Why choose AstraZeneca India?
Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare.
The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Tech innovators
Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.
Ownership takers
If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.
Challenge seekers
Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.
Proactive collaborators
Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.
Responsibilities
GCL: D2Introduction to role:
Are you ready to turn complex, cross-functional processes into streamlined, scalable solutions that free our business to focus on delivering life-changing medicines? In this permanent role based in Chennai, you will shape an impactful pipeline of process re-engineering initiatives that unlock measurable value. You will work at the intersection of operations, data, and technology, helping teams simplify how work gets done and driving faster improvements for patients and customers!
You will partner closely with leaders across functions, applying process mining, automation, and low-code platforms as tools to diagnose difficulties and implement pragmatic improvements. By building trusted relationships and challenging the status quo, you will translate business challenges into practical solutions that deliver at pace. Can you see yourself leading end-to-end simplification efforts and bringing clarity to complex operating environments?
Accountabilities:
Collaborator Partnership: Build positive relationships with senior and operational partners, acting as a trusted thought partner who challenges current methods and aligns teams around clear improvement goals.
Opportunity Shaping: Generate, assess, and prioritise a pipeline of process optimisation and analytics opportunities across diverse customer groups, ensuring focus on initiatives with the highest business impact.
End-to-End Re-engineering: Lead discovery, diagnosis, and redesign of complex, multi-function processes, applying Lean and Six Sigma methods to simplify workflows and improve outcomes.
Automation and Process Mining Assessment: Evaluate and define the scope for automation and process mining, selecting appropriate technologies such as AI, intelligent automation, RPA, and low-code platforms to solve real business problems.
Case and Value Realisation: Quantify benefits, costs, and risks; build robust cases; and ensure benefits are tracked, reported, and sustained post-implementation.
Change Leadership: Orchestrate change management activities that prepare teams for transition to launch, drive adoption, and embed new ways of working across functions.
Workshop Facilitation: Design and run process discovery workshops with team members at all levels, creating shared understanding and momentum for change.
Project Delivery at Pace: Lead medium to large projects independently or in collaboration with peer experts, balancing multiple initiatives and delivering to agreed timelines and quality.
Standards and Compliance: Apply BPMN 2.0 for process mapping; ensure solutions follow internal standards, governance, and ethical practices while supporting virtual, global collaboration.
Ways of Working: Contribute to an energised, in-person culture by engaging on site on average at least three days per week, employing face-to-face collaboration to accelerate decisions and outcomes.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Six Sigma or Lean Management Green Belt certified alongside validated experience in the analysis & re-design of complex, multi-function business processes
- Proven background in delivering end-to-end process re-engineering, optimisation and automation projects, with measurable business outcomes.
- Hands-on experience assessing use cases for automation solutions using technologies such as AI, intelligent automation, RPA, Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, workflow and low-code platforms.
- Consulting experience that goes beyond operational delivery, acting as a trusted thought partner to business leaders by, challenging existing ways of working, translating business challenges into practical AI/Automation opportunities that deliver measurable business value
- Demonstrated experience in leading medium to large profile projects/ organisational change activities
- Facilitating process discovery workshops across various stakeholder levels
- Hands-on Process Mapping experience (no specific tool) using BPMN 2.0
- Experience in improving service processes going through different functions across organization
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing & presentation/ oral communication skills
- Energetic and self-motivated
- Strong analytical skills to be able to discover and interpret business requirements
- Critical thinking skills enabling challenging process findings and solutions
- Strong time management skills with ability to work at pace, handling multiple tasks & projects at one time
- Comfortable with working virtually in a global environment
- Willingness to undertake some domestic/ international travel (as required)
- Fluency in English
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Experience in participating in service transition projects
- Significant experience with various related BPM capabilities i.e. AI, Process/Task Mining, Robotics Process Automation, Low Code automation, BPM, workflow tools.
- Experience and proven results in change implementation projects within the Pharma industry
- Experience in working in Agile methodology
- Experience in working with Business Information Centre tool by GBTEC
- Experience in working globally
Why AstraZeneca:
Join a high-performing, digitally savvy team where ambitious thinking is encouraged and supported. We bring unexpected teams into the same room to fuel bold ideas, use ground breaking technologies to modernise how work happens, and connect daily effort to real outcomes for patients. Here, you will influence how a global enterprise operates, run fast on agile projects, and take balanced risks with the backing of collaborative colleagues. We value patience alongside ambition, pairing curiosity with rigor so that smart ideas turn into scalable, ethical solutions that move the business forward.
Call to Action:
If you’re ready to simplify the complex, elevate performance, and see your ideas make a tangible difference, step forward and shape what’s next!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Date Posted
08-Sept-2026Closing Date
27-Sept-2026AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
Lifelong learning
Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.
Autonomy and reward
Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package.
Health and wellbeing
An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.
Inclusion and diversity
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.
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