Agile Business Analyst

This position is located in the Des Moines, Iowa area and you must be able to work on-site

Why WorldWide?

Worldwide Logistics is one of the fastest growing 3PLs in the country. We operate with reinforced core values, confidence, and take pride in the job that we do every day. The transportation world is rooted in relationships - we take pride in the connections that we create on and offsite by using our unique ability to partner with others. We have an innovative and progressive culture that allows for career growth and financial rewards.

Since 1999, WorldWide Logistics has grown exponentially leading to continuous rapid growth. This has given us the ability to build a brand new 76,000 square foot HQ building completed in 2023. Our new HQ features a modern amenity rich environment for employees including a café, numerous collaborative areas, food markets, a large outdoor patio seating area, and a quarter mile lighted walking path around a serene pond.

WorldWide Logistics is passionate about continuous improvement and seeking out individuals who are innovative, proactive, motivated, and coachable. One of our most impactful qualities is the ability to embrace challenges, grow through change, and encourage creativity to get ahead of the constant market variables.

This position will work as a liaison among product managers to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and information systems. The business analyst understands business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals developing and maintaining software for WorldWide.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Translate product requirements gathered from product managers into specifications for scrum team and perform additional research and interviews as necessary
• Create product workflows for features
• Create epic level tickets to define product roadmap features
• Work closely with product managers, lead software engineer, and the scrum team to understand product capabilities and future needs.
• Manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment and work with product managers and lead software engineer on prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and assist in business change management
• Partner on root cause analysis and resolution
• Foster the process of feature design, scope and sizing, user story definition, and delivery
• Collaborate with others in an agile development environment
• Assist with product roadmap definition and refinement
• Interact with customers to understand needs and assess product value
• Assist with product feature demos
• Explain and visualize product features and business requirements to others
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience
• Associates degree or equivalent experience in accounting, business, or computer science, and/or related experience
• Agile software development methodologies and principles
• Strong interpersonal skills; including facilitation, collaboration, and negotiation
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills with all levels of employees
• Strong teamwork, organization, task management, and problem resolution skills
• Self-starter with a proven ability to deliver results with minimal assistance
• Solid understanding of data manipulation, database structures, and usage
• Experience using Azure DevOps to create user stories and monitor development progress and support card resolution.

What's in it for YOU?

At WorldWide Logistics, we value our employees and believe in providing a positive work environment. As part of our team, you will enjoy:

• Brand new HQ building in Urbandale off I-80/35
• Competitive Salary
• Opportunities for career advancement
• Catered lunches and weekly food trucks
• Monthly Employee Appreciation Day
• Company Swag
• Employee Clubs i.e., Gardening, Art, Book, Dungeons and Dragons, etc.
• Bags Tournaments (Future outdoor recreation coming soon)
• Community Involvement
• Casual dress
• PTO Plan
• Full suite of benefits including health (HDHP with HSA), dental, vision, flexible spending plans, life insurance, voluntary life, voluntary short-term disability, voluntary long-term disability, 401k with a match, voluntary ID Theft plan
• Access to cutting-edge technology
• A collaborative and supportive team culture
• A company where your ideas are valued