AI Program and Product Lead
The Walt Disney Company
Azure
Finance Business Partner – Third-Party Supply, 3PS
AstraZeneca
full-time
Posted on:
Location: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Manage all financial contractual commitments in external supply relationships
- Oversee all financial aspects of the deal/customer, including credit risk and P&L reporting and forecasting
- Proactively solve problems and develop pragmatic solutions to ensure continuity of supply while maintaining customer relationships and protecting AZ rights
- Optimise price/cost/margin/cashflow for AZ, providing guidance for decision support and accounting considerations
- Advise on supply agreement renegotiation, ensuring alignment with 3PS deal principles
- Support Operations Business Development directors at pre-deal to ensure financial terms are aligned with 3PS deal principles
- Act as SME on specific areas, leading improvement initiatives and embracing technology/AI to increase efficiency
- Serve as a key delegate for Lead 3PS FBP across various areas, including minimising the impact of 3PS exits on Global Supply Chain network strategy
Requirements
- Experience managing business collaborations and contract negotiations with external (non-AZ) third parties, demonstrated by establishing multi-year partnerships and resolving complex issues independently
- Proven track record of providing financial guidance in pricing, cashflow, accounting and related matters, with examples of directly influencing business decisions
- Financial Metrics Acumen: instinctive knowledge of business-critical metrics (revenue, COGS, margin, costs) and market dynamics (FX, inflation)
- Hands on experience in manufacturing and supply chain accounting (including areas of technical accounting and tax) across global regions, preferably in the pharmaceutical sector
- Proven ability to manage and influence partners at all levels through strong communication skills (internal/external, cross-function, cross-geography)
- Able to articulate complex situations in a simple way to influence and hold others accountable
- Evidence of drive and quick-thinking approach, proactively identifying and mitigating risks
- Track record of independently owning and regularly resolving high-impact problems end to end
- Ability to deliver accurate work quickly
- Demonstrated experience leading or contributing to lean/process improvement initiatives
- Proficient use of digital/AI tools (eg. MS Co-Pilot, MS Agent Builder, AI Chatbots) resulting in measurable time savings or efficiency gains
- Holds a recognised professional finance/accounting qualification (eg. ACA, CIMA)
- Desirable: Experience of Supply Chain management; product costing, pricing, credit management, transactional finance; business process management & financial controls
