Senior Business Analyst - Eprocurement

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

Senior Business Analyst with procurement experience and E-procurement applications knowledge:

- Particularly, PEOPLESOFT AND SCIQUEST PURCHASING AND CATALOG MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS.
- Coordinate content across purchasing category groups.
- Act as process steward as content moves through the full life cycle.
- Liaison with buyers regularly to provide updates on how to process new marketplace content.
- Work with outside suppliers and SciQuest to increase the breadth of supply in the marketplace.
- Update process flows for buyer and requester as more process types come on line.
- Manage data in the testing and training environments.
- Participate in enablement calls with suppliers to encourage increase membership.
- Update SQ Org message as required.
- Demonstrate the ability to present and communicate to senior level executives.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

- Ability to determine functional needs and develop solutions based on analysis.
- Ability to evaluate and analyze existing systems, identify deficiencies and understand their structure and component parts.
- Knowledge of information technology hardware/software and its terminology.
- Ability to research for compatibility between hardware, software, and network communications.
- Ability to analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate business processes, upgrade or modify existing systems and review system-wide capabilities.
- Ability to expand or modify systems to serve new purposes or improve workflow.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- MBA, MPA or Masters Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or related field and three years of experience in computer applications, process flow diagrams, which include system requirements, models layouts and systems design and professional procurement/sourcing experience.
- Experience using Peoplesoft Financials 9.0
- Experience using sciQuest
- Procurement/Sourcing experience (E-procurement) in any of the following category areas: Goods, Services, Capital Expenditure or IT
- Prior government procurement experience