Manager, Business Analysis
About Perceptive
Our mission is to shape the future of clinical research. With decades of experience and the brightest minds in the industry, we help the global biopharmaceutical industry bring new, advanced medical treatments to market, faster.
We seek to change the world, and with the support of our teams across the globe, we flourish together. At Perceptive , we are one team. We learn, grow and win together.
Are you ready to help change the world?
Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:
HEALTH:
- Medical, Dental and Vision benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
YOURSELF :
- Paid time off policy including holidays and sick time
- Internal growth and development programs & trainings
WEALTH:
401(k) program, life & accident insurance and disability insurance
About the role
As Manager, Business Analyst, your role sits within multiple areas of the business, to facilitate the generation of value from our products and services for our customers, both internal and external. At the core of this role, is the ability to gather requirements from multiple stakeholder groups, and look for opportunities to drive efficiency and value. Creating and maintaining meticulous documentation, our BA resources are flexible, knowledgeable communicators, influencers and facilitators; evidence-led to develop best of breed solutions and services our customers are delighted to use. As Manager, Business Analyst, you will work with other levels of the BA team, taking ownership of substantial initiatives, but also managing a team of BA’s to develop the skills and competencies of the team.
Key Accountabilities:
Requirements definition & management
- Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for large, complex initiatives.
- Adopts appropriate requirements definition and management methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
- Obtains input from, and formal agreement to, requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts.
- Establishes requirements baselines.
- Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.
- Contributes to the development of organizational methods and standards.
Business analysis
- Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
- Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration.
- Works iteratively with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.
User centricity analysis
- Describes users’ goals and tasks and the environment within which the system, product or service will be used.
- Facilitates both moderated and unmoderated user centricity assessments.
- Evaluates prototypes or designs of systems, products or services against the agreed usability and accessibility expectations. Interprets and presents results of evaluations and prioritizes issues.
- Assists in assessing the stability of requirements against changes in use.
Relationship Management
- Implements stakeholder engagement / communications plan.
- Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
- Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.
- Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
- Understands and collaborates on the analysis of user/customer needs and represents this in their