Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals Work Values

Daily Duties at Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals:

Perform system administration, business analyst / project management and continuous improvement activities for a global department. • System “Area” / Family Owner responsible for administration, management, and continuous improvement activities for all (~125) Discovery applications used by the Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics (DMPK) department at all research sites. Was the system owner for 6 of 8 LIMS systems containing between $800M and $1.4B USD of primary R&D information assets. • Coordinated system and data retention activities for Wilmington (Delaware), Montreal (Canada), Sodertalje and Lund (Sweden) and Bangalore (India) research sites when these were closed. Secured/Managed/Owned the Primary R&D data stores on these sites. • Identified, managed and/or assisted with strategic initiatives - System support externalization, Sharepoint 2010 Migration, testing externalization (ordering and data return/capture systems), new in silico prediction modeling capabilities and cherry-picking systems for compound management. These allowed for maintaining productivity while migrating from local to globally supported solutions and saved $666,666 each year in software license costs. • Designed, implemented and maintained a HR system to track retirement, severance, and relocation packages for thousands people impacted by four major change initiatives (2008-2012).

What they like about Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

Tags

Research, Robotics, Management, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, Structured Query Language, Budgeting, Capital Budgeting, Data Quality, Quality, Quality Assurance, sql, agile, software

Skills

Research, Robotics, Management, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, Structured Query Language, Budgeting, Capital Budgeting, Data Quality, Quality, Quality Assurance, Problem Solving

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