[Remote] Manager, Business Analysis - Strategic Business Solutions PMO

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global leader in serving science, and they are seeking a Manager, Business Analysis to drive strategic business solutions. The role involves detailed analysis of strategic opportunities, process improvement initiatives, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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
• 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
• Contract Research Organization (CRO) industry experience is highly preferred

Benefits

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan
• A wellness program, and valuable health incentive opportunities for company contributions to a Health Reimbursement Accounts (HSAs) or Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Tax-advantaged savings and spending accounts and commuter benefits
• Employee assistance programs
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO). 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, short- and long-term disability, and volunteer rime off in accordance with company policy.
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• A variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy

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