Job Title: Business Analyst

Career Level : D2

Introduction to role

The Business Analyst performs business analysis and design, either independently delivering small to medium-sized business change activities or as a member or leader of a BA team in large or global business changes. The Business Analyst operates with a high level of interactive communication, demonstrating high levels of inclusion and cultural sensitivity.

The role will partner with Sr. Business Partners/Business Partners, taking responsibility to deliver high-quality business cases, business process designs, and ensuring that proposed solutions meet established AstraZeneca quality and compliance standards and business solution needs.

Accountabilities

The Business Analyst is expected to perform at an advanced level or equivalent experience in the following:

• Understand and prioritize business requirements from multiple collaborators applying specialist knowledge where applicable.
• Interpret business requirements and simplify them for easy analysis, solution design, and decision-making to positively impact/solve medium risks/issues. Effectively communicate impact, cost, and benefits of new and changed demands.
• Work with the business to propose and deliver solutions to achieve agreed outcomes, ensuring that solutions fulfill their future strategic needs and challenges.
• Work with colleagues across IT (e.g., architects and engineers) within the function to identify the capabilities required to ensure outcomes/requirements are clearly understood and can be delivered.
• Facilitate and lead design sessions with the business and implementation team to identify functional and technical requirements.
• Capable of planning and managing their own and other team members’ activities to meet deliverables and deadlines.
• Communicate with the relevant partners.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Experience with Vendor Risk & Vendor Onboarding
• Experience with Ariba and/or Coupa platforms
• Experience with Direct & Indirect Procurement platform/Processes
• Working Understanding of Data Lake (Snowflake) and Reporting Capabilities
• Demonstrable experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
• Strong engagement, communication, and partner management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
• Experience of mentoring, coaching, or developing others
• Degree in relevant field or formal certification in business analysis practice

Desirable Skills/Experience

• End to End Procurement Processes (S2C, P2P)
• Category Management Application Experience
• Practical usage of Agile Methodology
• Experience of working in a global organization with complex/geographical context
• Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge
• Cross-industry business awareness/business domain knowledge
• Experience of working with and managing third-party suppliers/vendors

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