Job Description

Product Business Analyst, Legal Product Line - Legal, Compliance & Security Value Team

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where our company has codified its 130-year legacy. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

We know that our people are the key to our success, which is why our team works to attract, develop, retain, and inspire our people so that they can learn, grow and make a true impact on the world. Together we collaborate to create a culturally rich, diverse organization ensuring we remain innovative and agile.

We are looking for an energetic, self-starter to join our Enterprise Information Technology team to help us identify and deliver business solutions, in partnership with IT colleagues and Legal business stakeholders. These critical functions operate at a global scale, supporting our business in over 130 countries.

The Product/Business Analyst is a key role within the Legal Compliance & Security Value team. This individual will be responsible for analyzing business needs and working closely with stakeholders to develop digital and technology solutions that drive business outcomes for the Offices of the General Counsel.

Key Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Business process mapping - lead efforts in mapping existing business processes to identify areas for improvement and automation, ensuring alignment with stakeholders.

• Gather insight into user journey, behavior, motivation, and pain points. Expose unarticulated problems and unmet needs.

• Translate business process requirements into technical requirements, requirements gathering, investigate with a problem-solving mind-set, and facilitate the "how" along with our IT partners, service providers, and cross-functional teams.

• Develop clear, actionable documentation of user stories and functional requirements that will guide engineering/development teams in creating effective solutions.

• Support project execution and product delivery by managing timelines and deliverables.

• Participate in the development and execution of training programs for stakeholders.

• Partner with business stakeholders on the development of business cases to support the justification for advancing our portfolio, undertaking a project, including the benefit, cost and risk of alternative options, and rationale for the preferred solution.

• Lead the planning, designing, and assist the business on the coordination of testing activities and business change management, as part of overall solution implementation.

• Assess the current state solutions and support development of roadmaps to deliver greater business value and maintain a secure and modern technology landscape.

• Demonstrate ability to independently solve problems that arise within job responsibility and expectations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in business analysis, product management, or a related field.

• Good understanding of business processes and the ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.

• Experience working with legal teams.

• Good understanding of legal e-billing processes, SAP, and source to settle.

• Experience with developing various types of requirements and user stories.

• Growth mind-set. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.

• Experience with basic user-focused design techniques.

• Understanding of how to apply organizational change management principles.

• Familiarity with agile methodologies and tools such as JIRA.

• Experience working within a product management organization.

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Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as "remote".

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Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.

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Requisition ID:R338431