Join to apply for the Associate Procurement Manager (HR Categories) Career 2.0 Program role at AstraZeneca

Career 2.0 at AstraZeneca Poland — Reignite Your Career

Whether you’re ready for a fresh chapter or looking to redirect your path, Career 2.0 offers a supportive, 12‑month pathway to step forward with confidence. This programme is designed for experienced professionals who want to refresh their skills, share their perspective, and explore a new function in a science‑driven organisation. It’s a learning experience first and foremost‑an opportunity to rebuild momentum, reconnect with your strengths, and shape your next chapter.

At AstraZeneca, we value the maturity, judgment, and life experience you’ve earned. United by our purpose to push the boundaries of science to deliver life‑changing medicines, we welcome diverse careers and nonlinear journeys. You don’t need to know our industry or have done this role before. We’ll teach you the function. Bring your business acumen, and the skills that help you learn fast and work well with others, and we’ll give you space to apply them at scale. Participation does not guarantee employment after completion.

Role

Career 2.0 - Associate Procurement Manager (HR Categories). Join our Global Source to Contract Excellence (GSCE) team in Poland and pivot your expertise into Procurement. If you excel at negotiation, stakeholder management, project delivery, and turning data into decisions, this is a structured path to apply your experience at enterprise scale. You will work on global HR categories with a strong technology component (e.g., Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, Temporary Resources, Benefits, Learning Technology), shaping sourcing strategies and supplier partnerships to deliver lasting value. The role focuses on Global/EMEA HR categories with high IT/technology elements, partnering closely with Global and Regional Category Teams.

Skills over titles

We’re looking for strong skills, similar or adjacent experience, and proven business acumen—not an identical role history. If you have led complex processes, influenced commercial outcomes, and delivered results in comparable environments, we encourage you to apply.

What you will do

• Manage day‑to‑day sourcing and contracting
• Run structured evaluations
• Coordinate cross‑functional input
• Drive decisions to contract signature—supporting Global Procurement and the business to deliver broader value and enable discovery of innovative medicines

Essential Experience

• Significant professional experience (typically 15+ years)
• Excellent business partnering and stakeholder management
• End‑to‑end process delivery: scoping, planning, structured comparisons/evaluations, cross‑functional coordination, decision and contract execution
• Strong negotiation and influencing with suppliers/partners or enterprise customers, including commercial terms, SLAs, and risk
• Experience drafting/reviewing/negotiating commercial agreements; clear understanding of contract lifecycle and commercial levers
• Project and time management; ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams
• Analytical and financial acumen: benchmarking, proposal comparison, pricing model interpretation, concise qualitative/quantitative summaries
• Excellent English (min. C1); Polish not required
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word
• Positive, proactive, can‑do approach

Desirable

• Experience in HR or IT/SaaS commercial roles (enterprise sales, customer success, partner/channel, commercial operations) or consulting focused on HR/IT
• Background in complex, matrix, global organisations and/or highly regulated industries
• Regional market insight (in‑market/regional experience)
• Additional languages (min. B2): French, German, Italian and/or Spanish

Ready to rejuvenate, renew, and diversify your career?

Join Career 2.0 and help us improve lives.

Closing Date

18-lis-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.