Overview
business systems analyst with experience supporting manufacturing and enterprise systems within global, multi-site environments. Proven ability to bridge business operations and information technology by translating complex manufacturing, quality, and operational needs into clear, testable, and traceable requirements. Strong collaborator with quality assurance (qa) and process / production / program analysts (pa) to ensure solutions are aligned with business intent, system capabilities, and validation expectations.
demonstrated expertise in conducting business analysis needs assessments, gap analysis, and current-state vs. future-state evaluations to recommend effective and scalable it solutions that support manufacturing operations. Experienced in performing preliminary cost/benefit analysis and risk assessments to align technology initiatives with business objectives and operational constraints.
actively collaborates with qa during system and user acceptance testing (uat), ensuring defects and gaps are identified early and resolved effectively. Partners with pa and operational stakeholders to ensure user stories accurately reflect manufacturing processes, data flows, and operational scenarios.
acts as a key participant during system implementation and deployment, supporting cutover activities, user training, and post-go-live stabilization. Serves as an escalation point for complex issues, performing root cause analysis and producing clear technical and functional documentation for ongoing support and continuous improvement.
proactively contributes to process improvement initiatives, sharing best practices across teams and sites and identifying opportunities to improve analysis standards, documentation quality, and collaboration between business analysis, qa, and technical teams. Operates with a structured, pragmatic, and process-driven approach in alignment with company standards and manufacturing excellence principles.
responsibilities
* implementation support: go-live readiness, stabilization, issue escalation
* collaborate with qa and pa to ensure alignment with business intent, system capabilities, and validation expectations
* lead requirements elicitation and documentation (brds, functional specifications, use cases, user stories, business process models, ui wireframes)
* conduct needs assessments, gap analyses, and current/future-state evaluations; perform preliminary cost/benefit analysis and risk assessments
* ensure requirements are verifiable and validated; support test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria; participate in uat
* maintain requirements lifecycle management: traceability, prioritization, change control, impact analysis
* support system implementation, cutover activities, user training, and post-go-live stabilization
* act as escalation point for complex issues and produce final documentation for support
* promote process improvements and cross-team collaboration
* work within azure devops to manage and track user stories, features, defects, and tasks with full traceability
qualifications
* experience supporting manufacturing systems (mes, quality systems, integrations, reporting) in global, multi-site environments
* strong requirements elicitation, documentation, and modeling skills; ability to produce brds, functional specs, use cases, and ui wireframes
* proven ability to translate business needs into clear, testable, and traceable requirements
* experience driving validation readiness and collaboration with qa and validation teams
* familiarity with alm/agile tooling, especially azure devops; capable of sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release tracking
* stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration across manufacturing, quality, it, and operations
* structured, pragmatic, process-driven approach aligned with manufacturing excellence principles
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