Senior Business Analyst, Commercial IT BBU

The Business Analyst role will have a direct influence on designing business processes and solutions to support business groups for platforms used by thousands of sales associates across the United States, which will ultimately help ensure millions of patients will have access to our life saving products. The Business Analyst has experience contributing business analysis, design, and test activities to a large scale/global business change or delivering small scale business change alone. The Business Analyst operates with interactive communication, demonstrating inclusion and cultural sensitivity.  

The role will partner with the Capability Lead, Business Partner, or other Business Analyst colleagues to support the development of cases, assist in business process design, and ensure that proposed solutions meet established AstraZeneca quality and compliance standards and business solution needs. The Business Analyst will be interacting and working with commercial colleagues and customers directly to support and influence solutions to meet business needs.

The Business Analyst is expected to perform at capable level in the following: 

• Business Needs Identification – Candidates can drive an assessment of business need and areas for improvement. Candidates proactively seek opportunities to enhance and improve in line with strategic goals, proposing potential solutions through research. 
• Business Analysis Planning - Candidates are capable in characterizing a solution or initiative’s complexity, risks, known assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.  Candidates are proficient in prioritization and recommending appropriate approaches. Candidates are capable of planning, sequencing, and coordinating activities to meet work and deadlines. 
• Customer Analysis & Change - Candidates effectively identify customers and maintain relationships according to individual customer needs and levels of influence. Candidates can compile communication and transition plans for projects and team members. 
• Requirements Analysis and Design Definition – Candidates can coordinate/develop requirement plans including user story sessions, approvals, RAID and scope impacts. Candidates are skilled in traceability, testing and validation.  Candidates can collaborate with business colleagues to