# Business Support Coordinator

**Company**: TM Hematology - Strategy, Operations, and Business Improvement
**Location**: Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This Senior Business Support Coordinator role provides advanced business, operational, and communications support to Hematology R&D Translational Medicine (TM) leadership. Reporting to the Director of TM Strategy & Business Improvement, the role operates with significant autonomy, judgment, and discretion, enabling effective leadership engagement, operational execution, and organisational alignment across a dynamic, global environment.

The duties of this position include providing high-level, proactive business support to TM leadership, exercising sound judgment to resolve scheduling conflicts, coordinating domestic and international travel, preparing high-quality presentations, reports, briefing materials, and documents under tight timelines, planning, coordinating, and supporting leadership meetings, advising leaders on meeting structure, flow, and logistics, supporting cross-functional interactions with Business Planning & Operations, Communications, Finance, HR, and other R&D support partners, drafting, editing, and coordinating internal communications on behalf of TM leadership, serving as a trusted point of contact to help connect people, information, and activities across the TM organisation, providing business and operational support for Translational Medicine by coordinating vendor contracts, maintaining and managing information across key systems, applying strong knowledge of AstraZeneca processes, policies, and systems to drive efficient execution, leading or supporting special projects focused on operational excellence, communications, or business improvement initiatives, and providing back-up support, knowledge sharing, and contributing to the development of best practices and standard ways of working.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5+ years of progressively responsible administrative or business support experience, ideally supporting senior leaders, advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, maintain confidentiality, and meet tight deadlines, demonstrated ability to work independently, anticipate needs, and apply sound judgment, experience working in fast-paced, matrixed environments with evolving priorities, and experience supporting global organisations across multiple time zones, prior experience in a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or R&D environment, experience supporting communications, engagement initiatives, or leadership events, and exposure to vendor coordination, contract tracking, or operational support activities.

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
- Communication
- Organisation
- Time management
- Problem-solving
- Vendor coordination
- Contract tracking
- Operational support

### Nice to have
- Pharmaceutical industry experience
- Biotechnology industry experience
- R&D experience
- Communications experience
- Engagement experience
- Leadership experience

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