Manager, Business Analysis – Strategic Business Solutions PMO

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Conducts thorough and sometimes complex evaluations of strategic opportunities and initiatives for cost savings.

• Records and conveys recommendations to stakeholders to facilitate critical decision-making.

• Plays a pivotal role in defining vendor or IT system requirements and designing process enhancement initiatives.

• May perform peer reviews of work to ensure adherence to quality standards.

• Engages in the definition of PMO best practices and initiatives for continuous improvement.

• Builds relationships with business users to comprehend their processes and identify problem areas.

• Creates visual representations of current (As-Is) and future (To-Be) scenarios to enhance communication with both business and senior management, aiming to optimize processes and enable automation where feasible.

• Capable of quantifying the workload, pinpointing key stakeholders, and estimating potential benefits for consideration by senior management.

• Gathers precise, detailed, and comprehensive requirements from a diverse range of business users.

• Documents and organizes requirements in a manner that is clear to the business, developers, and testing teams.

• Assists in requirements planning and evaluates the level of effort involved.

• May support discussions on technical feasibility, prototype development, and the design of efficient, adaptable, and scalable solutions.

• Identifies specific proof of concepts that can be developed to aid the understanding of the effort needed for full implementation.

• Aids in evaluating vendor/IT proposals and identifying gaps to facilitate informed decision-making within the business.

• Supports PMO and business leadership in comprehending complex initiatives and solutions.

• Collaborates with the broader PMO team to identify enhancements to practices for potential adoption across the group.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent and relevant academic/vocational qualification.

• Prior experience that equips the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for the role (approximately 7+ years).

• Over 3 years in a senior business analysis position.

• Demonstrated business analysis capabilities.

• Experience in the Contract Research Organization (CRO) industry is highly preferred.

• Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies.

• Proficient in process improvement and strategic development, particularly in relation to clinical trials, clinical development, and project management.

• Technical and systems proficiency, including effective use of applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams; experience with requirements management systems such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar is a plus.

• Proven adaptability and ability to effectively prioritize workload with leadership support.

• Strong judgment, decision-making, and problem-solving skills, along with the capability to apply critical and analytical strategic thinking to navigate complex or ambiguous situations.

• Proactive, solutions-oriented, and experienced in risk identification.

🏝️ Benefits

• A selection of national medical and dental plans, as well as a national vision plan.

• A wellness program and valuable health incentive opportunities for company contributions to Health Reimbursement Accounts (HSAs) or Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).

• Tax-advantaged savings and spending accounts, along with commuter benefits.

• Employee assistance programs.

• A minimum of 120 hours of 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 time off in accordance with company policy.

• Retirement and savings programs, including our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan.