Business Analyst Job

BUSINESS ANALYST needed for a contract opportunity with Yoh's client located in Creve Coeur, Missouri.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

- Interact successfully as part of a team with software developers, technical architects, test engineers, and support personnel to develop requirements and produce innovative, high quality products.
- Develop a thorough and direct understanding of supported business functions, will develop relationships within the technical and business teams, and will drive product development.
- Work in a liaison relationship with our multi-functional, multi-crop Technology and Commercial organizations, as well as our information technology organization.
- Work directly with business partners to define and document requirements, design processes, define limitations, develop and implement solutions.
- Coordinate and contribute to all areas of the project life cycle from planning, development, and production implementation through post-implementation support. Partner with client's business functions and User Networks to translate business requirements into a fully functioning IT design.
- Elicit, define, gain consensus on, and manage requirements using techniques such as facilitated workshops, individual interviews, prioritization exercises, and sponsor validation.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING TO THE TABLE:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Biotechnology, Biology, Agronomy, Breeding or other related degree.
- Five (5+) years of Business Analysis experience or Science related field.
- Ability to interface with all levels of an organization
- Able to understand the opportunities, identify systems solutions, and define requirements for software development.
- Possess advanced analytical skills
- Intermediate level understanding of Microsoft Office products including Visio, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Proven ability to interface comfortably at various levels of the organization.
- Ability to influence others and drive toward consensus.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to understand the opportunities, identify systems solutions, and define requirements for software development.
- Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills, proficiency in team communication and working as an effective team member.
- Detail oriented, able to multitask and meet deadlines.

BONUS POINTS! OTHERWISE KNOWN AS PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- MBA, MS or PhD in MIS/IS, Agronomy, Plant Breeding, Molecular Breeding, Plant Science, Genetics, Statistics, or Chemistry.
- Previous work experience in a biotechnology or agricultural industry.
- Knowledge of biotechnology or commercial agricultural seed product management.
- Experience working in an Agile environment and as part of a scrum team.
- Understanding of relational databases and query tools.
- Experience creating and documenting detailed requirements, user stories/specification by example, business processes, fit/gap analysis, and business cases for IT software or systems.
- Ability to identify system solutions as well as communicate functional design specifications.
- Reconcile input from multiple sources to build and drive the feature development plan for an application or suite of research applications.

GET HIRED, APPLY NOW!

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