Senior Admin Business Development

Job Title: Senior Admin Business Development

Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland

Duration: Full time

Responsibilities:

As Senior Admin Business Development Associate, you will need to have extensive experience working within a large global organization and considerable experience working with internal senior team members.

This role will provide direct support to the Global Head of Business Development, Oncology R&D at AstraZeneca.

The Business Development function is responsible for proactively scouting and transacting external innovation to augment AstraZeneca Oncology R&D.

As a key team member, you will lead organization of strategic business development and partnering events, manage and set up complex meetings for the Global Head and senior team members across multiple time zones for key AstraZeneca partners and leadership team members.

This role has a high job complexity within a fast paced environment and one ought to have a high level of independence and forward thinking approach to meet requirements outlined above with minimal supervision.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Provide direct support to Global Head of Business Development, Oncology R&D with heavy complex calendar management

Support Client meetings and activities around key strategic Client partnering meetings and external conferences and speaking opportunities.

Support Client meetings and activities around key strategic annual oncology conferences/congresses.

Demonstration of the ability to respond to complex requests on behalf of senior Team members and customers and work autonomously with little or no day-to-day direction

required.

Collation, distribution and storage of meeting materials such as pre-reads & final slide decks ensuring consistency in document format, file naming conventions and archives.

Ability to manage and maintain key confidential information in an appropriate manner. Work with key partners and cross-functional teams to ensure effective scheduling of

meetings to support completion of high-value, strategic transactions in a timely manner,

including senior AstraZeneca Leadership Team partners and often at last-minute.

Congress tracking co-ordination and registration across the SBDA team

Managing and creating purchase orders

Co-ordinating small projects under general guidance ensuring delivery according to plan Travel booking

As a member of the administrative support community, responsible for providing back-up support and other assistance to other administrative staff, including training, and for contributing actively to the on-going development and implementation of shared practices

Other ad hoc requests in accordance with business needs across SBDA

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

5 plus years of administration experience supporting high level leaders

HS Diploma required, Bachelor's degree preferred

Extensive experience in dealing with senior internal partners

Experience in building successful internal/external partnership and collaborative relationships.

Ability to think critically, creatively and to anticipate and solve problems.

Flexibility to readily adapt to changing business needs or project-specific requirements.

Strong teammate who can work collaboratively

Excellent communication skills in oral and written English

Experience working with culturally diverse teams in a global context