Business Analyst

Founded in 2001, Trace One is behind the world's largest collaborative network dedicated to the development of private label products from concept to production to market, with more than 20,000 companies in over 100 countries, developing the equivalent of $300 billion worth of private label products every year.

Recognized worldwide, our platform connects people, information and technology to improve collaboration, speed-to-market and sustainability.

Our goal : to enable our customers to create and innovate outstanding products, drive growth and prosper in new markets.

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Context

As a Business Analyst, you are responsible for the innovative business and functional requirements lifecycle, including the requirements collection from various stakeholders, the business and functional requirements definition and design, the requirements alignment and harmonization, their prioritization based on the product vision, and the development monitoring through the methodology applied for each project.

You oversee the software implementation iterations making sure that practices, rules, and values are understood, and behaviors are compliant with Trace One methodology.

You ensure that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone in the project team.

Responsibilities

• Lead workshop sessions with the customer to capture requirements and effectively document them.
• Act for multiple projects at the same time according to the statements of work.
• Deliver elements of systems design, including data migration rules, business rules, prototype, or other detailed deliverables.
• Work closely with the PS, Regulatory, and other departments to design the solution for the given requirements and meet the project constraints.
• Is responsible, together with the Enterprise Solution Architect, of the design of the solution (through the Business Blueprint document) for the project.
• Refine and document detailed user requirements, provide clarity for the Development and QA functions.
• Work with Project teams to enforce best practice implementations and optimizing core product reuse. Specifically, refining requirements with Professional Services team members (and end customers where appropriate) to provide functional clarity and relevance.
• Validate the product in the development phases following the methodology defined for each project.
• Support the QA testing processes effort, including development of user acceptance criteria.
• Support training efforts for Services, Sales, and Marketing departments.
• Develop and provide PLM solution expertise.
• Assist with the business case definition for innovation proposals.
• Work with the Product Owner and others to clearly understand and document the customer requirements associated business processes and behaviors.
• Support Sales department and SI in pre-sales RFI, RFP related activities.
• Work with third-party entities such as system integrators and consulting companies.

Core Competencies

• Demonstrated outstanding written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills
• Ability to conduct demonstrations of the software and maintain the communication at the business and functional level
• Self-starter with leadership skills to take charge of or facilitate requirement-gathering sessions
• Ability to manage own project
• Quick learner on new products, systems, applications, and technologies
• Able to work well with both internal and external clients, including the ability to proactively participate in user group workshops
• Analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
• Willing to travel to customer premises
• Experience in PLM software implementations

Education Expertise

• 3 years+ experience in preparing functional requirements, working with use cases, business process modelling, and preparing use-case or sequence diagrams
• Knowledge of the full Product Life Management
• Knowledge of and experience in the use software design and modelling tools (e.g. UML etc.)
• Fluent in English

Expected to travel abroad, mainly in EU & APAC area.