Organization Effectiveness(Oe) Consulting Lead

At AstraZeneca every one of our employees makes a difference to patient lives every day. Every one of our people is essential to the work we do and everyone plays a part in ensuring we put patients first. At AstraZeneca we’re relentlessly curious about science, and pursue our work with passion. We believe that when we follow the science, together we can make game-changing discoveries that can transform the lives of patients around the world.

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 and BlueSky Hub in downtown Toronto are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.

The Organization Effectiveness (OE) Consulting Lead will play a key role in delivering on our mission to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. You will partner with business and HR leaders leadership to translate business strategy into organization strategy and actions, and drive these by rigorously assessing all aspects of our current state and operating model, and developing and implementing plans to drive value at all levels of the organization. As an OE Consultant, you will work to identify medium and long term organizational needs through deep business understanding coupled with an outside-in perspective.

This position will report directly into the Organization Effectiveness Practice Director and will support high-impact, high-visibility projects that will drive our competitive advantage.

**You will be responsible for**:

- Working with the HR business partners and AstraZeneca leaders, identify high value OD/OE opportunities to drive enterprise success including analysis of business specific data to influence the creation of strategy
- Driving strategic capability effectiveness
- Outside-in view of AstraZeneca organization
- bringing external insights and industry trends to enhance the organization
- Ability to see and build linkages between and across the organization
- looking at work from a future output perspective rather than functional lines and designing work for the future needs rather than current structure
- Bring design thinking and exceptional problem-solving skills to issue identification and analysis to approach solutions in a user-centered, prototype-driven manner
- Addresses enterprise-wide strategy, organization, and people issues and initiatives with a broad set of global stakeholders
- Examples of work:

- Top Team Effectiveness design and facilitation with senior leaders
- Assessing, designing and leading large scale transformation initiatives to drive business success
- Organization structure and operating model design to drive better performance and enhance employee experience
- Integration of new acquisitions

**You will need to have**:

- Minimum of 10 years of professional experience driving organizational change through either direct roles or consulting experience
- Experience of working in an in, multinational, multicultural and highly matrixed environment
- Experience with autonomous project management
- Can comfortably handle multiple and changing priorities
- High sense of ethics, integrity, confidentiality, and accountability
- High learning agility with natural ability to adapt to changing conditions
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a track record of effectiveness as a team leader, player and project team member who gets results
- Prepared to work in a challenging and busy environment
- Ability to conduct complex organizational analysis to identify OD/OE intervention needs
- Enterprise perspective
- Ability to integrate across business, functions and HR practices
- Mentor and coach HR and business leaders on organization challenges
- Seasoned HR/OE professionals with broad organization and leadership Effectiveness knowledge and experience, and strategic perspectives
- Significant consulting skills to be able to design an engagement, rapidly align on problem statement, recommend / implement courses of action, coach and counsel, and facilitate end of engagement through appropriate knowledge transfer/capability building
- Global mindset
- Self-starter with strong interpersonal skills and confidence
- Able to influence key stakeholders and maintain aplomb with senior leader
- Able to build and sustain credible relationships
- Able to deal with ambiguity and complexity
- Project management

**We would prefer for you to have**:
Bachelor’s Degree Required, advanced degree and/or professional certifications preferred

MBA or Master’s in organization Effectiveness or behavior or equivalent experience (i.e. BS with 8 - 12 years of OD experience)

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- GTAA Top Employer Award for 10 yea