Business Systems Analyst - Sales/Marketing

Title: Business Systems Analyst - Marketing Skills: - 3-5 years experience in biotech, pharma, or health care insurance industry, with exposure to Marketing functions and enterprise marketing management requirements; Date: 5-8-2008 Location: South San Francisco, CA Area code: 650 Tax term: CON_W2 Pay rate: Market Length: 6 months Position ID: 255376 Dice ID: atstaff Job description: Only local San Francisco Bay Area candidates!

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Business Systems Analyst with experience implementing enterprise marketing management solutions in the biotech/pharma industries. Must have full lifecycle experience on multiple projects, from requirements gathering through functional specifications/design and user acceptance testing. Specific responsibilities include:
- Collaborate with Project Managers, Architects, Engineers, Developers, and Designers on scope, solutions, constraints, and risks
- Analyze/document current and future business process models
- Analyze/document high-level requirements (scope)
- Analyze/document detailed functional requirements and business rules (use cases)
- Document functional specifications for system features/functions
- Provide requirements tractability throughout project lifecycle
- Analyze/document data requirements (from business needs perspective)
- Support planning of user acceptance test (UAT), including creation of UAT scripts
- Define high-level training approach
- Follow client's PLC methodology; deliverable templates, work-products and toolkits

Skills required:
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills; high level of customer service.
- Ability to rapidly understand business requirements and communicate business expectations to cross-functional development teams.
- Demonstrated ability to manage to a work plan/milestone dates
- Skills to gather and document requirements using process flows, use cases, interviews, workshops, and investigation of current state (existing systems and/or processes).
- Effective communication skills
- Good understanding of the standard project and SDLC methodologies
- Ability to assemble, analyze and evaluate data and to be able to make appropriate and well-reasoned recommendations and decisions to the Business stakeholders and the Project team
- 3-5 years experience in biotech, pharma, or health care insurance industry, with exposure to Marketing functions and enterprise marketing management requirements; experience with Advisory Board and Speaker Services desirable.
- BA/BS in Business or Computer Science, MIS or equivalent experience.