Business Analyst

Job Title : Business Analyst
Job Location:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Job duration: 6months
Job Description:

• Client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to provide partnering support and lead establishment of a new digital LIMS capability within our East Coast early discovery research community.
• In support of the Client or Celgene Integration, IT has recently deployed a COTS LIMS system for the Thematic Research Center (TRC) teams to capture experimental data from laboratory instruments, perform analyses, and create reports across experiments.
• The integrated digital capabilities enable sample and reagent registration, tracking of inventory, and instrument file management.
• The solution will also be used as an approved Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) for work enabling Client' Mechanisms of Cancer Resistance (MoCR) initiatives.
• Through a concentrated effort, Client is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to provide business partnering support, stakeholder husbandry, change management, hypercare analysis, and coordination with technical support teams to establish the new capability within the TRC discovery community.
• The Senior BA will drive the realization of value from the new system; shepherding users out of the legacy bespoke solutions using excel spreadsheets, PRISM, and heritage ELNs.
• The Senior BA will also measure and assess the realization of proposed qualitative and quantitative benefits vs the original project investment targets; identifying gaps or surpluses.
• The Senior BA will communicate to Senior Leadership the overall success of the effort and propose and execute on approaches to ensure maximum value is materialized.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Informatics team and scientific groups to plan Business Analysis or Business Partnering activities
• Provide business partnering support and management of the beneficiaries of the new digital capability
• Coordinate stakeholder assessments and management of stakeholders or sponsors
• Contribute towards and lead the Change Management Plan; partner with Informatics CM experts for training and onboarding needs
• Monitor and analyze hyper-care support needs; ensure support teams are focused on business priorities
• Update business processes and maps; reflecting the new "As-Is" state
• Collaborate with Informatics teams, subject matter experts, and stakeholder scientific groups to understand the experiments, workflows, and datasets that are now supported by the capability. Understand gaps outstanding from the new capabilities.
• Direct or tangential opportunities for IT to enhance the productivity and insight of MoCR should be captured and documented.
• Identify instances where existing processes may be streamlined or improved.
• Asses the delivered value vs. proposed value; understand and communicate the value realization gap.
• As needed, devise and execute on approaches to maximize value.
• Facilitate corporate IT changes that impact MoCR and serve as an advocate for MoCR needs
• Manage and maintain all requirements materials and traceability matrices
• Devise and execute a communication strategy in support of project adoption and uptake. Lead Senior Leadership reporting and communications.

Generate cohesive documentation of:

• Stakeholder maps, personas of Users
• Update Business Processes maps and Systems Process maps
• Record outstanding User Requirements or User Stories; Functional or Non-Functional requirements
• Change Management Plan
• Updates to the IT Support Plan
• Hypercare Analysis (e.g. Incident Pareto charts; uptake insights, etc.)
• Value Assessment Analysis or Value Realization planning

Skills Required:

• At least 8 years of prior experience working in an analyst capacity on large and/or complex projects in the BioPharmaceutical Industry
• Familiarity with Drug Discovery in early Research and Development; ideal resources have a working knowledge of Life Sciences Biology
• Demonstrated partnerships working between scientific and technological roles to create digital solutions.
• Relevant expertise in the application of IT capabilities to drive business value in a Research and Early Development domain.
• Proven ability in gathering, tracing, translating and managing complex requirements, business rules, and data
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including technical writing or documentation; organizes and presents ideas in a convincing and compelling manner
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams; able to provide technical leadership
• Outgoing personality; self-starter able to work interactively and independently with stakeholders
• Possess strong business acumen; possess a broad, enterprise-wide view and understanding of strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D in a relevant scientific or technical domain
• Experience with process modeling tools (ARIS, Visio, etc.) to identify, capture, define, and analyze business processes
• Strong proficiency in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
• Experience in Agile development or Agile product management teams.
• Lean Thinking or Six Sigma educated a plus.
• CBAP or CCBA Certification a plus
• Experience w/the Sapio Sciences LIMS platform a plus