Sr Associate Business Analyst

Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

ABOUT AMGEN

Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will help digitally transform Amgen's Requisition to Order (R2O) capabilities by being part of the R2O product team. As a Senior Associate Business Systems Analyst within our global Technology team, this role will help evolve the Procure to pay (P2P) capabilities and support transition from our worldwide ERP instance on SAP ECC to the S/4HANA Intelligent Enterprise. Are you a professional with deep technical experience in Global Procurement processes? Come join a team that is passionate about innovation and making life better with technology!

Roles & Responsibilities:

Collaborate with Product Owners and System Architects to manage business analysis activities, ensuring alignment with business and product goals

Understand customer needs to shape business processes and product requirements

Work with Product Managers and customers to define scope and value for new developments

Collaborate with Business SMEs and Product Management to prioritize release scopes and refine the Product backlog

Ensure non-functional requirements are included and prioritized in the Product and Release Backlogs

Facilitate the breakdown of Epics into Features and Sprint-Sized User Stories and participate in backlog reviews with the product team

Clearly express features in User Stories/requirements so all team members and stakeholders understand how they fit into the product backlog

Ensure Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done are well-defined and understood

Stay focused on software development to ensure it meets requirements, providing proactive feedback to stakeholders

Develop and execute effective product demonstrations for internal and external stakeholders

Maintain accurate documentation of configurations, processes, and changes

Basic Qualifications and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree and 5 to 9 years of information systems experience

Must-Have Skills

Experience with writing user requirements and acceptance criteria in agile project management systems such as JIRA

Hands on experience in procurement tools like SAP MM and/or SAP Ariba

Experience with Agile software development methodologies and ability to drive projects using Agile methodology

Provide support to SAP users, including troubleshooting issues and providing training

Good-to-Have Skills:

Experience with stakeholder management, ensuring seamless coordination across teams and driving the successful delivery of technical projects

Experience in managing product features for PI planning and developing product roadmaps

Able to communicate technical or complex subject matters in business terms

Experience of DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery methodology. Experience with Jira Align is a plus

Professional Certifications

SAFe for Teams certification (preferred)

Soft Skills:

Exceptional collaboration and communication skills

High degree of initiative and self-motivation

Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully

Team-oriented with a focus on achieving team goals

Strong presentation and public speaking skills

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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