Senior Technical Business Analyst

Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.  

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know.

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we're able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong. 

Job Responsibilities

Job Description

• Identifies and documents emerging business requirements; Questions business partner and knowledge worker preferences to identify unique value drivers
• Capture business requirements, functional and nonfunctional requirements. Create and maintain technical documentation, including specifications, user guides and reports
• Prioritize competing business demands, elicit high-level business requirements, and assess the risks of various solution options to different options.
• Communicate between business units, technology teams, and support teams, aligning the needs of business units with the capabilities delivered by information technology and serves as a "translator" between those groups.
• Manages requirements to meet performance expectations
• Facilitate communication between technical teams and non-technical business stakeholders to ensure alignment and clarity.
• Present ideas in a concise, focused manner. Surface potential impacts of the solution on all stakeholders.  Articulates the role of technology in terms easily understood by business constituencies.
• Mentor and coach junior team members

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Communications or related field.
• Self-starter, proactive, strong-business acumen, excellent follow-through.
• Primary Business Analyst on several medium to large complexity projects. (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to define business requirements and measure / communicate proposed project benefits (preferred)
• Demonstrated knowledge of both traditional Waterfall and Agile/Lean methodologies.
• Experience in converting business requirements and functional requirements to use cases, epics, and user stories with acceptance criteria. (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to engage both developers and business partners to achieve target outcomes
• Excellent written and verbal communications; Solid written and oral presentation skills
• •Ability to keep control of the room in a way that is not off-putting; Natural ability to redirect and refocus conversations with people at different levels when needed
• Ensures and advises business stakeholders by actively initiating and influencing what is needed versus how their needs will be achieved; Ability to drive change
• Analytic Ability: ability to work with data to identify patterns; Uses judgment to form conclusion that may challenge conventional wisdom, and focuses on the crux of issues to identify high leverage intervention points and strategies
• Exhibits high levels of engagement with stakeholders at all levels and understanding high depth of business context
• Proficient with MS Office applications (e.g. Visio, Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.)

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you'll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
 

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.