JOB DESCRIPTION: Senior Business Analyst IT
Our client is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
You’ll also have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .
- Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
- Primary liaison between the IT and business area in manufacturing and supply chain domain.
- Analyzes business processes; elicits, analyzes, and documents business requirements; identifies alternative solutions, assesses feasibility, and makes recommendations that are best for the company overall.
- Works directly with internal clients and applies IT and business knowledge and experience to develop and understand the business case and business requirements to solve for technology related business problems.
- Translates business requirements for system changes into functional requirements; performs data and process modeling; manages change.
- Leads and coordinates testing; Prepares testing plans to confirm that requirements and system design are accurate and complete, performs verification, and user acceptance.
- Leads department level initiatives and provides assistance to Program or Project managers on phases of a larger project.
- Perform project management activities including maintenance of project schedules to ensure tasks are completed within scheduled timeframe.
- Provides system support to end users and administrators to resolve business and technical problems.
- Identifies trends and recommends proactive solutions to recurring issues.
- Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
- Performs work using existing standards, methodologies and processes and understands other systems/business processes relationship to each other.
- Partners with Corporate service providers and IT partners to investigate alternatives, which use existing applications.
- Identifies, proposes, initiates, and leads implementation of process improvements. Makes recommendations to process stakeholders regarding the correct approach to achieve process improvement objectives
- Maintains productive relationships with peers and management in IT and the business function to ensure effective communication and appropriate status awareness.
- Serves as a source of information to the IT organizations on the business drivers, processes, and organization structure.
- Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.
- Ability to travel approximately 10%, including internationally.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent years of experience
- 5-7 years of experience in IT business analysis in regulated manufacturing environment
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Solid experience with Software Life Cycle (SLC) based on Waterfall and Agile methodology
- Ability to drive requirements and project work through to closure
- Strong interdisciplinary, excellent intercultural influence, and networking skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- 5-7 years’ experience with ERP systems (JDE, SAP and others)
- 2-4 years’ experience with MES (Manufacturing Execution System) Systems highly preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in a Business Information discipline or equivalent experience
- 2 years of manufacturing / shop floor knowledge / experience
- 2 years of experience with Supply Chain support to business
- 4 years of experience in Software Life Cycle and documentation
- 5 Years of experience in working in an IT environment independently and in teams.