Business & Strategy & Portfolio Senior Specialist

AstraZeneca • Durham, NC

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

Are you ready to turn complex clinical operations data into clear actions that speed high-quality decisions and ultimately help deliver medicines to patients faster? As a Business & Strategy & Portfolio Senior Specialist in our Operational Data Strategy team at Winchester Place in Durham, North Carolina, you will sit at the intersection of business questions, analytics, and user experience — ensuring leaders see what matters, when it matters, in a way that drives action. Reporting to the Strategic Analytics and Enablement Lead, you will partner with stakeholders across Clinical Operations to shape decisions at the point of need. You will translate complexity into clarity, apply modern analytics and AI-enabled decision support, and scale what works across teams. How would you shorten the time from question to answer, increase confidence in choices, and raise the bar for data-driven decision-making?

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required in Business, Analytics, Data Science, Life Sciences, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in business analytics, strategy, portfolio management, data/BI product delivery, or decision-support analytics.
• Proven experience partnering with stakeholders to co-create, refine, and deliver analytics that support business and strategic decision-making.
• Hands-on experience applying analytics tools, including AI-enabled approaches where appropriate, with strong judgment around quality, ethics, and governance.
• Strong Power BI and BI application experience, including semantic modeling, DAX, performance optimization, and UX/UI design for scalable decision support.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain trade-offs, limitations, and recommendations clearly to business audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver analyses and decision-support products while balancing speed-to-insight with rigor and reproducibility.
• Experience coordinating with stakeholders to support adoption, training, and value realization of analytics and decision-support products.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, clinical operations, R&D, or another regulated environment.
• Familiarity with SQL, ETL pipelines, cloud environments, Agile delivery, BI/AI governance, responsible AI practices, model monitoring, and change management.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to frame high-impact questions, define success metrics, and target the decisions that matter most.
• Turn complex, cross-functional clinical operations data into concise narratives, options, and recommendations that leaders can act on immediately.
• Apply analytics and responsible AI methods to inform what-if scenarios, risk/benefit trade-offs, and portfolio choices with clear governance and quality.
• Design and deliver scalable BI products, including robust semantic models, performant DAX, and intuitive UX/UI that enable confident self-service.
• Standardize effective solutions and scale them across use cases, reducing duplication and accelerating value realization across Clinical Operations.
• Balance speed-to-insight with rigor, auditability, and data assurance; uphold governance and model monitoring where applicable.
• Coordinate training, champion adoption, and track value; gather feedback to iterate and continuously improve decision-support products.
• Communicate trade-offs and limitations clearly; influence roadmaps and align delivery with strategic priorities to maximize business impact.

Benefits

• We value kindness alongside ambition, encourage bold questions, and provide the tools and trust to experiment, learn, and make decisive progress — so your contributions translate into better decisions, stronger pipelines, and tangible impact on patient lives.
• We have a promise to you: to help you realise the full breadth of your potential.
• An inclusive culture where you will connect different thinking to generate new and valuable opportunities.
• A commitment to lifelong learning, growth and development for all.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior