Position: IT Business Analyst
Location: Branchburg, NJ
Duration: 24 Months

About You:

• You are a passionate problem-solver who can understand the business of Real World Evidence (RWE) generation and identify opportunities to streamline the work.
• You empathize with our scientists and can dig into a problem to understand its root causes.
• You do this using a diverse toolkit combining learnings from Six Sigma, project management, human centered design, and design thinking methodologies.
• You are great at asking "why” and "why now”. You understand data and the data landscape and can use that data to inform decisions.
• You can develop and assess solution options for improving business processes and systems.
• You are self-managed and independent, collaborative and adaptable.
• You very much enjoy working in a team.
• You are not afraid to reach out to your team members, clients, stakeholders, etc. to build and foster virtual relationships; your interpersonal skills are impeccable.
• You are inquisitive and like to ask questions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher required – More interested in experience) with at least four years of business analysis experience, with a portion focused on business intelligence (reporting, metrics, analytics, dashboarding).
• Experience with business analysis tools and techniques: process mapping, VOC, survey development, data analysis, persona development, user story generation, requirements gathering, wireframing, options analysis.
• Demonstrated experience is more important than specific degree field.

Required Experience and Skills:

• UAT, SDLC = Skills mismatch – Manager is looking for a resource more focused on the business side - Business requirements.
• Experience mapping current state and future state process workflows.
• At least two years of experience leading small to mid-size projects.
• High level of tech fluency.
• Experience assessing data quality; identifying patterns, trends and issues in data sets.
• Experience with data analysis platforms, such as Spotfire, Appian and Qlik Sense.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including VLOOKUP's, pivot tables and data visualizations.
• Experience developing basic logical data model diagrams.
• Mid-level PowerPoint skills.
• Strong meeting coordination skills.
• You have basic project management and change management skills and can lead the work to develop and implement small-scale solutions and new system features.
• You understand that success is not achieved until solutions are adopted and deliver the expected business benefit.
• You communicate that benefit through qualitative "success stories” and quantitative value evidence.
• Exceptional critical-thinking skills; must be a self-starter.
• Detail-oriented.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Knowledge of healthcare, pharmaceutical and/or Real World Evidence (RWE) domains.
• Experience with Qlik Sense, Appian.
• Project Management certification (e.g. PMP).
• Agile Certification (e.g. PMI-ACP).
• Experience with Jira, Confluence.
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum framework.
• Six Sigma certification.