Manager, Business Analysis – Strategic Business Solutions PMO

Role Overview

• Carries out detailed and occasionally complex analysis of strategic opportunities and cost savings initiatives.
• Documents and communicates recommendations to stakeholders to support key decision making.
• Key contributor to vendor or IT system requirements and designs process improvement initiatives.
• May conduct peer reviews of work to ensure quality standards are met.
• Participates in PMO best practices definition and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Establishes relationships with business users, understand their business processes and problem areas.
• Develops visual representations of As-Is and To-Be scenarios to aid communication with both the business and senior management, with the view to optimize processes and automate where possible.
• Be able to quantify the work involved, identify the key stakeholders, and calculate the potential benefits for senior management consideration.
• Captures accurate, detailed, and comprehensive requirements from a wide range of business users.
• Documents and categorizes requirements in a manner that is understandable to the business, developers, and testing teams.
• Contributes to requirements planning and assessing level of effort.
• May assist with technical feasibility discussions, prototype development, and the design of efficient, adaptable and scalable solutions.
• Identifies specific proof of concepts that can be engineered to assist with the understanding of effort required for a full implementation.
• Assists in the evaluation of vendor/IT proposals and the identification of gaps to facilitate good decision making within the business.
• Assists PMO and business leadership in understanding complex initiatives and solutions.
• Works with the wider PMO team to identify improvements to practices for potential adoption by the group.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 7+ years).
• 3+ years of senior business analysis role
• Proven business analysis skills.
• Contract Research Organization (CRO) industry experience is highly preferred.
• Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Skilled in process improvement and strategic development, especially as it applies to clinical trials, clinical development and project management
• Technical and systems competency, such as computer skills, to include effective use of systems and applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams; requirements management systems a plus (JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar)
• Proven flexibility and ability to effectively prioritize workload with the support of leadership
• Good judgment, decision making and problem-solving skills with ability to apply critical and analytical strategic thinking skills to assess complex/ambiguous situations.
• Proactive, solutions oriented and experienced at risk identification.

Tech Stack

• Azure

Benefits

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan
• A wellness program, and valuable health incentive opportunities for company contributions to a Health Reimbursement Accounts (HSAs) or Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Tax-advantaged savings and spending accounts and commuter benefits
• Employee assistance programs
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO). 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, short
• and long-term disability, and volunteer time off in accordance with company policy.
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan