Business Analyst

The Business Analyst has experience understanding systems, applying system knowledge to meet customer needs and has leadership skills to help the team grow. He/she will display a deeper understanding of the role and business analysis tasks and techniques as well as demonstrate effective team leadership behaviors.

In addition, the Business Analyst will have successfully demonstrated experience performing responsibilities expected as a Business Analyst, which include:

• Acting as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of the organization and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its objectives, goals and corporate vision.

• Working closely with business personnel to evaluate business drivers and technology requirements, and defines systems strategies and specifications tailored to meet business requirements.

• Acting as a primary point of contact with the business on behalf of the technology organization for new business opportunities. In this capacity, the Business Analyst is also a leader for change and process improvement.

• Using industry standard analysis techniques and best practices, the Business Analyst reviews new business opportunities, identifies requirements and coordinates with development teams within technology to determine best possible solutions.

LOCATION: Remote - United States

Job Responsibilities:

• Strengthen and maintain relationships with customer, stakeholders and team members, may include limited travel to customer

• Obtain and maintain in-depth knowledge of Packaging and Distribution

• Critically analyze requirements elicited from customer

• Provide guidance to customers and determine how best the Core Packaging and Distribution system can meet requirements

• Facilitate cross-team requirement and design discussions

• Collaborate with portfolio business analysts, data analysts, cross-team leads on new gap requirements

• Create, maintain, and use standards, guidelines, and tools for the team

• Maintain scope documentation

• Support quality assurance activities and cross-team discussions

• Participate in daily standup meetings

• Participate in coordination of setup and development activities

• Communicate progress of setup and development activities

• Meet customer milestone dates

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business Administration, or related is required.

• 6 years of related experience, systems development experience and design and development of department-wide or enterprise-wide applications.

• Experience with Jira, SmartSheet, Microsoft 365

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Competencies in facilitation and negotiation, interviewing, business writing, active listening, presentation skills, problem solving, team building, systems thinking, leadership and influencing.

• Ability to successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously with overlapping deadlines.

• Experience working and contributing to a positive team environment.

• Excellent organizational skills and strong attention to detail required.

• Creative self-starter, ability to apply knowledge and skills to new business opportunities.

The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $70-80k. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.

Benefits available to eligible employees can be seen at: https://pearsonbenefitsus.com/

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Job: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: Assessment & Qualifications

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Req ID: 2810