Job Description
Job Title : SeniorBusiness Analyst
Contract - Boston metropolitan (Hybrid) Ideally
Data Experience is must,
Pharmaceuticals experience required
AI/ML experience preferred.
Purpose of the Position:
- Participate in Requirement Gathering, Manage the process of turning these requirements into desired outputs
- Coordinating the work of business, IT, and external teams to deliver the required results
- Perform Feasibility and Impact Assessment
- Documentation Review, ensuring that work produced by the teams conform to methods, designs, and standards so that economies of scale can be achieved during the support phase.
- Be a party to all Stakeholder Communication
- Perform and review Primary and Secondary Research based on solution and project needs
- Support new solution design and other organizational initiatives
- Work in a multi-disciplinary team environment, collaborate with all stakeholders and work toward consensus building while working on various data and analytics projects
Key Result Areas and Activities:
- Requirements & Design:
- Help development team with structure & usability of dashboards (e.g. user friendliness, clear definitions)
- Help with specific drill-downs / dashboard functionality (optimize for user experience)
- Develop wire-frames and mock-ups based on new user requirements
- Help facilitate design sessions with field champion team to develop requirements
- Translate business requirements into high level functional requirements (user stories)
- Define acceptance criteria for each user story and ensure all intake requirements are met
- Work with business stakeholders to prioritize backlog enhancements based on business value, effort and need by date.
- Facilitate requirement refinement sessions with data architects, reporting team, SME, and data owners.
KPI Definitions and Business Rules
- Maintain field KPI definitions and test for accuracy via pulls from Snowflake
- Document field KPI definitions and related business rules (functional design documentation)
- Document data sources for KPI metrics and ensure consistency of data sources used in metrics across all dashboards.
- Pressure-test data sources to ensure we are setting things up the right way and drawing from the right data sources
- Work closely with the data architects and reporting team to ensure consistency of metrics across dashboards
- Testing & Roll-Out
- Facilitate structured UAT of dashboard with home office and field users
- Document and prioritize UAT feedback
- Assist with training materials for field teams for new dashboard roll-outs (e.g. step-by-step guides in PPT)
- Answer questions as they arise through the Field Support Desk
Work and Technical Experience:
- Strong functional knowledge and experience in sales performance and field metrics, data and analytics
- Bio-pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience
- Pharma Commercials experience
- Ability to collaborate with business product owners and users to understand data and analytics requirements for Commercial business areas
- Strong understanding of agile methodology and ability to convert business requirements into implementation ready Epics and user stories
- Hands on knowledge with data querying, data analysis, data mining, reporting and analytics will be a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Willing to work in US EST time zone (half day or more overlap will be preferred)
- Tools: Power BI, Snowflake, Oracle DB, SQL, Microsoft office suite
Must To Have
- Strong functional knowledge and experience in sales performance and field metrics, data and analytics
- Biopharmaceutical or biotechnology experience
- Pharma Commercials experience
- Demonstrated ability to interpret business requirements and convert them into functional specifications
- Able to manage own workload with minimal direction
- Excellent presentation and communication skills and ability to clearly and succinctly express ideas
Good To Have
- Experience with Business and data analysis in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech Industry.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (Master's degree is a plus)
- Demonstrated continued learning through one or more technical certifications or related methods
- 9-11 years of experience as Business Analyst
Qualities:
- Self-motivated and focused on delivering outcomes for a fast growing team and firm
- Able to communicate persuasively through speaking, writing, and client presentations
Job Tags
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