Sr Business Analyst

Abbott • Lake Forest, IL

2d • $86,700 - $173,300 • Onsite

About The Position

Abbott’s Core Labs division is hiring a Senior Business Analyst in Lake Forest, Illinois. The role serves as the primary business-analysis contributor and a key liaison among business stakeholders, Product Management, customers, and software development teams. The analyst independently owns and drives complex discovery and analysis for assigned software products and capabilities, working across Global Marketing, Research & Development, Information Technology, Quality, Operations, Regulatory, and Business Development to deliver software solutions that provide measurable customer value.

The position involves analyzing business processes, system interactions, user workflows, and operational data; defining and maintaining requirements; and supporting product planning, software delivery, testing, and releases. The analyst manages requirements, scope, traceability, and change control across the software development lifecycle, while helping ensure that solutions meet business objectives and applicable quality-system and regulatory requirements. The role supports multiple concurrent initiatives and product releases.

Requirements

• Associate degree.
• At least 7 years of experience.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, including effective communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead requirements-definition activities for complex software products or enterprise applications.
• Experience working with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
• Experience documenting user needs, product requirements, software requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and workflow diagrams.
• Experience supporting on-market software products, software releases, and customer-reported issues.
• Experience with product-development and requirements-management tools such as Jira, Jama, Confluence, or Lucidchart, or similar tools.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• Experience with medical devices, healthcare software, diagnostic products, or clinical laboratory workflows.
• Experience with requirements traceability, change control, design controls, verification and validation, or other regulated-product-development practices.
• Experience with business-intelligence or data-visualization tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery and analysis with business stakeholders, product managers, subject matter experts, customers, and technical teams.
• Analyze business processes, system interactions, user workflows, and operational data to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Elicit, document, manage, and maintain business, functional, non-functional, and system requirements.
• Develop user stories, use cases, process flows, requirements specifications, acceptance criteria, and other analysis artifacts.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, UX, Engineering, Quality, and Regulatory teams to define scalable and compliant software solutions.
• Manage requirements traceability, scope, and change control throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Assess and communicate the effect of requirement changes on scope, timelines, risks, quality, and cost.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment by resolving competing priorities, clarifying business objectives, and recommending data-driven solutions.
• Support Agile product planning, backlog refinement, prioritization, release readiness, and post-release activities.
• Lead User Acceptance Testing planning and execution to validate solutions against business requirements.
• Partner with Quality Assurance teams to ensure comprehensive test coverage and alignment with approved requirements.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and compliance considerations and help ensure adherence to quality-system and regulatory requirements.
• Independently manage requirements and analysis activities across multiple concurrent initiatives and product releases.
• Build partnerships across business and technical teams and contribute business-analysis and product-delivery best practices.

Benefits

• Employees may qualify for free medical coverage in the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit, an affordable and convenient path to a bachelor’s degree.
• Career development opportunities with an international company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree