Business Analyst

Understand and prioritize business requirements from multiple stake holders applying specialist knowledge where applicable. Proactively seeks out opportunities to enhance and improve in line with strategic goals.

Interpret business requirements and simplify them for easy analysis, solution design and decision making to positively impact/solve medium risks/issues. Effectively communicate impact, cost and benefits of new and changed demands.

Work with business and IT partners to propose solutions to achieve agreed outcomes, ensuring that solutions meet future strategic needs and challenges. Defining and estimating business cases, producing detailed business justification for investment and benefits realization.

Perform risk assessment and communicate risks mitigation plan effectively with the key stakeholders.

Identify scope creep and adapt change control techniques by closely working with delivery teams and stakeholders.

Work with colleagues across the Organization (e.g., architects and engineers) within the function to identify the capabilities required to ensure outcomes/requirements are clearly understood and can be delivered. Work with Process/Product owners to identify and devise solutions that optimize business process performance, capability, and competitiveness.

Facilitate and lead design sessions with the business and implementation teams to identify functional and technical requirements.

Collate information from relevant sources for analysis and reporting relevant data trends for informed decision making for positive business impact.

Communicate with the relevant stake holders and transfer relevant knowledge to delivery teams, i.e., translation using levels of interactive communication and influencing skills. Contributes to communication plans and change management for project and stakeholders.

Contribute to driving up the performance and productivity of the team, improving ways of working, and bringing in new technology to help the team be more effective.

Essential Skills/Experience

10 years of experience as a Business Analyst

Experience of deploying IT solutions in a pharmaceutical, FMCG, chemical, or other manufacturing environment

Proven experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change

Proven experience of successfully participating in IT projects end to end, both waterfall and agile (Hands on experience with Jira)

Demonstrable experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change

Strong engagement, communication and stake holder management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills

Experience of working in a regulated environment (GxP, SoX)

Presentation, communication & facilitation skills

Customer focus and stake holder management

Ability to navigate complex organizations to find the right expertise to support initiatives

A broad understanding of how IT technology works and is used

As a scrum master

Defining project scope and goals for small projects that deliver or support delivery of effective solutions. Setting a budget and schedule.

Plan and create user stories with defined story points

Manage small projects end to end incorporating scrum events (sprint, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective)