SAP S/4hana IT Enterprise Business Partner

**Role Title - SAP S/4HANA IT Enterprise Business Partner - Production to Dispatch Door**

**Global S4Hana Programme**

**Location - Luton, Macclesfield UK, Gartuna SE, Chennai IN,**

**Salary Competitive**

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.

**The role**

The S/4 HANA Enterprise Business Partner will use IT expertise, bio-pharma industry trends and in-depth understanding of AZ business priorities to lead the design capability associated with the Enterprise Process Owners (EPO) for Product to Dispatch Door processes within the S/4 HANA Programme. The role will develop strategic relationships at the highest levels, identifying ways for the S/4 programme to partner achieving and exceeding business objectives. This role will lead the identification of innovative technology solutions, to create maximum competitive advantage, focused on high impact transformational business outcomes. The role has full responsibility for ensuring business processes leverage the appropriate technology and core S/4 design. The role sits on the IT Solution Design Leadership Team within Solution Delivery and Design.

**Typical Accountabilities**
- Own the strategic IT design relationship with the Enterprise Process Owner and other senior business leaders focused on your process domain, developing a deep understanding of the business strategies, priorities and challenges, ensuring that the end-to-end solution design is aligned to business objectives.
- Responsibility for end-to-end solution design across your domain, working with a range of business and IT leaders covering SAP and non-SAP supported processes in shaping the design to hand off to delivery teams in the programme and across Business Technology Groups (BTGs)
- Proactively drive, in partnership with the EPO, strategic technology decisions in your domain in alignment with programme architecture and strategic direction (e.g. PAS-X / SAP DMC, EWM adoption, SAP BRH etc.)
- Ensure the wider IT S/4HANA design and portfolio across your domain is clearly communicated and understood by senior business and technology leaders
- Proactively manage the design process(fit to standard) across your process domain, negotiating expectations to ensure alignment with IT strategy, architecture and delivery capacity across programme workstreams
- Gain business leadership commitment to the fit to standard approach, using specialist knowledge identify relevance of established or new IT solutions within the programme scope
- Proactively identify opportunities through internal and external networks, for IT to deliver innovative solutions to customer issues/challenges and situations where leading edge technological innovations can be deployed to business advantage
- Lead and develop the domain design team function, and associated matrix teams delivered from your area, to ensure effective solution design and collaboration across IT to shape process solutions, driving the development of innovative IT solutions to deliver high quality business outcomes in line with EPO objectives
- Work collaboratively with:
EPO and Technology leadership teams and other senior stakeholders to build their understanding of IT design activities and their impact on strategy, programmes and associated challenges in your domain BTG Portfolio Managers and business areas to drive effecti