Business Analyst for Documentation Management

Reference #:
5638SM

LOCATION:
Basel (Switzerland)

START:
ASAP (ideally on 03/08/2015)

DURATION:
12 months

WORKLOAD:
100%

ROLE:
Business Analyst with 5+ years of broad experience in documentation management for pharmaceutical development and health authority submissions. The candidate should be able to act as deputy lead BA for a major system development initiative. Familiarity with working in an agile environment is expected, co-location/face-to-face collaboration with current lead BA in Basel would be preferable because the work involves identifying tacit knowledge which is difficult in remote collaboration.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Identify and formally document "to be" business processes as basis for communication with key business stakeholders and as framework for user stories (diagrams and descriptions)
- Critically review and recommend changes to existing processes in part or in their entirety.
- Demonstrate the impact of new procedures and their effect on the organization.
- Document data flows and sources, identify data conversion or migration needed to support goals and uses in a process.
- Guide the business on creating key messages to be used in change management plans and training material content.

Skills & Experience:
- 5+ years of broad experience in documentation management for pharmaceutical development and health authority submissions

> Good understanding and practical experience with Documentum and its capabilities
> Experience with D2-based Documentum applications
> Experience with the EMC LifeSciences Suite (R&D, eTMF, SSV, Q&M) would be preferred
- Coordinate, support and review work of sub-domain BAs

> Support business responsibles in documenting well defined user stories and related test scenarios
> Extract the business, user and system requirements specifications (functional and non-functional/system behavior) from user stories and document them in a requirements management tool (HP Quality Center)
> Ensure traceability between requirements at various levels
> Coordinate cross-domain aspects and negotiate agreements with domain business leads and QA/QM responsibles
> Common vocabulary and harmonization across the involved business domains
> Security concept and implementation in a multi-domain, multi-tenant system
> Common/shared functional features
> Regulatory requirements
- Contribute to project risk management
- Collaborate to define deployment and business value metrics that can be used to indicate successful roll out and use of new technology.

Language(s):
- Must: Very good speaking, writing and presentation skills in English language for a global audience
- Nice to have: Good German skills