BA - 1354 (NCS/Job/ 3891)

Job Description:
Business Analyst  

· Knowledge of operational business processes within Supply Chain functions (Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement, Logistics) is strongly preferred. 

· Experience in working with ERP (SAP), Tableau, SQL, or other data and analytics tools is preferred. 

· Partner & proactively lead meetings with business SMEs to future scope, pre-discovery, data discovery to drive overall achievement of digital roadmap and business value generation 

· Gather, analyze, document, and validate the needs of business stakeholders 

· Concisely communicate with stakeholders and business teams to gain & move project work forward. 

· Write user stories, manage scrum calls, prioritize backlog 

· Knowledge and ability to write test scripts for business testing based on the requirements 

· Analyze the business and system impacts of a solution and partner with the team to plan detailed tasks required to achieve delivery of the fully tested solution 

· Provide regular, timely, transparent communication on progress against digital product and capability roadmaps to both internal DTO and cross-functional business stakeholders. 

Qualifications 
· Minimum of a Bachelors’ degree is required. Specialization in supply chain with experience in data engineering, data science or advanced analytics fields is strongly preferred. 

· Minimum of 6 years of business experience with at least 2 years of Supply Chain, Finance, IT or other relevant functional experience required. 

· Outstanding stakeholder management experience, superior influencing, and collaboration skills are required 

· Strong written and verbal communication skills are required 

· Strong understanding and working experience utilizing design-thinking best practices– empathy, requirements definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing to deliver digital products and experiences is required 

· Experience with Agile product development methodology is required. 

· Experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating the needs of the business stakeholders is required. 

· Experience writing user stories, managing scrum calls, prioritizing backlog, etc. is required. 

· Ability to work with both technical and non-technical team members is required. 

· Strong critical thinking, with outstanding analytical, influencing, and interpersonal skills are required. 

· Experience in being part of large, cross-functional projects & programs is strongly preferred. 

· Strong digital product management experience including experience in building / managing data and analytics platforms, data science / advanced analytics / intelligent automation solutions is preferred. 

· Strong Supply Chain industry knowledge and business acumen preferred. 

· Experience in working with Microsoft Azure stack preferred. 

· Experience working in or with a complex global organization spanning across functions is preferred.