Associate Business Analyst

AstraZeneca • Wilmington, DE

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Business Analyst role will have a direct influence on designing business processes and solutions to support business groups for platforms used by thousands of sales associates across the United States, which will ultimately help ensure millions of patients will have access to our life saving products. The Business Analyst has experience contributing business analysis, design, and test activities to a large scale/global business change or delivering small scale business change alone. The Business Analyst operates with interactive communication, demonstrating inclusion and cultural sensitivity. The role will partner with the Capability Lead, Business Partner, or other Business Analyst colleagues to support the development of business cases, assist in business process design, and ensure that proposed solutions meet established AstraZeneca quality and compliance standards and business solution needs. The Business Analyst will be interacting and working with commercial colleagues and stakeholders directly to support and influence solutions to meet business needs. The Associate Business Analyst is expected to perform at capable level in the following: Business Needs Identification – Candidates can drive an assessment of business need and areas for improvement. Candidates proactively seek opportunities to enhance and improve in line with strategic goals, proposing potential solutions through research. Business Analysis Planning - Candidates are capable in characterizing a solution or initiative’s complexity, risks, known assumptions, constraints, and dependencies. Candidates are proficient in scoping and recommending appropriate approaches. Candidates are capable of planning, sequencing, and coordinating activities to meet deliverables and deadlines. Stakeholder Analysis & Change - Candidates effectively identify stakeholders and maintain relationships according to individual stakeholder needs and levels of influence. Candidates can compile communication and change management plans for projects and stakeholders. Requirements Analysis and Design Definition – Candidates can coordinate/develop requirement plans including user story sessions, approvals, RAID and scope impacts. Candidates are skilled in traceability, testing and validation. Candidates can collaborate with business colleagues to identify functional and technical requirements. Candidates partner the architecture team to ensure the technical solution will deliver the agreed business benefits. Business Case and Benefits Management – Candidates can coordinate/support business case definition and capture investment business justification including ROI and benefits realization plans. Solution Evaluation – Candidates assess solution proposals and articulate supporting arguments for a recommended solution. Candidates work collaboratively with other IT roles to develop/maintain business relationships, support business process change and act as point of contact for application development. Candidates work with business colleagues to identify business requirements and effectively communicate the impact, cost, and benefits of new or changed solutions. Candidates facilitate user acceptance testing. Candidates support process owners to identify and devise solutions that optimize business process performance, capability, and competitiveness. IT Delivery - Candidates collaborate with IT architecture, delivery, and support/operations to ensure clear understanding of all requirements and effective testing. so that the solutions delivered to the business are efficient and effective, meeting the customer experience expectations. Candidates work collaboratively with or take responsibility for the following roles: Project Managers/Scrum Lead – Candidates can work collaboratively with this role to set the right expectations on timeline for business solution delivery. Candidates will ensure risks are tracked and communicated effectively with the correct stakeholder group. Test Lead - Candidates can define the testing approach and the components of testing to ensure traceability of requirements and effectiveness of overall solution. Change Management/Communications Lead - Candidates can ensure the Change Management and Communications plans according to the Stakeholder Analysis Business Partners/BRM – Candidates will work collaboratively and support business partners/BRMs to evaluate, design and communicate business process changes, business solution options and considerations to stakeholder groups.

Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience, including demonstrated work as a Business Analyst or Senior Business Analyst.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience of using current business analysis tools and techniques to design and deliver business change.
• Strong engagement, communication and facilitation skills including storyboarding, presentation and influencing skills
• Experience of working in a regulated environment
• Experience of working with third party suppliers/vendors
• Business acumen
• Challenge, negotiation, and influence
• Stakeholder Management
• Presentation, Communication & Facilitation
• Customer Focus
• Networking
• Planning
• Business Process Management
• Requirements Management
• Compliance/ Regulatory

Nice To Haves

• Degree in relevant discipline or formal certification in business analysis practice
• Exposure to Agile Methodology
• Experience of working in a global organization
• Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge/Pharmaceutical data knowledge
• Benefits Management and Realization
• User Centered Design (User Experience, User Interface Design and Business Process Design)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees