Sr Analyst Business Systems IT

Medline Industries, LP•Northbrook, IL

1d•$101,000 - $152,000

About The Position

Responsible for collaborating with business partners and identifying business problems. Recommend solutions with new or existing processes, applications, systems, programs, or software. Will manage and drive multiple primary assignments and handle complex issues/requests. Will act as the primary contact as a business relationship manager that will become a subject matter expert in operations data for Safety, People, Quality, Service, or Cost. This role involves leading requirements gathering sessions, organizing effective meetings, identifying inter-dependencies of complex projects, researching technologies, taking ownership of deliverables, defining standards, prioritizing assignments for junior team members, providing feedback, investigating and documenting business requirements, constructing workflow charts, recommending solutions, interpreting business requirements to functional designs, collaborating with Developers and Engineers, performing implementation and configuration activities, acting as a liaison between IT and business partners, developing reports and dashboards, ensuring solutions are tested, communicating changes, owning/coordinating Scrum Ceremonies, and providing regular status reports.

Requirements

Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in business or IT related field.
At least 4 years of experience in system analysis and configuration.
Dashboard development experience using JIRA or other similar technology.
Utilizing JQL for data analysis and performance tuning.
Analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
Experience in an agile/scrum environment.
Experience applying project management methodologies.
Broad knowledge of hardware, software, and programming.
Experience documenting complex processes and generating supporting diagrams.
Time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
Experience working with cross-functional teams and facilitating teams to identify and implement solutions to complex problems.
Ability to assess and initiate actions independently.
Experience and skills in influencing, leading and directing individuals in multiple functional areas.
Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills.
Strong customer service skills.
Strong business analytical and problem-solving skills.
Self-motivated, demonstrated bias for action.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with Tableau, WebFOCUS, SQL, SSIS, Alteryx, Power BI, Python, and R.
Experience with Machine Learning and predictive analytics strategies.

Responsibilities

Lead requirements gathering sessions with multiple stakeholders with minimal dependency from Lead or Manager.
Organize and engage in effective meetings with the team and business.
Identify the inter-dependencies of complex projects across domains.
Requires communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams including senior leaders and executives.
Research technologies/solutions available with minimal dependency on lead/manager.
Take ownership of deliverables and improve existing processes.
Define standards for team deliverables and processes.
Prioritize primary assignments and ad-hoc work for junior team members.
Provide feedback to team members as required.
Investigate and document business requirements from business partners to facilitate discussions and conduct workflow analyses.
Construct workflow charts and diagrams, study system capabilities, and write specifications.
Recommend solutions or improvements to business processes which can be accomplished through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology.
Interpret business requirements to functional designs.
Collaborate with Developers and Engineers on technical designs and development.
Perform implementation and configuration activities including prototyping, analysis, system configuration, operational implementation and process documentation.
Act as a liaison between the IT development group and business partners for the development and implementation of new systems and enhancement of existing systems.
Working with large datasets within applications, develop reports and dashboards as well as the creative problem solving, leadership, and communication skills necessary to drive change.
Ensure solutions are tested/validated sufficiently before being implemented in production.
Test planning and testing results with minimal level of input and review from management.
Work with the business partners to ensure process and system changes are communicated clearly and that users are informed and/or trained sufficiently.
Own/coordinate Scrum Ceremonies.
Delivery required Change Request and documentation for deployments.
Provide regular status reports in Jira and power point slides.
Create/Update Jira Plans to reflect current project roadmap.