Job Title: Associate Director, RDU IT - Portfolio Performance, Financial Management & Operational Excellence
Introduction to role:
Are you passionate about using data, financial stewardship, and process efficiency to help technology teams deliver greater value for patients and the business?
In the role of Associate Director within RDU IT - Portfolio Performance, Financial Management & Operational Excellence, you will help develop how our IT organization plans its performance. You will also help develop how it measures its performance. You will support continuous performance improvement.
Based in Bangalore and collaborating with a global network of technology leaders, portfolio managers, and business partners, you will play a key role in advancing how we operate IT as a strategic business function. You will guide financial planning and governance, strengthen performance insights, and help build resilient, sustainable ways of working. Your ability to turn data into actionable insights and align strategy with execution will contribute directly to business outcomes and ongoing innovation.




This role offers an opportunity to influence enterprise-wide decisions, partner across diverse teams, and create meaningful impact through operational excellence.
Accountabilities:
Financial Planning & Oversight: Own the MTP process and annual IT budget, establishing solid governance to monitor actuals, accruals, and forecasts; lead all aspects of SOWs and contracts to keep spend aligned to plan and value realized.
Performance Reporting & Analytics: Build scorecards and dashboards on monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles; move the organization from retrospective reporting to predictive insights that improve delivery, cost, and risk outcomes.
Data Governance & Benchmarking: Define and uphold data standards, sources of truth, and external benchmarks; enable consistent measures of maturity and effectiveness to guide investment and improvement.
Operational Excellence & Innovation: Partner

📌 Associate Director, RDU IT (Bengaluru)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Bengaluru