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Director, R&D IT Operational Excellence
Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals Lp · 🇨🇦 Canada - Mississauga
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About the role
Director, R&D IT Operational Excellence Mississauga, ON IT Hybrid Work- on average 3 days/week from office The Director, R&D IT Operational Excellence is a senior leadership role responsible for driving governance, operational performance, workforce strategy, financial stewardship, organizational effectiveness, and change adoption across R&D IT. As a member of the Operational Excellence organization, this role partners with Capability, Portfolio, Finance, HR, Strategy, and Quality leaders to ensure disciplined execution of strategic priorities, effective decision-making, transparent performance management, and alignment to enterprise objectives. The role serves as the operational leader for assigned R&D IT capability portfolios, overseeing governance, planning, workforce and capacity management, performance reporting, financial oversight, and continuous improvement. The Director connects strategy to execution by establishing scalable, data-driven operating models that improve organizational effectiveness and support AstraZeneca's digital, data, and AI ambitions. In addition, this role leads enterprise-wide change management across R&D IT, communications, employee engagement, and AI enablement initiatives that accelerate technology adoption, strengthen organizational capability, and enhance the employee experience across R&D IT. What you'll do Operational Excellence & Governance • Lead operational excellence activities across assigned R&D IT capability portfolios, ensuring alignment to organizational objectives and enterprise governance standards. • Partner with senior leaders within R&D IT to identify and assess operational inefficiencies, prioritize, drive process standardization and optimization, automation, and AI-enabled improvements that increase organizational effectiveness, consistency, scalability, and employee productivity. • Partner with R&D IT Operations Leads to facilitate process standardization across functional areas, fostering a collaborative, one-team approach. • Drive operational discipline through governance reviews, compliance monitoring, risk management, and corrective action planning. Provide regular reporting against targets, broken down by functional area, and partner with stakeholders to course-correct where needed. • Lead operational cadences including but not limited to conducting business reviews, governance forums, operational reviews, and planning activities, including defining agenda and recapping decisions and meeting minutes. • Build strong partnerships across Finance, HR, SP&Q, Portfolio Excellence, Enterprise Functions, and broader R&D organizations. • Influence stakeholders across a complex, matrix environment to achieve organizational objectives and drive sustainable outcomes. Performance Management & Executive Reporting • Own development and consolidation of business, R&D IT and capability scorecards, frameworks, and executive performance reporting. Provide narrative and speaking-note support for senior stakeholders, including presentation materials for executive-level review and quarterly performance storytelling. • Establish, review and maintain operational health indicators & dashboards, KPIs, OKRs, and executive reporting mechanisms. • Translate complex operational, financial, workforce, portfolio, and AI adoption data into concise, actionable insights for senior leadership. • Establish & leverage existing reporting frameworks that improve organizational visibility, accountability, and decision-making. • Supports annual and multi-year planning activities including Mid-Term Planning (MTP), Long-Term Planning (LTP), business planning cycles, strategic roadmaps, and investment prioritization. Workforce Strategy, Capacity & Resource Management •