Business Analyst (Pharma Regulatory/Clinical Processes)

Our client, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies based in Basel, is looking for a PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS ANALYST having STRONG UNDERSTANDING of PHARMA REGULATORY and CLINICAL PROCESSES.

This is a contracting role based in Basel and planned to start from beginning of October until the end of November 2018 with extensions opportunities.

Are you an experienced BUSINESS ANALYST with PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE within a PHARMACEUTICAL ENVIRONMENT and currently looking for your next career step?

If so, please have a look at the opportunity we can offer you:

BACKGROUND:

The Office of Technology and Information (OTI) is a business function within Product Development (PD). The OTI offers capacity and skills for PD to drive the modernization of its clinical trials infrastructure. Supporting the OTI Business System Strategy group (OTI-BSS), you will help PD express its longer-term technology needs from a business perspective to facilitate cross-functional collaboration on innovation, simplify our technology infrastructure and enable long-term planning.

TASKS:

As the Business Analyst for OTI's Content Management & Knowledge Management Strategy work, you will have the following responsibilities/duties:

- Provide business analysis and support the Strategy Leader in developing and maintaining Content Management and Knowledge Management strategies & roadmaps
- Participate and support the conduct of strategic/exploratory workshops - principally by preparing the agenda and processing the outputs into strategy frameworks and capability roadmaps
- Establish and maintain relationship with key stakeholders - principally by actively participating in meetings, including presenting aspects of your work and capturing the business needs
- Leads and drives requirements gathering, assessment and scoping of solution options
- Research industry best practices and emerging trends and identification/proposal of solutions

IDEAL PROFILE:

- 5+ YEARS OF BUSINESS ANALYSIS and SUPPORT EXPERIENCE with VARIOUS TYPES OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE METHODOLOGIES
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
- ABILITY TO RAPIDLY UNDERSTAND BUSINESS NEEDS and COMMUNICATE BUSINESS EXPECTATIONS to CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TEAMS
- Ability to work independently on complex business problems, provide innovative solutions that can have a cross-functional impact
- Experience in gathering business requirements and dealing with conflicting requirements
- Proven skills in relationship building, customer-focus, decision-making, and problem solving
- EXPERIENCE WITH BUSINESS CASE CREATION
- Excellent presentation, meeting facilitation and communications skills (written and verbal in English)
- Positive and enthusiastic attitude and interpersonal skills

NICE TO HAVES:

- STRONG UNDERSTANDING of PHARMA REGULATORY and CLINICAL PROCESSES
- Portfolio Management
- Process Knowledge
- BUSINESS ANALYSIS CERTIFICATION (IIBA or equivalent) is a plus
- Experience with conducting business requirements workshops
- Other languages

Please note, we can only consider EU/CH candidates or those with a valid work permit for Switzerland.

Are you interested with this opportunity and would like to have more information? Please get in touch with Florence Wespiser (see below).

Please note that only shortlisted candidate will be contacted.