Senior Manager- IT Compliance

Are you ready to safeguard the global flow of life-changing medicines by embedding export control and sanctions compliance across our digital ecosystem!

In this senior role, you will own the IT collaborate with global and local compliance partners to ensure our technology, data, and services meet export control and sanctions requirements. Your work will directly protect our license to operate and support reliable supply, connecting meticulous compliance with the practical realities of delivering medicines to patients.

You will set the direction for how export control regulations are scoped, enabled, and operationalized for IT systems. Working across regions and teams, you will coordinate closely with a specialist third‑party classification provider and internal compliance collaborators to deliver clear, auditable outcomes that stand up to scrutiny and accelerate the right decisions.

• Apply export control regulations, sanctions, and related requirements to IT systems, data flows, and services, ensuring alignment to international trade laws in a quality management context and protecting our ability to deliver globally.
• Own and handle the relationship with Global and Local Compliance as the main point of contact for export controls and sanctions matters related to IT.
• Scope and initiate export control assessments for applications, cloud platforms, and data stores; assemble system and data inventories; map data flows.
• Coordinate with the delegated third party to acquire export control classifications and assessment outputs; ensure completeness and accuracy of system facts (functionality, encryption, hosting, user populations).
• Provide compliance input and evidence for internal management reviews, and support external regulatory and internal inspections with audit‑ready documentation and governance.
• Drive continuous monitoring, improvement, and digitisation of processes, services, and tools by applying Lean thinking and automation to increase speed, reliability, and clarity.
• Apply specialist knowledge to shape the strategy for handling compliance activities, balancing risk with pragmatism to enable innovation without compromising on control.
• Advise and educate IT product teams and business collaborators to optimally integrate compliance requirements into all stages of the IT lifecycle, building a strong compliance culture.
• Operate throughout various regions and functions to build consistent, scalable approaches that work in complex, fast paced environments and support a diverse collaborator community.
• Make timely, evidence‑based decisions in complex, time‑critical situations, stabilising strategic and tactical compliance requirements to maintain momentum on critical initiatives.

• BA, BS in Computer or Life Sciences, Information Technology or equivalent
• 15+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry regulatory requirements including export control regulations, professional certification a plus.
• Demonstrable experience performing IT-focused export control assessments across applications, cloud platforms, and data flows; familiarity with SaaS, IaaS/PaaS, and cross-border data transfer considerations
• Familiarity with GxP, data privacy (GDPR), and information security controls and how they intersect with export controls.
• Experience working with third-party classification providers and managing vendor-supplied classifications.
• Knowledge and experience of working with/providing regulatory support including computerised system validation/assurance activities.
• Knowledge and experience of working with industry good practice and standards such as ISO 9000, ISO 27002, CMMI, GAMP, GxP, ITIL, S404 Sarbanes-Oxley
• Experience of operating at senior levels including leading and managing global teams, operating across business functions and geographies
• Good communication, influencing and relationship building skills, capable of interpreting and discussing technical IT terms with a non-technical business audience
• Ability to make pragmatic decisions by analysing highly complex/time-critical situations, assessing risks and stabilising strategic and tactical compliance/quality requirements
• Excellent documentation, governance, and audit readiness discipline.

Join a community passionate about high standards that treats every compliance decision with the care we would give to medicines for our own families. Here, science and evidence guide bold, practical solutions; unexpected teams come together to unlock ideas; and digital and Lean thinking are actively used to raise reliability and speed. You will build how sophisticated technologies are governed across a rich, growing pipeline, working with colleagues who value patience alongside ambition and who take personal accountability for outcomes that directly benefit patients worldwide.

Step forward to lead how we operationalise export control compliance across our digital world and help keep vital medicines moving safely across borders—your expertise will make a measurable difference for patients and our business today!

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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.