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About the role

The Director of Strategy Implementation plays a crucial role in shaping Global IT strategic direction, ensuring the clear cascade and delivery of strategy. This exciting position is responsible for leading and evolving the Global IT Strategy Deployment process, partnering with the 9 IT functions to provide direction, support, and coaching to enable them to align to IT Strategy and deliver their own strategies.

As the leader responsible for deploying the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) methodology, you'll be accountable for the growth and quality of the Global IT OKR implementation. This includes facilitating engaging workshops and coaching teams to develop their OKRs, ensuring they understand how these fit into the end-to-end strategy deployment process.

As the enterprise capability leader for OKRs, you'll handle a network of coaches, providing guidance to departments beyond IT. In addition, you’ll be responsible for the WorkBoard application system and lead ongoing improvements in results management processes.

To excel in this role, you'll need to be a strategic thinker capable of confidently leading meetings, coaching senior leaders and evangelising OKRs. You must be a passionate team leader driven by the vision of steering strategic success and making a relevant impact across the organization.

Essential Skills & Capabilities

• Extensive experience of leading strategy planning, implementation, and cascade in large organisations.

• Strong mentor / facilitation experience at all levels of an organisation.

• Shown experience in delivering results leading matrix teams

• Knowledge of OKRs.

• Strong strategic approach and customer service orientation.

• Confident coach.

• Ability to transform ambiguity into clarity.

• Networking; proficient in establishing relationships.

• Storytelling and making pitches to large, diverse groups, and to senior leaders.

• Strong change management and problem solving skills.

• Ability to work well in and across diverse, global teams, and validated ability to influence others to achieve positive outcomes.

• Excellence in driving process performance and efficiency improvements (Lean experience a plus).

Desirable Experience

• BA/BSc degree

• Experience with OKR software tools, such as WorkBoard.

• Vendor management

• Able to communicate the potential impact of developments in the IT marketplace on organisations and individuals internal and external to IT

• Functions independently and as a team member (critical thinker who can deliver solutions and drive improvement)

• Consulting skilled

WHY JOIN US? 

There’s a diversity of expertise in our Technology group that’s outstanding to AstraZeneca – it allows us to dive deep into exploring new groundbreaking technology. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering world-class technology and data solutions. Our work unlocks the potential of science. We optimise and evolutionise efficiencies and finding new ways to drive productivity. From automation to data simplification.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we fuel ambitious thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Are you already envisioning yourself joining our team? Good, because we’d love to hear from you! Click the link to apply, and we’ll be in touch shortly.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.