Business Analyst R&D

• Manages implementation of major upgrades across the R&D and SBU lab enterprise; ensures backup/recovery, security, configuration management, and apt “help desk” support. 

• Works closely with business and IT Quality functions to maintain GxP compliance and perform validations.

• Identifies avenues for continuous improvement for lab computing services within scope of responsibility, including new approaches and processes that would contribute both to improvements within department and to business growth/efficiency in the wider organization.

• Manages the technology requirements of new lab builds, lab moves and site consolidations.

• Manages strategic communications around lab computing services, processes, technology and performance.

• Manages requirements gathering, prioritization and negotiation with business stakeholders in order to ensure the total solution delivered meets or exceeds expectations.

• Maintains and influences business process design; validates and interprets business needs by conducting feasibility studies and drafting business cases.

• Solves unique and complex problems with a broad impact on the business and interprets ways of prioritizing opportunities to streamline business and/or system processes.

• Uses knowledge of business operations, investigates and identifies operational needs, problems and opportunities and uses Business Process Mapping to phrase and manage requirements or organizational improvements.

• Provides leadership to project team to deliver mid-size and moderate complex system implementations, within cross functional projects that allow the business to reach its strategic objectives in a cost effective way. Makes decisions that impact, the work of employing organizations, achievement of organizational objectives or/and financial performance.

• Has authority and responsibility for a significant area of work, including technical, financial and quality aspects and may represent the organization.

• Ensures documentation according to Takeda Quality Management System (QMS), Software Development Life Cycle and Project Life Cycle standards.

• Ensures delivered solutions are compliant with associated federal regulations (SOX, OFCCP, labour laws, GMP, GxP, GCP, etc.).

• Is a subject matter expert in the business area of expertise and actively shares emerging industry standards/trends with customers and peers.

• Issues POs for lab computing goods/services and reconcile invoices.

Required:

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent 5 years or more of relevant experience.

• Ability to write, speak and lead in the English language.

• Excellent oral and written communications skills, business acumen with problem solving and analytical skills.

• Professional in depth knowledge of business processes in pharmaceutical industry within functional area.

• Knowledge of business and system solutions and experience with implementing applications.

• Experience in Business Analysis and Project Management.

• Experience in Stakeholder relationship management.

• Experience in communicating complex information in a clear and engaging manner, adjust form and meetings to this and builds collaborative network of relationships in the business area and outside.

• Experience in presenting on conferences and business meetings.

Preferred:

• Master Degree.

• Experience in managing people.

• Experience with regulated systems – good level of understanding of system validation.