Role: Process Mapping Expert (S/4 HANA)Role Type: Temporary – 6 Months + Possible ExtensionLocation: Luton or Macclesfield (x3 days on site per week / x2 working remote) flexibility toe down slightly once familiarised with role and programme.Your NewpanyWe are a purpose-led global organisation. The enablers and innovators, ensuring that we can fulfil our mission to push the boundaries of science and discover and develop life-changing medicines. We take pride in working close to the cause, opening the locks to save lives, ultimately making a massive difference to the outside world.Our current technology is used by more than 20,000 employees daily, is foundational to all AZ entities and is central to most core business processes.
This programme provides the opportunity for real transformation and to shape the way of working globally for many years toe.This programme requires the best.
Whether it be technical skills, business understanding or change leadership, we want to ensure we have the strongest team deployed throughout.
The programme seeks to deliver a world-class change programme that leaves all employees with a fuller understanding of their role in the end-to-end nature of our globalpany.
This programme will provide AZ with apetitive edge, to the benefits of its employees and patients.You will be a key member of the Process Excellence team, driving the introduction and use of business process methods and tools to ensure the success of the design, implementation and use of business processes on major projects, including SAP S/4HANA. You will bring experience of business process execution and problem-solving to support transformational change. Able to work with a network of stakeholders to inform requirements and change impacts, develop a forward plan and drive plan delivery.
Your New Role Acting as a member of the Centre of Process Excellence team, this role will help to drive SAP S/4HANA process design with a view to supporting process excellence initiatives across the business.
1. Contribute to the improvement of a process excellence methodology and standards to align people, process, data and technology across AZ
2. Train and coach process excellence capabilities and use of business process tooling
3. Assist in theernance of requests for changes to amon AZ business process framework
4. Assist in proactive monitoring of business processes to provide assurance that published business processes are maintained and improved in line with established standards.
5. Leverage,ern and optimise process excellence technologies
6. Support business ownership of the process excellence tooling
7. Develop a migration path for applicable processes to be managed using the business process tooling
8. Assist in the proactive monitoring of the business process to provide assurance that the published business processes are maintained and improved in line with established standards.
9. Partner with business and programme teams to identify high-impact opportunities for process optimisation, developing strategic improvement roadmaps that leverage insights frompleted business process mapping exercises.
Essential Skills
10. Strong Process Mapping skills & experience
11. Process thinking skills/ Process Excellence experience
12. Practical exposure to process optimisation or operational excellence within SAP S/4HANA, ERP, or other large-scale transformation initiatives, using structured problem-solving and process improvement tools.
13. Experience working in a supply chain environment Network, Strategy and Supply Chain Planning.
14. Experience of using or managing BPM applications
15. Demonstrable experience applying Lean, Six Sigma, orparable continuous improvement methodologies to process design, optimisation, or transformation projects.
16. Confident presenter and live process mapping workshop facilitator
17. SAP / S4Hanna experience advantageous or ERP experience
18. Confident presenter and live process mapping workshop facilitator
19. Experienced in providing training and coaching
20. Excellent networking, collaboration, andmunication skills
21. Confident in engaging with stakeholders
Desirable for the role
22. Experience in a similar Process Excellence role
23. SAP implementation experience
24. Experience of working with financial or quality process controls
25. Lean Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or above) or experience in leading or supporting Lean/Six Sigma projects, with clear evidence of value delivered in business process environments.
26. Track record of facilitating or coaching process improvement or optimisation activities inplex, data-driven business environments, such as SAP S/4HANA projects orparable ERP settings.
WHY ASTRAZENECA?
It's an exciting time to join AstraZeneca, a global business that's rapidly growing - there's a lot happening and even more toe. And we are a valued part of this journey. Respected partners across the business, we provide the platform that's going to power us to achieve more.
So, what's next? Are you ready to bring new insights and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available, and we hope it's yours. Please apply with a copy of your CV.
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