TMO Business Analyst, Senior

Solenis•United States of America, Delaware (Remote), DE

4d•$123,690 - $181,412

About The Position

As Senior Business Analyst you will run programs and projects to eliminate the friction from current processes. You will need solid project and change management skills plus the ability to lead cross functional teams to drive value. You will take internal productivity projects through execution and business adoption and will create project plans, facilitate a project team through the TMO project process, and ensure project execution. You must create BU/region targets and align the targets with P&L leaders prior to AOP. Therefore, ideally you will have the capability to develop the project assumptions, build a multi-year business case, and understand the value by BU and region. As well as gaining alignment from the senior leaders prior to executing the project. (All projects will have an AOP impact). As Senior Business Analyst you be responsible for operating at a high operational tempo, leading company governance processes, and presenting results to executives monthly. This role will sunset after the digital projects are complete.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
Ability to collaborate effectively
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.

Nice To Haves

Seller experience preferred
Process improvement experience and productivity experience preferred

Responsibilities

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 oversee 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 steer the structure through a change management process
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