Safety Business Analyst in Welwyn Garden City

As a Safety Business Analyst (BA), you will be responsible for scoping, planning and supporting the successful implementation of process automation solutions by providing business analysis, best practice research, detailed requirements and user stories definition and user acceptance facilitation. You will work closely with Business Users, Product Owners, Product Managers, IT Business Partners and IT Architects to develop a conceptual architecture for the solutions.

The Safety BA is an active role in the product's lifecycle management. The primary focus is to ensure that a solution is chosen to fulfil known and understood business requirements, fitting into the Product roadmap definitions and continuously providing business value over its lifecycle.

What you'll be working on:

• Actively engage with IT Product Manager and IT Business Partner in the portfolio management processes.
• Lead and drive the scoping phase of automation use cases. Collaborate with business and informatics stakeholders to lead the business case development for new initiatives including high level solution options and resource estimates.
• Translate the IT enabled business strategy developed by the C-Pod into an Informatics context and work with IT Product Managers, IT Business Partners and IT Architects to develop project proposals and roadmaps that support the strategy.
• Support the business partner and IT Business Partner to obtain project approval from the portfolio committees.
• Drive the identification of the most appropriate solution for Roche through formal RFI/RFP/RFQ processes. Evaluate feasibility of potential solutions in collaboration with business users and Subject Matter Experts.
• Prepare mandatory deliverables supporting the PMM "initiate" and "define" phases together with the Project Manager.
• On the basis of identified business needs, establish user requirements and any related documentation as required by PMM.
• Participate in Squads working on significant enhancements to understand business needs and translate them into requirements.
• Strive for harmonization of business processes across sites and departments by propagating common standardized data models, applications and technologies that are in line with the cross-functional or functional Informatics strategies and architectures.
• Drive cross functional teamwork by collaborating with BAs within Chapter and across Org Units to continuously harmonize and further develop skills and working practices specific to the BA community.
• Determine the automation potential of each particular process in order to filter out those unfit for automation to narrow down the scope of work.
• Drive definition of KPIs and compare the expected results to the actual ones to ensure automation is bringing the expected value in terms of acceleration or quality increase.
• Adopt Agile delivery methodologies to speed up user feedback cycles and E2E delivery timelines.
• Create automation architecture and solution proposals.
• Develop RPA and BPA prototypes, mockups and Proofs of Concept.

The ideal candidate:

• Has Bachelor / Master of Science in Computer Science, engineering, Biostats, etc.
• Has domain knowledge of the pharmaceutical, Pharma Development or Life Science industry, or from a consulting firm.
• Has extensive experience with large projects (>1M projects, large number of stakeholders, multi locations/global footprint, complex enterprise solutions).
• Has excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Always demonstrates Leadership in assignments, able to engage a team towards ambitious goals.
• Leads business analysis activities in multiple projects/programs: fully accountable for BA approach and plan, BA deliverables, lead BAs (1-5 within the team), influence Project Management, make decisions on behalf of business.
• Exhibits strong soft skills typically required as a BA (i.e., active listening, challenging the status quo, ability to communicate complex information, issues, and potential solutions to stakeholders).
• Has excellent knowledge & experience with BA practices.
• Exhibits intellectual curiosity and integrity and has strong passion to bring value-adding technology to the business.
• Has experience working in agile environments and exhibits a mindset in the approach to enable a diverse group of partners to speak with a single voice.
• Ensures the right information is available to the development team in the right level of detail at the right time so that the product can be developed.
• Experience in building RPA (Robotics Process Automation) and BPA (Business Process Automation) solutions (i.e. UiPath, Pega).
• Identification and recommending of appropriate automation technology platforms best suited for client requirements.

At Roche Products we believe diversity drives innovation and we are committed to building a diverse and flexible working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability or age. We recognise the importance of flexible working and will review all applicants' requests with care. At Roche, difference is valued and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work.