively when faced with unclear solutions or opposing viewpoints.
• Ability to effectively lead a team involving multiple business areas and diverse team member experience levels.
• Experience in relationship management, across both relationship development, maintenance, and ability to understand internal political influence.
• Proven track record in delivering high-risk projects.
• Excellent business engagement and business acumen with sensitivity to internal and external political/economic environment.
• Experience of managing and controlling a project budget.
• Significant experience and skill presenting in front of C-suite/executive level clients through written and verbal channels.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Project Management Certification.
• Management Consulting experience.
• Experience developing internal talent through actionable feedback and career development support.
• Pharmaceutical or equivalent global & complex organization experience; experience of working within a quality and compliance environment and application of policies, procedures and guidelines.