Associate Director, Capacity Management

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 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.

Our dedication to sustainability is also central to our culture and part of what makes AstraZeneca a great place to work. We know the health of people, the planet and our business are interconnected which is why we’re taking ambitious action to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to access to healthcare and disease prevention.

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

**Summary of the group**:
Biopharmaceutical Development’s (BPD) Business Planning and Operations team leads the development and implementation of BPD’s functional strategy and operational business planning and support. Major areas of responsibility include supporting the creation of long-term technical objectives, development of annual budgets, functional resource management, contract management, and ensuring cross functional leadership bodies and business processes are effective.

**Main Duties & Responsibilities**
- Acts as a technical owner with an understanding of capacity management processes and systems
- Adopt the role of process or system owner for key resource management systems used by BPD (e.g. PLANIT, RESOURCEIT, CAPIT, MYTIME)
- Ensure R&D portfolio information and tools are reliable (i.e. contain up-to-date and accurate information) and are deployed to effectively support planning and control (P&C) of BPD FTE allocation / budgets in alignment with TA demand.
- Independently review data and suggest improvements to templates, algorithms, tools and processes.
- Coordinate with Finance and functional accountable leaders to support Rolling Budget Update (RBU)/Long Term Plan (LTP), and Mid Term Plan (MTP) business processes.
- Develop, implement, and maintain the global and functional BPD tools and business process for resource/capacity planning in conjunction with key partners across BPD.
- Supports BPD functions in the area of capacity management
- Support functional leaders (SET-2) and their functional delegates in development and maintenance of high-quality resource demand estimates for specific SET-2 functions, specific skill sets and specific portfolio projects.
- Support SET-2 functions by implementing central proceses for review, report, and assessment of functional demand and capacity. Actively identify functional operation resource gaps and implement opportunities to simplify processes/way of working.
- Act as an expert for functional algorithms, demand, capacity, and actual efforts and generate routine reports to provide insights on functional capacity and utilization
- Support periodic SET-2 reviews of resource allocation, rebalancing and supply/ budget constraints. Provide input to any assessment of the ability of BPD function’s to deliver the portfolio / budget expectations required to broader capacity management team
- Liaises with key stake holders across the organization to ensure teams are providing accurate resource management data
- Support BPD Functions interactions with BPD Governance bodies and leadership team. Ensure reliable process for information collection and reporting.
- Support ad-hoc resource analysis requests in support of external benchmarking efforts or internal BPD leadership team discussions

**Education & Experience Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline
- Experience in capacity/resource analysis and management

**Required Skills**:

- Previous experience of working in the Pharmaceutical and/or Healthcare industry.
- Experience in Portfolio and/or Project management in a large and complex multinational business environment
- Preference for someone with expertise in drug development resource and capacity tracking and analysis (business case/decision analysis, scenario modeling and forecasting).
- Excellent data analysis skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent with Microsoft Excel and POWERBI
- Good negotiation skills

**Desired Skills**:

- Experience with use of MS SharePoint and MS Teams
- Experience with portfoli