Senior Tech Business Analyst

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
 
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
 
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 building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Requirements Elicitation:   Identifies and documents emerging business requirements; Questions business partner and knowledge worker preferences to identify unique value drivers
• Requirements Management and Analysis:  Properly prioritizes business line and enterprise demands; Accurately translates business requirements into functionality; Manages requirements to meet performance expectations
• Creating a Compelling Business Case:  Understands industry-specific trends that impact the organization; Clearly articulates benefits in business language; Accurately measures the contribution of IT projects to business value
• Providing Accurate Project Effort Estimates:  Manages ambiguity and creates accurate project effort estimates; Accurately quantifies project-specific risks through the development lifecycle
• Architecture Management:  Identifies solution interdependencies; Stays abreast and creates awareness of technology developments related to a business problem; Identifies commonalities and suggests a consistent approach across projects in the absence of standards
• Designing for Usability:  Engages with knowledge workers in their normal day to-day environment; Effectively conveys knowledge workers’ preferences to business partners and design teams
• Communications and Change Leadership:  Guides team decision making; Provides business partners with an accurate view of challenges to end-user buy-in
• Business Relationship Management:  Adjusts customer expectations in accordance with changes in scope; Effectively navigates conflict between multiple business partners; Tailors business partner engagement to business sponsor risk and value preferences
• Design Team Relationship Management:  Creates a vision of project success that drives team engagement; Shares best practices and process and environmental knowledge

Essential Competencies

• Influence: Ensures and advises business stakeholders by actively initiating and influencing what is needed versus how their needs will be achieved
• Analytic Ability: Works with data to identify patterns; Uses judgment to form conclusions that may challenge conventional wisdom, and focuses on the crux of issues to identify high leverage intervention points and strategies
• Communication: Exhibits high levels of engagement with stakeholders and understanding high depths of business context
• Business Results Orientation: Seeks to understand the business needs and deliver prompt, efficient, quality service

Learning Agility: Rapidly acquires new knowledge and learns new skills

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.
 

http://www.syneoshealth.com

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.