BA Planning (NCS/Job/ 3910)

Business Analyst (BA-Planning Analytics- 1248)

3 to 5yrs

Job description: Make Capability Business Analyst 

· Deeply understand business goals and strategies, as well as operational context and processes

· Act as a liaison for reporting between the business side and IT / Digital to implement Digital Solutions – collect business requirements, develop logic in SQL and work with dev/viz teams on implementation. 

· 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, participate in scrum calls, & prioritize backlog 

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

· Apply technical and functional knowledge to design solutions which are in line with technical architecture, database design, and performance 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.

· Facilitate end user adoption of various digital capabilities, drive training, provide hypercare support, collect feedback from end users to continuously improve deployed solutions

· Ensure business solutions are deployed, fully embedded into ways of working, and constantly improved to address changing business needs and transform and mature our business. 

 

Qualifications

· Minimum of a Bachelors’ degree is required. Specialization in Manufacturing 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 Manufacturing 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.

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

· Experience in being part of large, cross-functional projects & programs within a complex global organization is strongly preferred.

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