- Understand and prioritize business requirements from multiple collaborators applying specialist knowledge where applicable.
- Interpret business requirements and simplify them for easy analysis, solution design, and decision-making to positively impact/solve medium risks/issues. Effectively communicate impact, cost, and benefits of new and changed demands.
- Work with the business to propose and deliver solutions to achieve agreed outcomes, ensuring that solutions fulfill their future strategic needs and challenges.
- Work with colleagues across IT (e.g., architects and engineers) within the function to identify the capabilities required to ensure outcomes/requirements are clearly understood and can be delivered.
- Facilitate and lead design sessions with the business and implementation team to identify functional and technical requirements.
- Capable of planning and managing their own and other team members activities to meet deliverables and deadlines.
- Communicate with the relevant partners.
Essential Skills/Experience
- Experience with Vendor Risk & Vendor Onboarding
- Experience with Ariba and/or Coupa platforms
- Experience with Direct & Indirect Procurement platform/Processes
- Working Understanding of Data Lake (Snowflake) and Reporting Capabilities
- Demonstrable experience of successfully deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
- Strong engagement, communication, and partner management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
- Experience of mentoring, coaching, or developing others
- Degree in relevant field or formal certification in business analysis practice
Desirable Skills/Experience
- End to End Procurement Processes (S2C, P2P)
- Category Management Application Experience
- Practical usage of Agile Methodology
- Experience of working in a global organization with complex/geographical context
- Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge
- Cross-industry business awareness/business domain knowledge
- Experience of working with and managing third-party suppliers/vendors
