Manager, Business Analysis - Strategic Business Solutions PMO

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Summary:
Carries out detailed and occasionally complex analysis of strategic opportunities and cost savings initiatives. Documents and communicates recommendations to stakeholders to support key decision making. Key contributor to vendor or IT system requirements and designs process improvement initiatives. May conduct peer reviews of work to ensure quality standards are met. Participates in PMO best practices definition and continuous improvement initiatives.

Essential Functions:

• Establishes relationships with business users, understand their business processes and problem areas.
• Develops visual representations of As-Is and To-Be scenarios to aid communication with both the business and senior management, with the view to optimize processes and automate where possible.
• Be able to quantify the work involved, identify the key stakeholders, and calculate the potential benefits for senior management consideration.
• Captures accurate, detailed, and comprehensive requirements from a wide range of business users.
• Documents and categorizes requirements in a manner that is understandable to the business, developers, and testing teams.
• Contributes to requirements planning and assessing level of effort.
• May assist with technical feasibility discussions, prototype development, and the design of efficient, adaptable and scalable solutions.
• Identifies specific proof of concepts that can be engineered to assist with the understanding of effort required for a full implementation.
• Assists in the evaluation of vendor/IT proposals and the identification of gaps to facilitate good decision making within the business.
• Assists PMO and business leadership in understanding complex initiatives and solutions.
• Works with the wider PMO team to identify improvements to practices for potential adoption by the group.

Supervision Received:

Assignments are objective oriented.  Work is reviewed in terms of meeting the organization's objectives and timelines.  Acts independently to determine methods. May supervise the activities of others.

Business Relationships:

Interacts frequently with business functions across all levels of management concerning projects, operational decisions and / or scheduling requirements.

Leads meetings for internal representatives where business processes are interrogated and assessed for fit for purpose.

Qualifications: 

Education and Experience: 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 7+ years).
• 3+ years of senior business analysis role
• Proven business analysis skills.
• Contract Research Organization (CRO) industry experience is highly preferred.

In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.  

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Skilled in process improvement and strategic development, especially as it applies to clinical trials, clinical development and project management
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Technical and systems competency, such as computer skills, to include effective use of systems and applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams ; requirements management systems a plus (JIRA, Azure DevOps, or  similar)
• Proven flexibility and ability to effectively prioritize workload with the support of leadership
• Good judgment, decision making and problem-solving skills with ability to apply critical and analytical strategic thinking skills to assess complex/ambiguous situations.
• Proactive, solutions oriented and experienced at risk identification.