Assoc Dir Business Analysis

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Summarized Purpose:
Leads detailed and complex analysis of strategic opportunities and cost savings initiatives. Communicates recommendations to executive management and supports key decision making. Leads vendor or IT system requirements and design process improvement initiatives. May provide direction for junior staff and conduct peer reviews of work to ensure quality standards are met. Participates in PMO best practices definition and continuous improvement initiatives.

s through effective strategies and clear communication to all stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Builds relationships with business users, understand their business processes and problem areas.

• Develops visual representations of As-Is and To-Be scenarios to assist with 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.

• Guides business management in terms of possible phasing of work to ensure that delivery to production is achieved and roadmaps are in place for future phases.

• Gathers 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, testing teams.

• Responsible for requirements planning and assessing level of effort.

• Defines engagement with vendors/IT to ensure that requirements and deliverables are understood by both the vendor/IT and the business stakeholders.

• Contributes to 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.

• Critiques vendor/IT proposals and identifies gaps to facilitate good decision making within the business.

• Plays a key role in vendor engagement and overall relationship management.

• Provides leadership for project teams during large and complex requirements gathering.

• Assists IT and business leadership in understanding complex initiatives and solutions.

• Works with the wider PMO team to identify improvements or better practices that can be adopted by the group.

Requirements:

Education and Experience:

• 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 10+ years).

• 5+ years of senior business analysis role

• Proven business analysis and vendor relationship skills

​In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience with Lean Six Sigma, Agile and Scrum methodologies

• Familiar with formal change management processes and methods (Prosci or similar approach)

• 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

• Demonstrated interpersonal skills including the ability to guide, motivate and coordinate cross-functional project teams

• 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, TopTeam or similar)

• Proven flexibility and ability to effectively prioritize workload with the support of leadership

• Ability to coach and mentor cross-functional teams with a cultural awareness

• Excellent judgment, decision making and problem-solving skills and proven ability to apply critical and analytical strategic thinking skills to manage complex/ambiguous situations

• Proactive, solutions oriented and skilled at risk identification and management