Our West Chester, Ohio, facility is one of 30 production facilities in 18 countries that creates life-changing medicines for people around the world. We focus on providing a collaborative environment where everyone feels comfortable and able to be themselves. Being able to bring your full self to work every day is at the core of AstraZeneca’s priorities. On-site amenities include a Health and Wellness clinic, as well as a Cafeteria Grille serving breakfast and lunch items for employees and guests. We also have a Great Place to Work Counsel, involving committees of employees who coordinate several activities related to community outreach, sustainability, health and wellness and social events.

The Business Analyst performs business analysis and design either alone delivering small to medium size business change activities; or as a member or lead of a BA team in a large or global business change. Operates with a high level of interactive communication, demonstrating high levels of inclusion and cultural sensitivity.

Typical Accountabilities

The Business Analyst is expected to perform at Advanced level in the following:

• Business Needs Identification – Operates at a functional level in assessing and defining business need and areas for improvement. Proactively seeks out opportunities to enhance and improve in line with strategic goals. Actively monitors and identifies capability gaps and proposes potential solutions through research internally and externally.
• Business Analysis Planning – Selects the appropriate analysis approach to a piece of work depending on its complexity, level of risk, known assumptions, constraints and dependencies. Proficient in scoping and recommending appropriate approaches. Capable of planning and leading their own and other team member’s activities to meet deliverables within appropriate timeframes. Accountable for performance and quality of analytical work delivered.
• Stakeholder Analysis & Change – Effectively identifies partners from all areas of the business, and actively builds and maintains relationships according to individual partner needs and levels of influence. Contributes to communication plans and change management for project.
• Requirements Analysis and Design Definition – Responsible and accountable for requirements management plans including elicitation, approvals, processes, RAID and scope impacts. Highly responsive to changing business priorities with ability to plan ahead, accounting for potential changes and corrective actions. Sophisticated requirements elicitation and management skill-set; including traceability, testing and validation. Leads the work with the business to identify functional and technical requirements, translating the requirements into design specifications reflecting Functional Design, User Interface Design and Business Process Design. Closely partnering with the Architecture team, ensuring the technical solution will deliver the agreed business benefits.
• Business Case Definition – Shapes and defines the business case, producing detailed business justification for investment including value and benefits realization.
• Solution Evaluation – Highly proficient in analyzing and assessing solution proposals and can articulate supporting reasoning. i.e. assessing business readiness, improving value vs. spend.

Work collaboratively with, or take ownership for:

• Business Partners to ensure that solutions fulfill their future strategic needs and challenges
• Business Relationship Managers to develop and maintain the business relationship, support business process change and act as point of contact for application development
• Business customers to identify business requirements and effectively communicate impact, cost and benefits of new and changed demands
• Process owners to identify and devise solutions that optimize business process performance, capability and competitiveness
• IT Architecture, Delivery and Support to ensure clear understanding of requirements and effective testing so that the solutions delivered to the business are efficient and effective, meeting the customer experience expectations.
• Test Lead to define the testing approach and the components of testing to ensure traceability and effectiveness of overall solution.
• Communication Lead to ensure the Change Management and Communications plans and delivery support the Stakeholder Analysis.

Education, Qualifications, and Experience

Required

• Solid understanding of bio-pharma industry and experience working in a regulated environment
• Experience successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
• Experience working with complex integrated systems, using creative and critical thinking to deliver outstanding results
• Strong engagement, communication and stakeholder management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
• Experience of virtual collaboration to lead, craft and develop innovative solutions
• Experience at a global organization with complex/geographical context
• Experience of mentoring, coaching or developing others

Desirable

Specific technology experience preferred in the following:

• Quality Control Lab Environment systems, including LIMS and Empower
• SAP SCMQ, PM, WM, OTC and/or PI.
• Werum PAS-X, OSI PI, Industrial automation, process control, SCADA.
• Lean training and experience
• Practical usage of Agile Methodology

Join AstraZeneca and help us deliver life changing medicines. Be among our employees who continue to make us an innovation-driven company that stands firmly among the leaders in biopharmaceuticals.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.