Process Mapping Expert - Temporary, 6 Months. Luton or Macclesfield, x3 days per week on-site / x2 remote
Role: Process Mapping Expert
Role Type: Temporary – 6 Months + Possible Extension
Location: Luton or Macclesfield (x3 days on site per week / x2 working remote) flexibility to come down slightly once familiarised with role and programme.
Your New Company
We are one 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 to come.
This programme requires the best. Whether it be the 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 global company.
This programme will provide AZ with a competitive 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.
- Contribute to the improvement of a process excellence methodology and standards to align people, process, data and technology across AZ
- Train and coach process excellence capabilities and use of business process tooling
- Assist in the governance of requests for changes to a common AZ business process framework
- Assist in proactive monitoring of business process to provide assurance that published business processes are maintained and improved in line with established standards
- Leverage, govern and optimize process excellence technologies
- Support business ownership of the process excellence tooling
- Develop a migration path for applicable processes to be managed using the business process tooling
- Assist in the pro-active monitoring of the business process to provide assurance that the published business processes are maintained and improved in line with established standards
- Partner with business and programme teams to identify high-impact opportunities for process optimisation, developing strategic improvement roadmaps that leverage insights from completed business process mapping exercises.
Essential Skills
- Strong Process Mapping skills & experience
- Process thinking skills/ Process Excellence experience
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.
- Experience of using or managing BPM applications
- Demonstrable experience applying Lean, Six Sigma, or comparable continuous improvement methodologies to process design, optimisation, or transformation projects.
Confident presenter and live process mapping workshop facilitator
- SAP / S4Hanna experience advantageous or ERP experience
- Confident presenter and live process mapping workshop facilitator
- Experienced in providing training and coaching
- Excellent networking, collaboration, and communication skills
- Confident in engaging with stakeholders
Desirable for the role
- Experience in a similar Process Excellence role
- SAP implementation experience
- Experience of working with financial or quality process controls
- 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.
- Track record of facilitating or coaching process improvement or optimisation activities in complex, data-driven business environments, such as SAP S/4HANA projects or comparable 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 to come. 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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- Ethan Muse
