Business Analyst Senior

Solenis•Wilmington, DE

About The Position

Solenis is a leading global provider of water and hygiene solutions. The company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of water treatment chemistries, process aids, functional additives, cleaners, disinfectants, and state-of-the-art monitoring, control and delivery systems. These technologies are used by customers to improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets, minimize environmental impact, and create cleaner and safer environments. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company has 78 manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe and employs a team of over ~23000 professionals in >160 countries across six continents. Solenis is a 2025 Best Managed Company Gold Standard honoree. For additional information about Solenis, please visit www.solenis.com or follow us on social media. Who You Are We are seeking a high-impact Business Analyst to lead strategic digital initiatives that improve processes, drive productivity, and deliver measurable business value across the organization. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can operate at both strategic and execution levels, and is comfortable working directly with senior leadership to bring ideas to life. The Role As a Business Analyst, you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of internal digital projects, from ideation through execution, while ensuring alignment with financial targets and organizational priorities. You will: Lead multiple high-impact projects simultaneously Build and defend business cases tied to Annual Operating Plan (AOP) outcomes Drive alignment across business units, regions, and P&L leaders Operate within structured governance frameworks and present regularly to executives

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
Experience in SAP
Process improvement experience and productivity experience preferred
Critical thinking skills
Ability to break down complex problems into discrete small projects
Ability to scope projects in small and achievable buckets.
Ability to generate hypotheses and test them rapidly and transition if the hypotheses are rejected.
Ability to prioritize on the vital few of a project and avoid ‘boiling the ocean.’
Mental agility- ability to flex and change courses quickly, as situations change.
Organization: Time stewardship and meeting management
Ability to organize meetings and be a steward of project team time.
Create meeting agendas before the meeting.
Build prework and have team members come prepared for meetings.
Build a meeting strategy where the project team is talking instead of the project manager
Build a process each meeting updates action item list- specific action, one owner (not a team) and a deadline

Responsibilities

Lead multiple high-impact projects simultaneously
Build and defend business cases tied to Annual Operating Plan (AOP) outcomes
Drive alignment across business units, regions, and P&L leaders
Operate within structured governance frameworks and present regularly to executives
Capability to organize and run projects
Project management- ability to run 2-3 projects simultaneously, in accordance with the TMO standard operating procedure.
Ability to lead cross functional project teams that design and execute productivity initiatives.
Capability to articulate a project handoff before a project starts
Capability to articulate and align roles and responsibilities at the project launch
Capability to lead a team to build crisp problem statements and iterate them with project sponsors 2-3 times in gate reviews.
Create artifacts including: 1) project charters, 2) project workplans, 3) scoping, 4) scorecards, 5) action item lists and holding people accountable, 6) project prenups (plan the project exit before you start a project)
Build project business case and articulate assumptions to senior leaders
Generate hypotheses for potential projects, quickly test them, and scale successful initiatives.
Generate targets and transparently share variance reporting (actuals vs target) for FP&A to place in AOP
Align targets with P&L leaders prior to AOP
Establish governance and executive report outs.
Run the TMO gate review process
Prepare gating artifacts and templates for the project team
Prep project team to present at gate review
Work with HUB and FP&A to track project results
Capability to build a change management structure and lead the structure through a change management process