Business Analyst and Project Manager
About The Position
At The Blood Connection, every role plays a part in saving lives. Join our team and help make an impact in your community today! The Business Analyst / Project Manager is responsible for aligning projects and processes with organizational strategy, providing feasibility studies for potential projects, translating business needs into project requirements, defining and articulating project scope, deliverables, and success, overseeing and managing projects, and overseeing the PMIS (Project Management Information System). This role also involves data analysis and business intelligence, including the creation and interpretation of reports and data perspectives, as well as process improvement through the evaluation and standardization of processes and workflows and the application of lean methodologies to business processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Five years’ experience leading and managing projects
- Valid Driver’s License with no major infractions and dependable transportation
- Ability to establish and maintain excellent relationships with executives, managers, and employees
- Ability to communicate effectively, tactfully, and courteously to patrons, donors, sponsors, and co-workers
- Ability to organize and prioritize workload and meet deadlines
- Strong computer skills including intermediate skill level with Microsoft Project, Visio, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Must demonstrate a high level of professionalism
Nice To Haves
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) preferred
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt preferred
Responsibilities
- Aligning projects and processes with organizational strategy
- Providing feasibility studies for potential projects
- Translating business needs into project requirements
- Defining and articulating project scope, deliverables, and success
- Overseeing and managing projects
- Overseeing the PMIS (Project Management Information System)
- Creation of reports and data perspectives
- Interpretation of reports and data perspectives
- Evaluation of and standardization of processes and workflows
- Application of lean methodologies to business processes
- Facilitates the definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables based on the change control process
- Conducts project feasibility studies to determine project alignment with organizational objectives
- Gathers initial project requirements from project stakeholders and traces project requirements to business objectives
- Elicits expectations from all stakeholders, including quality, budget, delivery timelines, and strategy
- Focuses on project deliverables and outcomes
- Defines and documents project scope
- Compares actual deliverables to planned deliverables to determine project success
- Defines project tasks and resource requirements
- Provides project evaluations and assessment of results
- Manages scope creep through change orders, phased delivery, or other appropriate methods and develops contingency plans when needed
- Translates stakeholder requests into data requirements
- Conducts research / geographical studies to optimize TBC territory alignment with existing donor populations and market opportunity
- Organizes and presents operational metrics for monthly business plan meetings
- Organizes and develops perspectives that compare labor hours to collections productivity
- Generates board reports for the executive team
- Constructs process maps, flowcharts, and diagrams
- Creates Value Stream Maps (VSM) to illustrate process flow
- Facilitates 5S projects
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
