Associate Director, Digital Program Lead

ABOUT THE ROLE

The GFS Digital Strategy & Innovation Program Lead plays a pivotal role in shaping and delivering the global digital innovation agenda for GFS. Partnering with the GFS Strategy & Innovation Director, this role identifies, assesses, and structures high-quality business cases for digital transformation initiatives across all regions. 

The Program Lead ensures opportunities are rigorously evaluated, benefits accurately quantified, and proposals robustly aligned with strategic priorities and operational realities. By driving effective intake, prioritization, and delivery, the role enables sustainable, measurable transformation across global finance hubs, regional markets, and enterprise-wide finance pillars. 

Typical accountabilities

Business Case Development & Strategic Partnership

• Partner with the GFS Digital Strategy & Innovation Director to develop, refine, and validate global business cases for finance innovation and transformation. 

• Drive opportunity identification, prioritization, and structured assessment of automation, integration, simplification, and transformation initiatives. 

• Lead the conversion of strategic opportunities into clear investment proposals with defined rationale, KPIs, benefits, risks, and financial returns. 

Portfolio & Value Management

• Maintain a global innovation backlog and portfolio of initiatives, ensuring optimal sequencing, scalability, and management of interdependencies.  Evaluate feasibility and alignment of new initiatives to global objectives, confirm readiness for execution, and coordinate handover to the Digital Delivery Lead for implementation. 

• Evaluate feasibility and alignment of new initiatives to global objectives, ensuring readiness for execution. 

Stakeholder Engagement & Alignment

• Build strong relationships with Finance, business teams, operations teams, IT teams, and other cross-functional groups across all regions. 

• Engage with process owners, Embedded Finance, Digital Delivery, GPOs, and GPDDs and impacted functions end to end to align and socialize business cases. 

• Facilitate cross-regional workshops, steering forums, and alignment sessions to secure sponsorship and consensus for high-priority opportunities. 

Technology & Digital Enablement

• Collaborate with Enterprise IT, IT Business Partners, and Ignite to ensure solutions are feasible, scalable, and impactful across regions. 

• Promote the adoption of digital enablers such as automation, process mining, and low-code platforms as part of Lean and Digital programs. 

Digital Governance & Operating Model

• Partner with the governance lead to develop and apply global digital governance frameworks, ensuring alignment with enterprise policies for risk, compliance, and data protection. 

• Ensure consistent criteria, prioritization, and execution readiness standards are applied across all proposals. 

End-to-End & Scalable Program Design

• Lead the design and replication of successful use cases across global markets, ensuring integration, scalability, and measurable business value. 

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, emphasizing enterprise-wide transformation over siloed or tactical fixes. 

Communications & Change Leadership

• Communicate strategy, business cases, and transformation outcomes to global senior leadership and wider finance teams. 

• Drive engagement through showcases, innovation roadmaps, and communities of practice that encourage adoption and knowledge sharing. 

Skills, Experience, Education

Essential:

• Proven success in developing and validating business cases for digital /finance transformation  

• Strong finance expertise, particularly in controlling, accounting, and FP&A with sufficient understanding of end-to-end finance processes. 

• Strong analytical skills in quantifying business value, ROI, and risk. 

• Capability to act as an insights partner, translating data into actionable recommendations for strategic and operational decisions. 

• Experience managing innovation portfolios and interdependent initiatives across multiple geographies. 

• Demonstrated stakeholder engagement skills, including cross-functional collaboration with Finance, business, operations, IT, and enterprise-wide teams. 

Desirable:

• Finance qualification  

• Experience in data-driven insights generation, including the use of BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Microstrategy, Celonis & etc) for financial and operational decision support. 

• Can translate finance into tech terms — explains financial and operational concepts in ways technology teams can understand. 

What we offer

Welcome to Warsaw Site, one of over 400 sites here at AstraZeneca, providing a collaborative environment where everyone feels comfortable and able to be themselves is at the core of AstraZeneca’s priorities, it’s important to us that you bring your full self to work every day.

To help you maintain your best self, here’s a sneak peek into some of the things this site provides for you:

• The best team to support you
• Multisport card
• Pension plan
• Life insurance
• After-work events
• Private medical care
• Lunch card
• Bright and spacious environment
• Sustainable office working environment.

Please note that we are working in a hybrid model of 3 days per week from the office in Warsaw

Date Posted

08-wrz-2025

Closing Date

21-wrz-2025

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.

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 authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.