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S4HANA Enterprise Process Lead - Pricing
Macclesfield UK, Luton UK, Gärtuna; Gothenburg; Snäckviken SWE
Competitive Salary + Benefits
Job Description
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 substantial difference to the outside world.
AstraZeneca (AZ) has been through a sustained period of strong pipeline growth and has united purpose to make a difference to patients around the world who need our medicines and the ongoing developments from our science. In this journey AZ need to continue to work across borders and with partners and new colleagues in a fast and seamless way.
The 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 process and technology landscape that underpins our entire supply chain and financial capability.
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 best-in-class change programme that leaves all employees with a better understanding of their role in the end-to-end nature of a fully global company. This programme will provide AZ with a competitive edge, to the benefits of its employees and patients.
This key role will focus on establishing a standardised, dependable, scalable and sufficiently agile process in delivery of AZ product pricing. Incorporating transfer pricing, published and confidential pricing agreements the successful individual will be responsible for the successful execution of pricing models using S4 HANA and connected technology combined with external data sources.
You will be required to deliver complex pricing agreements and rebates at an enterprise level meeting the needs of our commercial markets. Ensuring accurate, timely and repeatable high quality financial accounting in this key area of gross to net margin management and reporting.
The role will also play a pivotal role in elevating pricing/margin insight to key stakeholders supporting improved pricing decisions and margin performance. Additionally the role will also be responsible for building and leading a team of dedicated specialists to deliver the execution of commercial pricing agreements.
Leading a team of direct reports as part of the larger S4 programme team, this role will also work with finance, commercial and legal teams within Business Units (Therapy areas), Markets and Business Areas and will lead the work that:
Identifies how pricing structures can be more standardised, repeatable and scalable
Provides input into the contracting process to shape contract content and potential pricing options or structures available to improve execution of contractual agreements
Establish influential and highly collaborative relationships with key partners
Works collaboratively, partnering across the end to end process to ensure a clear flow of data and process hand offs and hand ins are known, identified and interdependencies understood and agreed
Utilises standard core capabilities of SAP pricing and how these can be applied at scale
Designs and delivers a centralised and controlled process delivering the execution of pricing within SAP
Identifies the use of 3rd party additional pricing solutions to support more complex pricing requirements
Establishes an approach to track of prices globally to facilitate accurate rebates, royalties and credits, including but not limited to Innovative Value Streams and Outcome based pricing
Defines the data needed to operate these processes reliably and accurately
Ensures Process development enables AstraZeneca to meet all applicable regulatory standards, eg FCF, SOX, accounting GAAP etc
Builds and delivers product margin insight in accurate and timely reporting to enable improved pricing decision making
Defines and operates future organisation model of pricing execution and insight reporting within AZ
Supports the deployment of the above.
Keeps self and others up to date on recent developments and emerging trends on an internal and external basis
Essential
Able to challenge and be challenged while sustaining good relationships
People management and influencing skills
Demonstrated success working in a team environment and leading from the front.
Proven success building cross-functional global networks and collaborator management
Strong analytical skills
Commercial approach – able to drive an appropriate level of commercial challenge into all projects ensuring pragmatic benefit.
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to use a range of influencing techniques, building strong working relationships and leading without authority.
Personal agility – ability to ‘turn your hand’ to issues and events as they arise.
Financial accounting qualification
Desirable
Specific Expert knowledge in specialist process area
Knowledge of current and emerging pharmaceutical pricing pressures and approaches
Knowledge of royalty agreements both receivable and payable
Change management and program management experience
AZ knowledge and network
Awareness of current tax and pricing models in AZ
Why we love it
If your passion is science and you want to be part of a team that makes a bigger impact on patients’ lives, then there’s no better place to be. Here we truly understand science and apply it every day to strengthen and grow our pipeline.
So, what’s next?
Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.
Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it’s yours.
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