Business Support Coordinator

At AstraZeneca every one of our employees makes a difference to patient lives.  BioPharma Clinical Operations brings together many skills groups to drive critical operational activities for early and late stage medicine development. We are a function of nearly 2,500 people operating in more than 45 countries across the globe, with a shared dedication to collaborate across the enterprise with our collective capabilities in study and site management, data management, technical systems, external vendor management and business processes.  

Through partnership with Clinical Trial programmes across therapeutic areas, our role within Business Support contributes to building strong-cross functional relationships to help accelerate AstraZeneca's portfolio delivery.  We provide support to ensure these groups are able to deliver fast, efficient, ethical and balanced delivery of our clinical trials. Working within this exciting Clinical Trial community gives this team transparency of how AstraZeneca pushes the boundaries of science in pursuit of helping our patients.

This full-time position, reporting so the Senior Business Support Coordinator/Team Leader, requires pro-activity and collaboration, working together with the other co-ordinators in the function and more broadly within BioPharmaceuticals R&D.

Accountabilities:

• Provide support to Executive and Senior directors, managing sophisticated calendars, coordinating meetings and events, and scheduling complicated travel in line with AZ policy
• Work collaboratively with Business Support colleagues to deliver a lean, consistent and professional global support service, including knowledge sharing and training within the team
• Become an expert in using technology to efficiently complete tasks and propose technology based solutions
• Support projects under general mentorship ensuring delivery of project outputs according to plan, reviewing and refining plans as vital
• Independently plan, prioritize, and schedule own workload, ensuring all activities are completed accurately and on time while using and developing best practices
• Point of contact for ClinOps new joiners/visitors to the office

Essential Requirements

• Significant Personal Assistant experience
• Excellent knowledge of spoken and written English language
• Experience in working in a fast paced, cross functional global environment
• Strong written and verbal communication and networking skills
• Proficiency working with Microsoft Office suite, and virtual meeting technologies
• Excellent time management skills
• Strong organizational, forward-planning and stakeholder management abilities
• A high degree of personal credibility and integrity when interfacing with organizations internal and external to AZ

Desirable Experience

• Experience of working in a pharmaceutical or healthcare organisation

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 authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.