Business Analyst, Business Analysis and Transformation (BAT)

Walgreens•Pittsburgh, PA

About The Position

The Business Analyst (BA) will execute on projects as a liaison among business operations, technology groups, clients, business partners, vendors, and all project management offices to understand, analyze and facilitate business needs, requirements, and impacts of business changes as a result of strategic initiatives, operational changes, compliance requirements, client needs, and technology or operational improvements. This position will be specific to supporting our Pharma Configurations which will entail, documenting requirements based off our contracts, planning and executing UAT and supporting additional business request in regards to our Pharma Programs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree OR, High School Diploma/GED and at least three (3) years of experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Nice To Haves

Specialty Pharmacy Experience
ScriptMed Enterprise Knowledge and Experience
Bachelor’s Degree

Responsibilities

Define and validate business needs with project team
Participate in stakeholder analysis and identify subject matter experts needed for work effort
Work with stakeholders and project teams to elicit and document goals, high level requirements, business capability gaps, and success metrics; define and validate business needs with project team
Participate in contract reviews, analyze contracts for questions or discrepancies and utilize signed contracts for business requirements
Plan business analyst approach and activities
Prepare for, conduct, and document elicitation sessions
Manage requirements traceability to solution scope, objectives, system requirements, and testing
Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by defining user acceptance testing approach and plan, writing applicable test cases, assisting in UAT management and defect resolution
Develops and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business processes and industry practices pertaining to purchasing and distributing.
Analyzes corresponding data to effectively recommend system procedure changes, enhancements, development of functional specifications or interface opportunities with costs and or return on investment summarized.
Develops and presents cost-benefit analyses of proposed programs and makes specific recommendations tied to the business goals of the department and Company.
Collects, analyzes and presents information pertaining to long-term planning and strategic goals of the department.
Works on projects in strategy development, industry trends, competitive analysis, and company positioning as it relates to pharmacy purchasing and distribution.