IT Lead Business Analyst

About Pierce, an Oshkosh company

At Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today, you'll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people's lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions.

IT Lead Business Analyst R35259

**This is an in-office role in Appleton, Wisconsin**

The IT Lead Business Analyst will partner with business stakeholders as the liaison between function and technology teams to develop innovative technical solutions to aid in the process and innovation of business functions
 

YOUR IMPACT:

• Optimize business processes and systems for their functional area and act as a liaison for the functional area between IT and the business.
• Utilizing software to optimize business processes and best practices across core business segments.
• Advising stakeholders on the upstream and downstream impacts during solution design, process impacts, and best practices across multiple business processes within the organization
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with business and technical stakeholders, facilitating communication, and ensuring alignment between business requirements and technology solutions.
• Create functional and technical specifications, track requirements, define test scenarios, maintain documentation, and assist in defining and test plans, strategies, and the creation of scripts.
• Contributing to the development of strategic roadmaps and project backlogs, ensuring that technology solutions support the organization's long-term goals and objectives.
• Able to communicate technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Advise best practices across managing artifacts (data model, data maps, knowledge base articles, etc.), educate, and support production team when needed.
• Advanced ability to understand data and provide meaningful, actionable insights to improve business process and outcomes for stakeholders.
• Supporting the planning, execution, and delivery of business analysis projects, ensuring that project goals are met on time and within budget.
• Detail oriented and highly organized engaging with multiple clients and thriving in fast-paced work environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong time-management and prioritization skills, able to multi-task and prioritize competing requirements and meet deadlines.
• Providing guidance, mentorship, and support to business analysts, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
• Advanced ability to assess macro view of business processes impact across systems and applications.
• Identifying proactive opportunities for process improvement and innovation, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and promoting a culture of efficiency and effectiveness.
• Advanced experience in platforms and applications facilitating product owner responsibilities, supporting prioritization of backlog, and historical use case management and best practices.Advanced experience across enterprise platforms and applications with understanding around system limitations, best practices, and citizen development capabilities.
• Demonstrate a learning mindset for Enterprise platforms through pursuing training and certifications on technologies that will benefit Oshkosh team members and related to efforts being led
• Other duties as assigned.
• Regular ONSITE attendance is required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree with five (5) or more years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• Office, PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, Integrations, Data Analysis, ITIL and BA practice knowledge
• Communication, listening, critical thinking, adaptability, relationship building, organization, influencing, problem solving, negotiation, business acumen, strategy, emotional intelligence, leadership.

STANDOUT QUALIFICATIONS:

• Previous Manufacturing Experience
• JD Edwards E1 experience, or similar ERP

WHY PIERCE? 

Moving the future forward is our priority and this includes your future. We encourage professional development and champion our employees’ success through various skills and training opportunities. Na