Business Analyst Senior

Business Analyst Senior

Location: Waltham, MA

Contract Duration: 12+ Month Contract

Work Arrangement: 100% onsite

Note: We are not looking for an IT focused candidate; it is more facilities/management focused.

Job Description

Leads small projects or supports large projects/programs. The individual has a working knowledge of project management methodologies, tools and templates and contributes to the development and maintenance of work products or change programs. They ensure that business requirements are effectively captured and are responsible for effective tracking and reporting of project management information and highlighting and supporting resolution of areas of risk in project delivery.

The Senior Project Analyst is expected to perform at Capable level in the following:

1. Business Needs Identification: Operates at a functional level in assessing and defining business need and areas for improvement. Proactively seeks out opportunities to enhance and improve in line with strategic goals, proposing potential solutions through research.
2. Business Analysis Planning: Selects the appropriate analysis approach to a piece of work depending on its complexity, level of risk, known assumptions, constraints, and dependencies. Proficient in scoping and recommending appropriate approaches. Capable of planning and managing their own activities to meet deliverables and deadlines.
3. Stakeholder Analysis & Change: Effectively identifies stakeholders and builds and maintains relationships according to individual stakeholder needs and levels of influence. Contributes to communication plans and change management for project and stakeholders.
4. Requirements Analysis and Design Definition: Responsible for requirements management plans including elicitation, approvals, processes, RAID and scope impacts.
5. Business Case and Benefits Management: Supports the business case definition, capturing business justification for investment and benefits realization.
6. Solution Evaluation: Analyzes and assesses solution proposals and able to articulate supporting reasoning, i.e., assessing business readiness, maximizing value vs. spend.

Primary Responsibilities

1. Build business cases in support of key decisions, and assist in the development of supporting documentation.
2. Diagnose issues, prioritize and escalate when needed.
3. Recognize areas for improvement and develop plans to implement.
4. Identify potential risks and mitigants.
5. Elicit and document project requirements in a variety of formats.
6. Schedule, facilitate, and take minutes of meetings with workstream leads.
7. Document and track project decisions and tasks.
8. Create and maintain project timelines.
9. Clear roadblocks to allow the project team to work efficiently and effectively.
10. Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional Responsibilities

1. Ensures that all work is carried out with regards to AstraZeneca standards and external regulations.
2. Ensures efficient and effective management of project information, quality of data, and integrity of information supplied.
3. Works within the governance structure of the KSQ program.

Essential Qualifications

1. Experience of using business analysis tools/techniques to design and deliver business change.
2. Strong engagement, communication, and facilitation skills, including presentation and influencing skills.
3. Experience of working in a regulated environment.
4. Experience of working with third-party suppliers/vendors.
5. Evidence of excellent communication skills and building excellent relationships internally and externally.
6. Business acumen.
7. Customer Focus.
8. Stakeholder Management.
9. Business Process Management.
10. Requirements Management.
11. Office presence required in both Waltham and Cambridge.

Desirable Qualifications

1. Degree in relevant discipline or formal certification in business analysis practice.
2. Exposure to Agile Methodology.
3. Experience of working in a global organization.
4. Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge.
5. Experience of working in the Greater Boston area, ideally in Kendall Square.