Manager, Business Analysis - Strategic Business Solutions PMO

Thermo Fisher Scientific is committed to making a positive impact on a global scale through science and innovation. They are seeking a Manager of Business Analysis to carry out detailed analysis of strategic opportunities, document recommendations, and contribute to process improvement initiatives within the PMO. The role involves establishing relationships with business users, capturing requirements, and assisting in vendor evaluations.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• 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
• Contract Research Organization (CRO) industry experience is highly preferred