lead business analyst for a pharmaceutical company

Understand and support prioritized Portfolio and Value Stream work by collaborating with Solution Architect, Business Architect, Product Manager and stakeholders to breakdown features into user stories

Manage the delivery of business value by owning the team backlog, defining stories, establishing story acceptance criteria and leading story refinement for preparation of iteration planning and program increment planning

Provide input and feedback to Epic Owners on new and existing epics, understand stakeholder and customer needs

Review and accept user stories throughout the iteration as developed functionality is completed by the team (develop on cadence)

Work with other Product Owners and the Product Manager to determine impacts and interdependencies with other teams, programs or value streams

Act as customer advocate for team questions and seek out opportunities to connect the team with end users, stakeholders and customers to develop and improve their understanding and empathy of end user needs

Interact with stakeholders during iteration demos, or individually, to show the most critical aspects of a solution and negotiate the reality of systems solutions

Collaborate with Product Manager to provide input to the Program Vision and Roadmap

Collaborate with Product Manager, Release Management, stakeholders, and team to define and plan for releases (Release on Demand)

Participate in the iteration demo and retrospective meetings to inspect and adapt the product or solution for the next iteration and the team’s process for improvements in how they work to build solution increments

Work with the team to ensure features, stories, and tasks are entered, maintained, and tracked in required Agile tooling solutions

5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst

1+ years of relevant leadership experience

Demonstrated ability to understand complex ideas, break them down into smaller, sequential plan, while understanding interdependencies to deliver solutions

Uses solutions based thinking in problem solving, asking probing questions and looking for underlying issues

Strong influencing skills to guide a team to understand Program Features and the impact to the story and iteration deliverables

Strong influencing skills with customers and Product Managers to understand the system and iteration capabilities for deliverables

Strong verbal and written communication skills necessary to develop stories and to inform team and stakeholders

Business acumen and ability to understand the larger company strategy

Software skills, including use of Microsoft Office and web-based applications