Bianca Choudhary

Vice President Talent Acquisition, Global Mobility and Strategic Workforce Planning AstraZeneca

Bianca Choudhary is Vice President of Talent Acquisition, Global Mobility & Strategic Workforce Planning at AstraZeneca. Bianca leads global hiring strategy, mobility programmes and workforce planning initiatives to support the company’s growth ambitions. Bianca’s work focuses on aligning talent supply with evolving business needs, embedding skills-based planning, and enabling data-driven workforce decisions in a complex, global pharmaceutical environment.

Seminars

Tuesday 29th September 2026
Interactive Action Lab F: How Can We Make Workforce Planning More Intelligent, Practical & Usable?

Work in small, facilitated peer groups to tackle real problems, compare what’s working in practice, and leave with clear, implementable solutions you can apply immediately.

  • What does a smarter, AI enabled approach to workforce planning look like – one that avoids over engineered models and genuinely helps organisations make decisions?
  • How do you translate complex data into simple, actionable insights that leaders can actually use to make trade-offs?
  • How can workforce planning become a continuous, decision-support discipline rather than a static, annual exercise?
Wednesday 30th September 2026
Discover: How AstraZeneca is Building a Skills‑First Workforce Strategy to Deliver Today’s Capability Needs While Reskilling at Pace for Tomorrow’s AI‑Enabled Operating Model
10:40 am
  • Discover how AstraZeneca is using an AI‑enabled, skills‑ and task‑based methodology to rethink workforce shape, location and cost while directly supporting business strategy
  • Learn how early pilots are testing where automation, agents and external partners can replace or eliminate work, freeing humans to focus on high‑value, “human‑in‑the‑loop” activities
  • Explore how aligning workforce planning with financial planning cycles is helping leaders move from ad‑hoc hiring to deliberate, data‑driven workforce decisions
Wednesday 30th September 2026
Develop: Embedding Skills into Enterprise Strategy & Planning
11:20 am

Take a deeper look at how skills-first thinking integrates into broader workforce and business planning. Explore how to align skills with financial cycles, operational priorities, and long-term capability building to move beyond isolated initiatives.

Interactive Q&A Session Facilitated by the Chair

Bianca Choudhary