External Funding Specialist

5 months ago

Mississauga, Canada AstraZeneca Full time

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation - ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office is purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.

**Major Responsibilities**:

- This role will act as a reviewer and approver of all External Funding requests with a compliance lens - assessing each request against the guiding principles of AstraZeneca’s External Funding Global Standards, Local Standards and the IMC Code.
- Review will require complex analysis and decision making where requests are unique and not following our codes and standards
- Maintain administrative control procedures to ensure standards are adhered to and that elements of compliance program are consistently applied
- This oversight role will have accountability to ensure due diligence by both the requestor and other organizations involved in funding requests are completed to necessary standards in the CyberGrants system
- Lead cross-functional collaboration with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across Canada MC on External Funding Requests to understand the nature of the request and help mitigate any compliance risks
- Responsible for assessing the post funding materials from the External Funding Requests for completeness and accuracy of records and liaise with relevant stakeholders on any required follow up actions
- Set up the payment and triage requests to appropriate reviewer and business approvers in CyberGrants
- Develop and Support training and communication in relevant SOPs and local market ethical standards and practice to relevant stakeholders
- Consult and escalate compliance, ethics or legal matters.
- Build and maintain positive working relationship across Canada MC in support of internal processes and practices.
- Act as a role model and ensure ethical/professional behaviour
- Increasingly expected to act without supervision or with mínimal supervision to manage / deliver high quality project outputs
- Assume and perform other duties and responsibilities not specifically outlined herein, but which are logically and properly inherent to the position (i.e. reporting, training, etc.)

**Minimum Requirements**
- Bachelor’s degree. Minimum 2 years of experience in quality, compliance or regulatory in a regulated environment such as pharmaceutical, clinical, or medical devices
- Bilingual in English & French
- Strong technical/systems experience and skills
- High ethical standards, trustworthy, operating with absolute discretion
- Ability to quickly learn and work within AZ administrative tools and processes
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and adjust workload as business needs require.
- Strong attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Capable of working independently
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and demonstrated ability to partner effectively with others
- Excellent relationship and interpersonal skills, leadership and influencing - able to influence without authority commanding respect through actions

**Preferred Background**
- Experience in a similar role
- Prior experience in the biopharmaceutical industry (Sales, Marketing, Research & Development, Compliance, Legal, Procurement) or a consulting firm working with pharmaceutical clients
- Compliance / regulatory related project experience would be advantageous

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