Senior Business Systems Analyst at Zifo – San Diego, California, United States
Job Description
Zifo is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to add to their team in San Diego. The individual will be responsible to coordinate and support strategic projects for R&D division at Pharmaceutical and Biotech customers. The individual will provide the consulting skills required to analyze customer needs and gaps to propose solutions for the desired state. He or she will have to work with Business Users and Managers of Customers in conjunction with the internal Zifo support team.
Responsibilities:
- Review Business processes and systems
- Provide on site Business Analysis support for scientific groups
- Evaluate Industry trends to identify areas for optimization.
- Develop recommendations and future state strategy
- Perform Gap Analysis, Define Future state process workflows and data models
- Produce and deliver required documents and reports to customers
Required Skills
- Strong Written and Oral communication skills
- Business Analysis Skills
- Requirements elicitation & Use Cases creation
- Technical Writing
- Data Analysis
- Process & Data Modeling
- Data Mining o Cost/Benefit Analysis
- Project Management skills
- Resource & Effort Planning
- Task Planning & Scheduling
- Scope & Time Management
- Vendor Management and Risk Assessment
- Technical Experience
- ELN / LIMS
- JIRA
- Basic Database knowledge
- Lab Instruments
- Data Integration
- Understand SDLC(Agile is preferred), ITIL concepts, Database Design and Data Modeling concepts
- Able to facilitate Scrum ceremonies, prioritize requirements, guide development team and remove blockers.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree or equivalent in Biology, Biomedical engineering, Chemistry, or another area of Life Science
- Strong background in biology and chemistry with lab experience
- Hands-on bench-level research science experience required
- 7-10 years as a Business systems consultant / analyst, preferably in the pharmaceutical life sciences industry
- Hold a solid Understanding of Pharmaceutical Research and Drug Discovery & Development processes and Biologics workflows
A successful Zifo-ite is:
- Independent, Self-Motivated & Results driven
- Willing & able to quickly acquire new Technical Skills & Business Principles
- A critical thinker who possesses logical reasoning
- Curious and always looking for creative solutions to complex problems
