Principal Business Analyst - Commercial OTC (Can be based in Europe, Midwest/East Coast N. America)

Additional Location(s): US-MA-Marlborough; Canada-ON-Mississauga; Canada-ON-Ottawa; Ireland-Clonmel; Netherlands-Kerkrade; US-MN-Arden Hills; US-MN-Maple Grove; United Kingdom-Camberley

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

About the role:  

The Principal Business Analyst, Business Transformation – OTC Commercial reporting to the Sr. Manager, Business Transformation—Commercial OTC is a member of the Sales Enablement organization with responsibility to Magellan program.  The Sales Enablement organization’s mission is to leverage operational excellence across Boston Scientific divisions and geographies and assist in the strategic deployment of transformational technology. 

  

The Business Analyst role will be a member of a dynamic team responsible for global transformation of Commercial functionality in the next generation BSC ERP (SAP S/4).  This role will will support gathering global requirements, harmonizing processes and support the cross functional aspects of build, configuration and testing and migration of the key commercial process. 

 

As a member of the team, you will participate in project(s) following Scaled Agile framework.  The Business Analyst represents the Business Users, collaborating with the Magellan and Sales Enablement workstreams, Strategic Integration vendors, BSC Business Process Leads, Subject Matter Experts, Communities of Practice and other Stakeholders across the BSC organization.  

  

Your responsibilities include: 

• Identify the global functionality required for Key commercial process (including but not limited to Customers, Pricing, Rebates, Commercial Bundling, Sales BOMs, Sales Master Data, Product Hierarchy, Customer Hierarchy) within SAP S/4 while keeping an eye towards future state capabilities in Revenue Management initiatives  

• Represent the business users and stakeholders to define User Requirements 

• Translate User Requirements into User Stories that include the ‘Who, What, Why’ for Acceptance Criteria. 

• Coordinate with the other project workstreams, Capability owners, Strategic Integration Vendors, BSC Business Process Leads (BPLs), Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Communities of Practice (CoPs), IT Solution Architects/COE and stakeholders across the organization to develop a strong and deep expertise of Product/Capital Order to Cash process flows. 

• Collaborate with the Change Enablement team and Site Leads/BPLs/SMEs to develop training plans and content for key functionality 

• Collaborate with the Magellan Outbound Workstream and the extended Magellan program (Program Management, IT Solution Architects, SAP COE and Magellan Functional Workstreams) in a Scalable Agile Framework/DevOps methodology, to enable rapid deployment. 

• Support a dynamic team that encourages constructive feedback and open dialogue contributing to team members achieving full potential 

  

What we’re looking for: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Science or supply chain related field required. 

• Technical/functional professional or operational experience and/or SAP Business Process Lead Experience with SAP Order to Cash in medical device field highly preferred. 

• 5+ years Experience with SAP Sales and Distribution  is required.  

• Knowledge of processes, technology in the life sciences industry very highly preferred. 

• Strong knowledge and understanding of commercial strategies and prior working experience in SAP Sales BOM and Commercial Bundled offerings is highly desired. 

• Capital Equipment sales program execution is a plus. 

• Experience managing Seller Hierarchy data and understanding downstream impacts and related systems i.e. Commissions, Salesforce.com, Global sales reporting and MDM is a plus. 

• Experience in BSC Sales Operations, Contracting & Pricing, IT or related commercial functions with a focus on Contracting, Pricing and commercial data is desirable. 

• Previous experience of a major program introduction/upgrade, ideally within an IT/Systems or Business Representative role. 

• Working knowledge of ERP systems and the broader Application Ecosystem and Interfaces, combined with knowledge of key business processes.