Associate Director Sustainability Digital Products

AstraZeneca • Full-time • Macclesfield, England, United Kingdom • £36k - £70k / year • 3w ago

Associate Director Sustainability Digital Products

Macclesfield

The Associate Director Sustainability Digital Products role is pivotal in driving change projects effectively, fostering strong strategic relationships with complex customer groups and senior partners, and developing a comprehensive understanding of both short-term and long-term business directions. The incumbent will evaluate and prioritise requirements in alignment with the Global Sustainability Digital and Data strategies, lead high-level investigations into requirements specifications and feasibility studies, and proactively seek opportunities to deploy innovative technology solutions.

Typical Accountabilities:

This role involves building strategic relationships with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders, evaluating and prioritising digital requirements for new digital products in accordance with the Global Sustainability Digital & Data strategy, leading high-level investigations on requirements specifications and feasibility studies, and identifying IT-driven opportunities to deliver innovative technology solutions.

Sustainability Data and Tools:

Proficiency in Life Cycle Assessment, greenhouse gas emissions, waste, and water data is preferred or the successful delivery of sustainability digital products.

Expertise with sustainability reporting systems to identify data automation solutions, functionality, and connectivity with other systems.

Understanding sustainability reporting requirements such as climate modelling.

Sustainability Digital Product Delivery:

Identify opportunities to enhance performance, automation, insights in line with Sustainability Data and Digital Strategies and drive these initiatives to completion.

Provide business knowledge and context for new initiatives within these strategies to IT partners.

Assist in the preparation of business cases.

Employ project management methodologies, including tools and techniques, to deliver digital products.

Tool and Technology Evaluation:

Collaborate with business stakeholders to capture future requirements for sustainability data.

Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies that enhance data capabilities, such as data visualization platforms, analytics software, and data sharing or collection tools.

Implement solutions where practical or communicate requirements to IT teams for inclusion in technical specifications.

Data Access and Integration:

Ensure sustainability data is accessible and readily available for users.

Establish data pipelines, integrate multiple data sources, and manage data warehouses or lakes.

Analysis and Synthesis:

Offer guidance and apply tools and techniques to analyse sustainability data and generate novel insights.

Ensure stakeholder requirements are understood, critically evaluated, prioritised, and addressed.

Data Visualization:

Utilize data visualization tools and techniques to present, communicate, and disseminate data effectively.

Review, advise, and support colleagues outside the data team.

Establish processes, standards, and templates to improve the efficiency and quality of visualizations.

Other:

Advise on data cleansing, data mapping, and standardisation to enhance global data quality.

Continuously improve existing solutions, focusing on enhanced automation and process efficiency.

Essentia Skills & Experience:

Technical knowledge of greenhouse gas emissions data, including fuels, solvents and electricity, and other sustainability data including water and waste.

Proven track record of gathering senior sustainability stakeholder requirements and ability collaborating across different functions and regions.

Strong analytical skills and strategic thinking.

Ability to clean, wrangle, and transform large, complex data sources to generate robust insights.

Good communication skills and the ability to present ideas clearly to stakeholders.

Experience working in a sustainability data analytics or related role.

Experience providing software solutions for collection and visualisation of Sustainability, Safety, Health and Environment data for a large organisation.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

In depth understanding of sustainability reporting systems such as Enablon.

In depth understanding of product Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) evaluating the effects that a product has on the environment and their data requirements.

Ability to work independently, find solutions for complex issues and develop new concepts.

Capability to organize, lead and take responsibility for assigned projects.

Extensive Experience in working with Microsoft Power Platform technologies

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca, we are one purpose-led global organisation. We are 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.

When 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.

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