Finance at AstraZeneca has a clear vision to become trusted partners, creating value and leading change. As such, Finance has a pivotal role to play in shaping our long-term financial health, partnering to deliver great results through insight, delivering excellence in financial operations and safeguarding AstraZeneca's assets and reputation.

In Finance Transformation, we support this ambition by being trusted partners for change excellence and building long-term capabilities to make us future-fit. This is where you could come in. Working in Finance Transformation is fast-paced, dynamic and challenging. We are looking for people who want to seize the opportunity to take an exciting step in their personal development journey and play a fundamental part of delivering a world-class finance organisation.

In this role you will lead change and communications for one of our FT projects (Tax Transformation), reporting into the central Communications, Change and Training Director. There may also be a requirement to support other, smaller projects as required, as part of the central services offering.

The role is based in AZ Luton, the FT Programme Hub.

You will be:

• Highly experienced Change & Communications professional - ideally with experience in Transformation Projects within finance departments in any sector
• Self-sufficient - able to drive change and comms activities with minimal supervision
• An agile thinker - able to absorb sometimes complex information and interpret it into simple, clear communications and change plans
• Influential - capable of interacting with people at all levels of the organisation, including Senior Leadership in the Finance organisation
• Pro-active in your approach, confident in your capabilities, have exemplary personal judgment and resilience and enjoy working as part of a close-knit team

Key areas of responsibility:

• Conduct Change Impact Assessments
• Develop Change and Business Engagement Plans
• Develop and implement Strategic & Tactical Comms Plans
• Support development of Stakeholder approach and engagement at all levels
• Coordinate the delivery of the Change Plan with regional deployment teams in our hubs across Asia, Europe, North and Latin America.
• Support the Regional Deployment Leads in ensuring business as usual activities are not impacted / interrupted by the programme through change and communication activities
• Coordinate all Business Readiness Activities, with the support of Regional Delivery teams
• Create key messaging and branding in line with AZ direction and establish throughout all channels
• Create and support all levels of Tax transformation messaging including project, change and Corporate (BAU)
• Support and educate project team in development of best practice Communications
• Collect Stakeholder Feedback § Develop reusable engagement materials (localisation)
• Work with Tax Business Improvement Director on Steerco agenda

Essential requirements:

• Proven experience of developing and implementing communications and change plans in a complex multi- stakeholder Finance environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong collaboration, project management, planning and multi-channel delivery experience
• Experience of managing different stakeholder relationships, developing cross-cultural networks and tactfully challenging opinions to achieve desired outcomes
• Strong creative design and execution of digital communications assets
• Excellent eye for detail and upholding visual and verbal identity
• High levels of self-motivation and personal accountability, bringing enthusiasm and energy to the team and peer group
• Willingness and ability to travel between UK and worldwide sites where necessary, in accordance with the latest company Policy relating to COVID-19

Desirable requirements:

• IT change communications
• Change and/or communications formal qualification

AstraZeneca 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. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.