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Together, these teams develop conditions for high performance by making performance drivers visible and actionable. They also strengthen customer engagement, integrate information systems and digital solutions, and build scalable, future-fit working methods across the business.\nThis is a broad and influential leadership role. You will collaborate with senior leaders from Marketing, Medical, Sales, Diagnostics, Transforming Care, Market Access, and Finance. Together, you will identify focus areas, clarify complex challenges, and translate strategic ambition into practical delivery.\nAs a core member of the Oncology Business Excellence Leadership Team, you will help shape how the business operates today and how it evolves for the future. You will influence decisions that impact performance, launches, customer engagement, go-to-market effectiveness, organisational capability and business transformation.\nThis role will suit someone who is energised by breadth, comfortable leading through ambiguity, and driven to enhance business performance through people, process, data and technology.\nWhat you'll do\nLead the Business Operations function\nSet clear direction across a diverse portfolio of specialist teams.\nCreate alignment around the priorities that matter most to business performance.\nBuild a high-performing, accountable and inclusive culture.\nDevelop leaders and specialists while ensuring their work contributes to a coherent Business Operations strategy.\nPrioritise investment, resources and focus across competing demands.\nDrive business performance\nPartner with senior leadership to interrogate performance, find opportunities and influence business decisions.\nUse insight, customer engagement understanding and commercial judgement to guide business priorities.\nBring clarity to complex challenges and translate them into actionable plans.\nConnect strategy, data, technology, processes and organisational capability to improve outcomes.\nSupport the business to maximise in-line performance, prepare for launches and sustain long-term growth.\nLead transformation and future capability\nShape the evolution of the OBU operating model and go-to-market approach.\nSponsor and integrate transformation across commercial effectiveness, business excellence, data and digital capabilities.\nDrive adoption of future-fit ways of working that are scalable, sustainable and measurable.\nMaintain momentum across multiple large-scale initiatives, ensuring delivery and impact.\nPartner with Global and EUCAN teams to employ established strategies and accelerate local execution.\nOversee critical Business Operations capabilities\nProvide leadership and direction across Commercial Effectiveness, Data Operations, Digital Transformation, Business Excellence, Business Planning and Meetings & Events.\nRetain overall accountability for critical operational capabilities including business planning, customer engagement enablement, segmentation and targeting, incentive operations, launch readiness and Key Account Management evolution.\nEnsure clear ownership, effective governance and measurable outcomes across the portfolio.\nEssential requirements/Experience:\nLeadership in complexity\nSignificant experience leading multidisciplinary teams, major organisational initiatives and broad business-critical portfolios. \nDemonstrated ability to create clarity, alignment and momentum in complex environments.\nStrong judgement and decision-making in situations where information is incomplete or evolving.\nProven track record to develop people, set high standards and drive accountability.\nResilience, adaptability and a track record of delivering through change.\nCommercial and strategic leadership\nStrong commercial judgement and experience influencing business performance, customer engagement or go-to-market decisions.\nExperience connecting organisational strategy with operational execution.\nStrong understanding of pharmaceutical business performance, launches, customer engagement and cross-functional working.\nAbility to identify underlying business challenges and determine the right combination of people, process, data and technology to solve them.\nExperience leading business transformation from concept through implementation and adoption.\nSenior leadership presence and influence\nCredibility and confidence working with senior leaders across multiple functions.\nExperience in commercial leadership, franchise leadership, business excellence or transformation roles. \nCandidates from Business Excellence or transformation backgrounds should demonstrate substantial commercial decision-making experience and clear accountability for business outcomes\nExecutive-level communication and stakeholder management skills.\nAbility to challenge constructively, influence without authority and build alignment around difficult decisions.\nComfortable moving between strategic conversations and practical delivery detail.\nStrong organisational awareness and stakeholder judgement.\nYou will be equally comfortable challenging senior leaders, developing high-performing teams, shaping strategy and ensuring execution follows through. \nDesirable experience\nLeadership experience across multiple functions, therapy areas or markets.\nExperience in Oncology, Speciality Care or another complex healthcare environment.\nExperience working within both promotional and non-promotional healthcare functions.\nExperience introducing or scaling data, automation, AI or digital capabilities within a business environment.\nWhen we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold 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.\nWho will thrive in this role?\nWhat matters most is not your functional background. It is your ability to understand how organisations perform, connect multiple perspectives, lead specialists with credibility and create direction when the answer is not obvious.\nIf you are motivated by improving performance, building organisational capability and leading meaningful change at scale, we'd encourage you to apply.\nBusiness Area:\nAt AstraZeneca UK, we are committed to delivering against three missions:\nAccelerating the position of the UK as a global centre of excellence in life sciences\nRedefining healthcare through fast and equitable access to the most effective medicines, high quality care\nDelivering sustainable leadership that prioritises healthy people, society and planet\nOur head office in Pancras Square offers us the strongest possible platform to transform the lives of patients, as the country’s leading biopharmaceutical company. It brings AstraZeneca UK closer to our customers, partners and collaborators in the UK’s healthcare environment, as well as develop greater collaboration with the wider AstraZeneca footprint.\nAt AstraZeneca, we are on a journey to bring life-saving medicines to patients. Our role in contributing to decreasing mortality rates globally is clear. We are shaping the future by spotting scientifically-led commercial opportunities and acting now to operationalise and scale them. Driven by the solutions we bring to the healthcare ecosystem, we make an impact at every step of the patient journey.\nInterested? Apply now.\nDate Posted\n11-Oct-2026Closing Date\n23-Oct-2026Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. 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