Business Analyst

When you are part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do exciting work, and be part of a team that values performance, quality and innovation. As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best. With revenues of $20 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

**Position Summary**:
In this role you will act as a critical link between the business functions and the engineering team, collaborating with functional leadership, Project Managers and external suppliers to ensure new and enhanced product features are delivered in an efficient manner without negatively impacting quality.

**Business Analyst** Duties and Responsibilities**
- Collaborates with global commercial services partners and customers to drive products features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment.
- Works with multi-functional teams and various partners including analytics, UI/UX, engineering and user enablement.
- Continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines turning points and deliverables, and finds opportunities and risks.
- Partners with team members and customers across the organization to form the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.
- Requirements elicitation
- Lead structured meetings and use collaborative workshops to gather requirements and uncover expectations.
- Elicit what is behind and underneath stated requirements rather than just collating and coordinating requirements.
- Understand the business vision, needs, drivers for change, current struggles, internal and external factors and suggest solutions and alternatives.
- Participate in case development for business and ensure benefits are achievable and trackable
- Design
- Produce quality documentation of the final business requirements and processes maintaining a high professional standard.
- Clearly define project requirements using appropriate documentation (business requirements, scope matrix, use cases, etc.)
- Detail work you're doing and success criteria as well as metrics to measure impact of changes and return on investment.
- Communication and Demand Management
- Act as the liaison between business partners and IT, performing as the internal “customer” during the build of the system.
- Review design documentation with business users and represent the users with the Development Team
- Project Execution
- For smaller changes. you act as adhoc Project coordinator to ensure the change is led through different phases of Software development process and partners are updated regularly on progress.
- Comfortable in managing change cycle in waterfall as well as Agile environments.

**Product Owner Qualifications / Skills**:

- Bachelor's degree (BA or BS) in business analysis, computer science, or equivalent
- Two years of previous experience as a product owner or business analyst
- An agile mentality with proven values such as dedication, grit, openness, and respect
- Excited to experiment and learn rapidly.
- Able to work optimally with global teams in different time zones
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
- Excellent analytical and technical skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent planning and organizational skills.
- Solid experience of creating solution designs and supporting the delivery of supply chain technology within distribution sector
- Exposure to full lifecycle experience of complex environments with a mixture of in-house developed software and off the shelf solutions.
- Leadership ability with a proven understanding of business and technology requirements to integrate and implement solutions optimally.
- Understanding of order to cash processes along with exposure to supply chain and distribution operations.
- Exposure to ERP/Warehouse management system implementations, go-live activities including UAT support, supervising cutover plans and providing support to business to adapt to new change would be an asset.