Business Analyst/Project Manager

Description

Candidates must be 50% onsite at New Brunswick.

This is a Business Analyst/Project Manager role.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8-10+ years Proven experience as a Business Analyst with a strong background in project management.
• 8-10+ years Proficiency in event storming techniques and experience facilitating event storming sessions.
• 8-10+ years MS Project, SharePoint, Excel
• 8-10+ years manufacturing systems LIMS, CeLabs, MES, ERP – SAP
• Solid understanding of software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc.).
• Experience with project management tools such as JIRA, Trello, or Asana.
• Certification in project management (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) is a plus.

Seeking a seasoned professional with proven expertise in both business analysis and project management.

• The ideal candidate will possess a strong track record of successfully bridging the gap between business needs and technical execution, demonstrating the ability to gather and analyze requirements, define project scope, and drive initiatives from conception to completion.
• This dual-role expert should be adept at stakeholder communication, process improvement, and cross-functional team leadership, ensuring that both business objectives and project timelines are consistently met.

Outline of key responsibilities & deliverables: <beyond the typical deliverables and activities as outlined in the Level PM/Program manager position, list any specific responsibilities & deliverables that you want to call out or emphasize. Should also use this space to call out job responsibilities for a hybrid role>

Business Analyst Role:

• Facilitate Event Storming Sessions: Lead and facilitate event storming sessions with cross-functional teams to map out business processes, identify domain events, commands, and aggregates, and collaboratively model complex systems.
• Requirements Gathering: Work closely with stakeholders from various business units to elicit, analyze, document, and prioritize business requirements. Translate business needs into clear and concise user stories, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Data Gathering & Consolidation: Work closely with the project lead to source data from multiple systems, validating its accuracy, and transforming it into meaningful insights to support decision-making and project planning. The candidate should be comfortable working with both structured and unstructured data, and be able to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable outputs.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain accurate project documentation, including meeting minutes, requirements documents, project plans, and status reports. Provide regular updates to project sponsors and stakeholders on project progress and key metrics.
• Quality Assurance: Collaborate with QA teams to define test cases, validate solutions against business requirements, and ensure the quality of delivered software solutions.
• Develop Test Scenarios: Collaborate with product owners, and development teams to identify and define test scenarios based on business requirements. Ensure test scenarios cover all relevant user interactions and system behaviors.
• Write Test Scripts: Write clear, concise, and comprehensive test scripts based on defined test scenarios. Document test steps, expected outcomes, and test data requirements to facilitate test execution.
• Identify Defects: Report and track defects identified during testing using designated defect tracking tools. Work closely with development teams to ensure timely resolution of issues and retest fixes to validate defect resolution.
• Maintain Test Documentation: Update and maintain test scripts, test cases, and other testing documentation to reflect changes in system requirements or enhancements. Keep test documentation organized and accessible for future reference.
• Provide Test Support: Assist in test planning, test estimation, and test data preparation activities as needed. Collaborate with QA analysts, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure effective test coverage and adherence to quality standards.

Project Management Role:

• Manage the planning and execution of medium to large-scale projects, ensuring delivery of intended outcomes while fostering collaboration to refine ideas and identify new requirements, maximizing return on investment.
• Experienced in agile, waterfall & hybrid project management.
• Identify dependencies, evaluate risks, and communicate status to appropriate levels of management and stakeholders across assigned projects.
• Ensure project(s) deliverables, schedules, and financials adhere to established norms and are managed in alignment with departmental best practices across their assigned programs and projects.
• Periodically evaluate performance and develop action plans to ensure achievement of performance goals.
• Monitor and control schedule and financial health of their assigned programs and projects and provide actionable insights to key stakeholders.
• Proactively remove obstacles to drive assigned project’s momentum and progress. Engage and energize the project teams.
• Plan and engage necessary resources across the enterprise to ensure successful completion of assigned projects.
• Actively engage stakeholders and project managers of problem projects to assist with identifying corrective actions.
• Develop weekly & other project status reports per communication plan established by the program manager/delivery lead.                                                           

Experience and Skills: <beyond the typical experience and skills as defined by the Level PM/Program Manager position, list any skills and or experiences that you want to call out/emphasize as critical and elaborate on the attributes of those skills that you want to highlight. Please provide must have skills and experience including technology that will be utilized >

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8-10+ years Proven experience as a Business Analyst with a strong background in project management.
• 8-10+ years Proficiency in event storming techniques and experience facilitating event storming sessions.
• 8-10+ years MS Project, SharePoint, Excel
• 8-10+ years manufacturing systems LIMS, CeLabs, MES, ERP – SAP
• Solid understanding of software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc.).
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience with project management tools such as JIRA, Trello, or Asana.
• Certification in project management (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) is a plus.