Job purpose
AstraZeneca’s 2030 strategy is driven by its bold ambition to pioneer scientific innovation, lead in key disease areas,
and transform outcomes for patients worldwide. By 2030, the company aims to deliver new medicines, achieve
industry-leading growth, and set new standards for sustainability by becoming carbon negative. Positioned as a
leader in leveraging technology, data, and artificial intelligence, AstraZeneca strives to advance healthcare and
create exponential value for both patients and society. The Customer Experience & IT leads the way in shaping
Japan’s business and technology landscape, driving impactful contributions to our business success.
In line with the business divisions’ objectives, the role holder will
• To maximize the business value of AZ/AZKK, act as a global and local Customer Experience & IT initiative by
ensuring effective alignment of CRM with business requirements by OBU & Medical and achieving sustainable
operations through AZ IT standard operation methodology.
• Serve as focal point for the Oncology BU and Medical departments for all IT needs, partnering to understand and
anticipate strategic, market and/or operational needs, and translate those needs into effective and/or improved
processes and/or technical solutions in collaboration with the associated IT department/groups.
• Maintain accountability for manage operational implementation of CRM platforms and IT products aligned with
Commercial and Medical business strategies. Responsibilities include all aspects of portfolio implementation
planning, platform and product roadmaps, end to end technical implementation and production support services. This
platform is widely used for mainly Sales reps/MSLs.
Role and Responsibilities
• Maximize the business value through CRM strategy, platform, and sustainable operations.
➢ Accountable for the IT projects /IT system operations in all aspects in terms of system life cycle management, ensuring that
Service Management processes are in scope, i.e. Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Service
Level Management, Configuration Management. Major scopes are commercial systems.
➢ Support Future CRM projects from the perspective of existing systems in collaboration with the CRM platform Lead
➢ For enhancing the accountable IT systems or new business requirements, lead the IT planning process, ensuring sound business
cases, analyzing key business requirements that support, improve and/or transform business operations and strategy.
➢ Develop service transition plans to ensure that delivered solutions are sustainable under the production environment, including
controlled hand-over into operational support responsible.
➢ Initiate, lead, and support IT projects and their delivery in accordance with project goals, time scales and costs.
➢ Ensure that the team adheres to all standards under the AZ global IT Policies/Guidelines including ADF, SOP, quality, and
compliance, as well as processes, defined technical capabilities, and best practices.
• Platform Management:
➢ Oversee the day-to-day operations of the CRM platform (Veeva CRM / Salesforce platform) include Veeva Vault for
commercial BU and Medical, ensuring its availability, performance, and reliability.
➢ Implement standard methodologies for platform maintenance and optimization.
➢ Collaborate with business units to understand their needs and requirements.
➢ Ensure adherence to best practices in platform development and customization.
➢ Manage and document changes to the platform, ensuring that changes are properly tested and do not disrupt ongoing
operations.
➢ Implement and carry out organizational change processes and policies.
➢ Make roadmap and implement.
• Vendor Management:
➢ Maintain vendor engagement ownership in managing platform vendor strategies, roadmaps aligning to Commercial IT
business needs
➢ Maintain accountability for party supplier performance and ensure impact assessments drive improved performance
outcomes from external delivery sources.
Education, Qualifications and Experiences
• Graduate degree and relevant work experience in computer science or similar.
• 10 years+ experience in a similar or related role with a proven track record of delivering results and making the connections
between technology and business benefit/value.
• Proven experience of IT projects, Deployment, Operation & Maintenance relevant to commercial systems of the global companies.
• Deploying business analysis techniques to enable business change, or complex systems operations.
• Experience of business demand intake, selection solution, implementing the solution and run the platform with continuous Kaizen.
• CRM experience of manage and development
• Extensive hands-on experience with Veeva CRM and Veeva Vault in large-scale implementations.
• Expertise in designing advanced custom solutions and new capabilities on the Salesforce platform
• Expertise in Web and Mobile Application Engineering
• Project management experience with internal IT, business stakeholders and external vendors.
• Strong engagement, communication, and stakeholder management skills, including excellent presentation.
• Native or Business level Japanese
• Business level English (meeting facilitation level)
• Having growth mindset, good team player and appreciate Diversity and inclusion.
Preferred Skills and Capabilities
• Fundamental knowledge of Budgetary Control, Activity Planning/Control, based on their mechanism as well as the knowledge of
commercial businesses.
• Business acumen, Business process management, Customer focus, Stakeholder management
• Experience with other cloud-based services
• Ability to work well in a team and cross-functional environment, as well as work independently with limited supervision.
• Ability to work successfully under pressure in a fast-paced environment and with tight timelines.
• ITIL certification
• Veeva CRM and/or Veeva Vault certification
• Salesforce Platform Certified
Key Relationships to reach solutions
• All levels from Sales Management to MRs/MSLs in the Business Unites & Medical, IBE Department, Global Process Owners,
Program Managers of Global Commercial IT, Local CET Groups
Location
Osaka or Tokyo
Career Level
E
Date Posted
18-6月-2026Closing Date
AstraZeneca 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.
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