Business and Technical Analyst (Agile)
About Astellas:
At Astellas we are a progressive health partner, delivering value and outcomes where needed.
We pursue innovative science, focussing initially on the areas of greatest potential and then developing solutions where patient need is high, often in rare or under-served disease areas and in life-threatening or life-limiting diseases and conditions.
We work directly with patients, doctors and health care professionals on the front line to ensure patient and clinical needs are guiding our development activities at every stage.
Our global vision for Patient Centricity is to support the development of innovative health solutions through a deep understanding of the patient experience. At Astellas, Patient Centricity isn’t a buzzword - it’s a guiding principle for action. We believe all staff have a role to play in creating a patient-centric culture and integrating an awareness of the patient into our everyday working practices, regardless of our role, team or division.
We work closely with regulatory authorities and payers to find new ways to ensure access to new therapies. We deliver the latest insights and real-world evidence to inform the best decisions for patients and their caregivers, to ensure the medicines we develop continue to provide meaningful outcomes.
Beyond medicines, we support our stakeholder communities to drive initiatives that improve awareness, education, access and ultimately standards of care.
The Opportunity:
As a Business and Technical Analyst, you will be a crucial player in driving our digital initiatives in our agile organization. Our agile operating model consists of two components - Digital Capability and Digital Execution. Digital Execution are about aligning multiple missions around business goals and facilitating collaboration on a larger scale. Digital Capability, is focusing on the growth and development of individuals within a specific expertise area. This dual structure enables us to scale agile practices efficiently while maintaining a focus on both product development and individual skill enhancement.
You will be responsible for understanding the needs of the end users and utilising your knowledge and experience in a portfolio of products (GxP and non-GxP) to demonstrate to end users how best to meet their requirements.
You will work with stakeholders to prioritize and translate these requirements into well-defined user stories that the system engineers can rely on to develop, test, and deploy the required changes made to the systems. You possess an analytical and growth oriented mindset adept at interacting with non-technical and technical stakeholders to bring digital needs to life.
Hybrid Working:
At Astellas we recognise the importance of balancing your work and home life, so we offer a hybrid working solution allowing time to connect with colleagues in person at the office alongside the flexibility to work from home; optimising the most productive work environment for you to succeed and deliver.
Key Activities for this role:
- Business Requirements Analysis: Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their needs, goals, and objectives. Analyze business processes and workflows to identify improvement opportunities and define requirements for solutions aligned to their goals and strategy.
- Technical Specification Development: Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications that guide the development of software applications, systems, or processes. Ensure that these specifications meet both the business needs and technical standards.
- Solution Design and Recommendation: Work with Digital and software development teams to design solutions that fulfil business requirements. Evaluate potential technical solutions for feasibility, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with business objectives.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Serve as a liaison between business units and technical teams to ensure clear communication and understanding of project goals, requirements, and constraints. Facilitate meetings and discussions to gather feedback and alignment.
- Epic Management: Applying the Agile framework, lead user story prioritization, sprint planning and tracking progress to meet deadlines and budget constraints.
- Testing and Quality Assurance: Participate in the testing of developed solutions to ensure they meet the defined requirements and standards. Assist in identifying and documenting bugs or issues for resolution.
Essential Knowledge & Experience:
- Relevant experience in business analysis, technical analysis, or a related area, demonstrating a track record of bridging business needs with technical solutions. Business analyst experience must include optimizing the use of an enterprise platform.
- Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand complex business issues and develop appropriate technical solutions
- Technical Knowledge: Good understanding of information technology, software development life cycles, and architectural frameworks. Familiarity with programming languages, databases, and software development tools is beneficial.
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.
- Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a team environment, collaborating with diverse groups of stakeholders, including business users, Digital professionals, and management located across the globe.
- Agile Methodology Knowledge: Working knowledge of Agile methodology, principles and practices and supporting tool.
Preferred Qualification:
- A strong background as a Business Analyst working with enterprise technology.
- Provide analysis of business and user needs, documentation of requirements, issues and gaps, and translation into proper system requirement specifications.
- Facilitate roadmap and strategic direction of capabilities/underlying technology
- Surfacing new requirements, ideas and issues from users and stakeholders and capturing business and user requirements (as stories).
- Demonstrable knowledge of full lifecycle implementations on large enterprise SAAS Applications like SAP, ServiceNow, Walkme, Veeva, Salesforce etc.
- Proven experience in data analytics, including data collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Knowledge of key business processes and how enterprise platforms and systems support these processes.
- Agile Certified / Agile Champion: Adherence to DevOps principles and a proven track record with CI/CD pipelines for continuous improvement and delivery.
Educations/Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in relevant field, e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Business Administration or equivalent.
Additional information:
- This is a permanent role based in our Global Capability Centre in Warsaw, Poland and hybrid working with the expectation for some office presence. Flexibility may be required in line with business need. Candidates must be located within a commutable distance of the office.
Astellas’ Global Capability Centres – Overview
Astellas’ Global Capability Centre’s (GCCs) are strategically located sites that give Astellas the ability to access talent across various functions in the value chain and to co-locate core capabilities that are currently dispersed. Our three GCCs are located in India, Poland and Mexico.
The GCCs will enhance our operational efficiency, resilience and innovation potential, enabling a timely response to changing business demands.
Our GCCs are an integral part of Astellas, guided by our shared values and behaviors, and are critical enablers of the company’s strategic priorities, sustainable growth, and commitment to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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