Business Specialist Oncology Medical Affairs

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**Our Role**

**The Business Specialist** leads the tactical management of the business and financial planning responsibilities within a assigned tumour-area. In this role, the Business Specialist is the point-person for entering and managing all medical activities in AstraZeneca’s internal financial system, including mapping actuals, monthly accruals, monthly rephasing, and High-Level / Detail-Level Operation plans. In this role, the Business Specialist will work collaboratively with medical affairs leaders and team members to ensure that tumour-area budgets are accurate and will be responsible for communicating risks and opportunities to our Finance partners. Additionally, the Business Specialist is responsible for contract and operations support by submitting and gaining signature of SOWS, and engaging with the Operations Specialist to ensure that all POs are being generated. _This role is onsite at our Mississauga, ON campus. _This role reports directly to the Finance and Business Planning Lead for US Oncology Medical Affairs but works with the Strategic Project Managers (SPMs), Budget Owners and US Finance.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Manage Anaplan for assigned Tumour-Area/Franchise
- Collaborate with SPMs to submit financial operating plans
- Work with medical budget owners to identify spend trends and report to franchise leadership on risks and opportunities on a monthly basis
- Submit and gain signatures for SOWs, following AstraZeneca procurement policies and procedures
- Provide regular updates on SOW disposition within the AstraZeneca procurement system
- Engage with Operations Specialist to ensure all POs are being generated

**Key Internal Relationships**:

- US Finance
- Medical Franchise Leaders and Budget Owners
- Finance and Business Planning Lead
- Strategic Project Managers
- Internal Enabling Functions (Procurement, MEGO, O2R, etc.)
- Operations Specialist

**Essential Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree (B.S. or B.A.), Business focus strongly preferred
- Experience with budget, finance planning and accounting
- Experience in contract management preferred
- Extensive experience with project management tools and processes
- Effective and collaborative matrix management skills with a focus on guiding diverse groups to achieve excellent results in shared goals
- Strong communication skills with the ability to distill complexity down to what matters to our partners

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience with Coupa, SAP and/or Anaplan
- Pharmaceutical experience, Medical Affairs and/or Oncology experience is preferred

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