**Global SAP S/4HANA Programme**
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.
AstraZeneca (AZ) is in a period of strong growth and our employees have a united purpose to make a difference to patients around the world who need both our medicines and the ongoing developments from our science. In this journey AZ must continue to work across borders and with partners and new colleagues in a fast and seamless way. The ambition, size and complexity of the organisation, coupled with the opportunities afforded by new technology, has led the Board to approve a large scale transformation of the IT landscape by the replacement of current ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems with one global solution.
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.
We are now looking for regional Pricing Leads who will be responsible for designing and delivering enterprise level standardised pricing execution processes and use of SAP and complimentary connected technology. This will involve identifying and delivering that process improvement and harmonising the overall process and technology design to meet current business objectives, regulatory requirements and prepare for future development of these needs and objectives.
**Key Responsibilities**
Lead the end-to-end pricing process and technology design in the Axial programmed for your region. This will include:
- Exploring the current pricing challenges and complexities in your region
- Identifying how pricing structures can be more standardized, repeatable, and scalable, leveraging standard core capabilities of SAP S/4 HANA and 3rd party additional pricing solutions.
- Working collaboratively, partnering across the end-to-end process to ensure a clear flow of data and process hand offs and hand ins are known, identified and interdependencies understood and agreed.
- Managing several stakeholders across finance, global pricing implementation, market access, commercial and technology to design the right process and technology solutions for AZ to support the business' next phase of growth.
- Leading the design and the key design outputs to determine the correct technologies, process and operating model for delivering on AZ's pricing requirements for both internal and external stakeholders.
- Reviewing, understanding, and assessing AZ's current pricing processes and solutions.
- Understanding the new capabilities of SAP S/4 HANA and possible extension partners in the pricing space and how they can integrate, enhance, or replace the current processes and technologies.
- Designing and inputting into the new enterprise data model for pricing.
Once the design phase is complete, you will support the build and change management to prepare for implementation of new pricing process and technologies from an order and distribution to cash perspective working in partnership Axial programme team members from other process areas. This will include:
- Supporting the internal and external technology teams by refining requirements and co-creating solutions where roadblocks exist
- Identifying gaps in the current process or teams and an action plan for remediation and readiness prior to implementation
- Executing on the action plan for remediation and readiness in advance of implementation, incorporating global perspectives and nuances to produce the strongest outcomes.
- Escalating key issues and roadblocks from a people, process and technology/data perspective for further consideration and remediation
- Liaising with cross-functional stakeholders across all markets and global functions required to ensure change acceptance, training and adoption readiness are established prior to implementation.
Other more general activities as part of the role could include:
- Provide expertise with regards to SAP S/4HANA and possible extension partners capabilities and standard process design for pricing.
- Support the program Enterprise Process Lead for Pricing to ensure the design maximizes opportunities for improvements and c