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But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.\nIntroduction to role:\nAre you prepared to lead the functional and fiscal rhythm of a sophisticated, multi-service analytics organization? You will turn fragmented inputs into clear decisions that move the business forward. Do you thrive on connecting people, processes and data to create a reliable foundation that leaders trust?\nServing as the CRA Operations Supervisor, you will anchor the monthly operating cadence and quarterly leadership reporting that underpin investment choices, personnel planning and commercial recovery. Your work will convert detailed workforce, demand, recharge and cost information into concise narratives and actions that drive productivity, fund priority work and ultimately help bring medicines to patients faster.\nYou will partner closely with Service Leads, Finance, process owners and business collaborators to strengthen controls, improve data quality and evolve charging models as services scale. From day one, you will set the pace for reliable submissions, sharp variance explanations and proactive risk management that builds confidence across the leadership team.\nAccountabilities:\nRecharge and commercial management: Lead the end-to-end recharge cycle across services, ensuring accurate inputs, validated assumptions and reconciliations to volumes, workforce plans and approved cases. Prevent missed recovery, maintain audit-ready models and support the shift from FTE-based to volume-based charging.\nWorkforce planning and FTE governance: Own monthly FTE actuals and forecasts, coordinating hiring, attrition, internal moves and phasing. Explain variances versus budget and plan, keep approvals current, and align capacity with demand, utilization, efficiency and recharge outcomes.\nFinancial operations and P&L support: Provide analytical support on labor, third-party spend, internal recharges and efficiency. Track purchase orders and accruals, prepare reconciliations and schedules, and surface risks, opportunities and corrective actions for monthly reviews and planning cycles.\nBenefits, efficiency and business-case governance: Maintain consolidated tracking of benefit delivery, insourcing and efficiency initiatives. Validate assumptions and outcomes with collaborators, align reporting across workforce, recharge and P&L, and highlight realization risks early with practical mitigations.\nOperational and executive reporting: Produce a complete, consistent monthly operational and commercial pack and coordinate leadership reporting on a quarterly basis. Translate sophisticated detail into decision-focused summaries that explain movements, implications and required actions, and drive data consistency and automation across systems and dashboards.\nCollaborator and governance leadership: Act as the central coordination point across Finance, Service Leads, key process coordinators, and Business Leads. Manage a clear calendar for data collection, validation, submission, and follow-up. Lead governance reviews, oversee actions to closure, and influence without authority to set a higher standard for data accuracy and completeness.nes.\nCrucial Skills/Experience:\n8-12 years of meaningful experience in operations management, business operations, commercial operations, finance operations, PMO, workforce planning, shared services or a comparable cross-functional role.\nDemonstrated experience with cost allocation, recharges, budgeting, forecasting, accruals, commercial analysis or P&L support.\nExperience consolidating inputs from multiple teams and presenting accurate reporting to senior collaborators.\nSolid understanding of arguments, benefits realization, productivity measurement and governance processes.\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent experience or equivalent confirmed experience in finance, business, operations, analytics or a related rigor.\nCommercial and financial competence, with understanding of P&L drivers, labor and third-party costs, recharges, accruals, forecasts and arguments.\nAnalytical thinking, with the ability to reconcile sophisticated datasets, identify anomalies, test assumptions and explain variances clearly.\nCollaborator influence, building trusted relationships and influencing senior collaborators without direct authority.\nExecutive communication, developing simple, clear summaries from detailed operational and financial information.\nPlanning and control, running recurring cycles reliably, maintaining documentation and handling high-reaching deadlines.\nDigital fluency with sophisticated Excel capability and confident use of PowerPoint and Power BI.\nContinuous improvement attitude to simplify processes, strengthen controls and advance reporting automation and data quality.\nDesirable Skills/Experience:\nFamiliarity with Jira and ServiceNow.\nExperience supporting the transition from fixed headcount billing to usage-based charging, including service catalogues and true-up mechanisms.\nBackground in shared services, global operations or multi-service environments with sophisticated collaborator landscapes.\nProven track record establishing a single source of truth across multiple systems and driving automation in operational and finance reporting.\nExposure to third-party spend analytics, purchase-order lifecycle management and quarter-end readiness.\nWhy AstraZeneca:\nHere, innovative thinkers and problem-solvers come together to tackle complex challenges with urgency and care, uniting diverse perspectives to unlock bold ideas that make a real difference for patients. You will work shoulder to shoulder with experts across subject areas, with the tools, data and support to test assumptions, take smart risks and turn insights into action. We value kindness alongside ambition, bringing unexpected teams into the same room to challenge convention and build resilient solutions that scale-so your contribution directly powers breakthroughs in science and the business systems that support it.\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.\nAlso You can find alternative messaging to use in the ‘Global Talent Attraction Story messaging’ section of the Global Playbook on the Employer Brand Portal - try to use other examples in order to make it different for candidates!\nCall to Action:\nIf you are ready to build a trusted operational engine that sharpens decisions, accelerates impact and elevates leaders’ confidence, step forward and shape what’s next!\nDate Posted\n12-Nov-2026Closing Date\n15-Nov-2026AstraZeneca 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. 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