Business Support Coordinator

**Location: Barcelona, Spain (On-site): We require 3 days working from the office and 2 days working from home.**:
At AstraZeneca every one of our employees makes a difference to patient lives. BioPharma Clinical Operations brings together many skills groups to drive critical operational activities for early and late-stage medicine development.

Our function has a shared commitment to collaborate across the enterprise with our collective capabilities in study and site management, data management, technical systems, external vendor management and business processes. Through partnership with Clinical Trial programmes across, our role within Business Support contributes to building strong-cross functional relationships to help accelerate AstraZeneca's portfolio delivery. We provide support to ensure these groups can deliver fast, efficient, ethical and sustainable delivery of our clinical trials. Working within this exciting Clinical Trial community gives this team visibility of how AstraZeneca pushes the boundaries of science in pursuit of helping our patients.

Working as part of a team of Business Support Coordinators specialising in the support of Clinical Trials, you will perform a wide range of project support responsibilities and tasks independently for a selection of these projects. Our objective is to deliver high level and consistent global support, by building a network to support and empower the BSCs with the necessary knowledge and skill set. By acknowledging that change is constant in project and portfolio management, teams are required to adapt quickly to shifting priorities and objectives. Through a range of regular team engagements, workshops and coaching, we ensure our development meets the needs of our customers. We share knowledge to ensure alignment and consistently, along with the ability to assist with leaner ways of working to improve the execution of medicines to patients.

**Your accountabilities**:

- Provide support to cross-functional Clinical Project Teams, enabling them to function efficiently in drug development to meet AZ portfolio milestones
- Responsible for information management to ensure projects teams are always inspection ready and in line with AZ policies
- Work collaboratively with CPT (Clinical Project Team) Business Support colleagues to deliver an aligned, lean and professional global support service, including knowledge sharing
- Implement lean and agile ways of working to create an efficient partnership with the Clinical Project Teams
- Utilise multiple MS Office technology platforms to execute daily tasks and precise project tasks
- Ability to independently follow up action items from meetings
- Multi-task across allocated project teams
- Ability to forecast support required around project milestones and plan support of all other projects accordingly
- Plan, organise and schedule own workload, so that all activities are completed accurately and on time while using and developing best practices
- Establish a basic understanding of drug project processes and timelines through induction and in role experience
- Diplomacy in maintaining boundaries with in-scope administrative tasks
- Assessing the requirements of the CPT in relation to timeline of study and prioritising tasks
- Curiosity surrounding in-house platforms used to support Clinical Data and Trial timelines

**Essential Skills/Experience**:

- Excellent knowledge of spoken and written English language
- Experience in working in a cross functional global environment
- Significant administrative or related experience
- Effective communication and networking skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Strong customer service skills
- A high degree of professionalism when interfacing with organizations internal and external to AZ
- Experience working in a fast-paced global environment

**Desirable Skills/Experience**:

- Information Management experience
- Experience of working in a pharma or healthcare environment
- Experience managing SharePoint sites including creating and managing permission groups, creating new sites, and adding design elements
- Previous experience working with drug project teams
- Experience of working with Microsoft Projects and Microsoft Planner

At AstraZeneca, we follow the science to explore and innovate. We are committed to making a difference by fusing data and technology with the latest scientific innovations to achieve the next wave of breakthroughs. We offer an inclusive environment where we work seamlessly as one, uniting the best from academia, biotechs and the industry. If you have a passion for science and want to be part of a team that makes a bigger impact on patients' lives, then there's no better place to be.