Senior Business Analyst BI/BW

For our client, a pharmaceutical company in Switzerland, we are looking for a motivated and ambitious:

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST BI/BW

TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Manage the solution delivery of your business domain, BI solutions for Manufacturing and Site Services.
- Consult your partners in Manufacturing/Site services to find the best analytic solution for their problem to increase efficiency and effectivity of their function.
- Balance innovation with landscape simplicity and thus identify the right BI solution technology including SAP, non-SAP and cloud solutions for the given challenge.
- Collaborate with your partners in Manufacturing/Site services in the best way to ensure an optimized implementation and high level of adoption.
- Guide, coordinate and oversee the development work of your external onsite and offsite BI developers to ensure best design, adherence to standards, quality of work, and robustness of solutions.
- Manage smaller initiatives or work with internal or external project managers on bigger initiatives under your responsibility.
- Oversee the budget of your projects and enhancements and ensure proper cost allocation

MUST HAVES:

- You have 7+ years of professional IT or Business experience in a major, global organization and 5+ years of experience in consulting and development of Business Intelligence solutions with also experience in SAP/BW
- Advanced working experience in reporting tools like SAP Business Objects, or Tableau
- Advanced knowledge of operational business processes in Manufacturing and/or Supply Chain
- Strong analytical skills and a can-do attitude in order to solve complex problems
- Strong consulting, negotiation and influencing skills and ability to communicate to technical & business audience
- Advanced English skills (German skills are of advantage, but is not an absolute must-have)
- International, goal-oriented mindset
- A willingness to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally

NICE TO HAVES:

+++ Former Pharma experience (ideally having worked together with one or more business functions and IT in the past
+++ Successfully worked in international teams, ideally experience with near-shoring or off-shoring partners
++ Experience in project management
++ Experience in visual design and methods and tools to measure usability is considered a plus
+ Experience in Big data and Data Science technologies, such as Hadoop, Predictive Analytics or R is considered a plus
+ Experience working in a regulated environment and with CSV (Computer System Validation) is a plus

START DATE: 13.03.2017
END DATE: 30.06.2017
Location: Basel (initially in Mannheim, Germany) - home office possible prior to agreement 1-2 days/week
TRAVELLING: 20% TRAVELLING