Senior Business Analyst (Experience 6 To 10+ years)

Springer Nature; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Springer Nature in Pune, India, is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join the Researcher Communications team within SN Digital. You will plug into a cross-functional agile delivery team, translating business needs into actionable requirements and partnering with stakeholders across the organization.

You will use analysis tools and data analytics to inform decisions, map information flows, and support product delivery in a diverse, inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Ability to translate business needs into clear requirements.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to understand goals and identify business needs through strong insight.
• Orchestrate collaboration within the team and with stakeholders while balancing priorities.
• Explain requirements to developers with clear storytelling and mapping to business value.
• Collaborate with product manager and SMEs during development.
• Uncover root causes and validate opportunities using data analytics where relevant.
• Prioritise competing demands and obtain stakeholder buy-in.
• Map and improve information flows within a complex organization.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Data analytics

Tools

Jira

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst

Location: Pune, India

We are looking for a talented and passionate Senior Business Analyst to join our Researcher Communications team in SN Digital (SND), a technology division of Springer Nature.

The team supports researchers in discovering relevant content,identifyingopportunities to publish,and staying up to date on the impact of their work through a seamlessmulti-channel communication experience. This work drives key business goalsto grow content consumption and submissions.

About Springer Nature

Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of research in the world. We publish the largest number of journals and books and area pioneerin open research. Through our leading brands, trusted for more than 180 years, we provide technology-enabled products, platforms and services that help researchers to uncover new ideas and share their discoveries, health professionals to stay at the forefront of medical science, and educators to advance learning. We are proud to be part of progress, working together with the communities we serve to share knowledge and bring greater understanding to the world. For more information, please visitabout.springernature.comand @SpringerNature.

About Us

SN Digital has 230 people based in London, Berlin, Lisbon, Pune, New York, Madrid, Dordrecht, and Heidelberg. We work in collaborative, multi-disciplinary delivery teams, developing digital products and services that answer user problems and support business goals.

The work is exciting and meaningful.

Our culture is collaborative and friendly.

We encourage and support growth, both personal and professional.

Having a good command of English is essential; collaboration is vital in ourday to daywork, so being able to communicate your ideas and understand others is critical.

This role is a terrific opportunity for friendly, curious people who want to get involved in our work, who love to learn, who will embrace and develop our culture, and help make SND a place where people and ideas can thrive.

We are intentionally looking to create teams that are diverse and inclusive. Diversity is the mix of culture, background,experienceand personality that we all bring; inclusion is getting the mix to work better together. We want every team member to contribute to our shared goals while respecting each other's skills,knowledgeand needs.

The way we do business

We build our software incrementally, iteratively, and continuously, soyoullbe able to see new work go live to over four million visitors around the globe every week. Ourflavourof agile has been heavily influenced by XP and Kanban, and if somethingisntworking, we change it.

Our work delivers value to both the business and our customers, our teams are cross-discipline: business analysts and the user experience team work with stakeholders to coordinate research and understand requirements, whilst ourfrontend developers and software engineers pair with quality analysts to develop the most robust solutions, and our platform engineers work across theorganisationto ensure our infrastructure never lets us down.

Wegenerally followa mix of agile and lean practices with an overall philosophy towards continuous delivery.We’llrely on each and everyone’sexpertiseto adapt and improve these processes to serve the team, project and company as best fit their current contexts.

Visitsndigital.springernature.comto learn more about who we are and what we do.

About the role

In this role, you will be part of a cross-functional agile delivery team,leveraginganalysis tools to inform decisions that support both businessobjectivesand user needs. You will collaborate closely with both your team and business stakeholders to understand complex business problems, defineworkandidentifykey opportunities.

Our teams are diverse, with members from various backgrounds and nationalities. Together, we work to create solutions that not only meet the business goals of Springer Nature but also provide tangible value to our users.

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to understand our goals & vision, andidentifybusiness needsthrough strong business insight
• Orchestrate collaboration within the team and externally with business stakeholderswhile balancing competing stakeholder priorities
• Communicate to the development team how the requirements are aligned with the business needs and “big picture” goals and visionusing clear storytelling techniques
• Collaborate and provide business analysis support to the product manager, business sponsors,SMEsand the team during development
• Unearth the root cause(s) of pain points, andvalidatebusiness opportunities and problemsusing data analytics and quantitative analysis whererelevantas a tool
• Prioritisecompeting demands and obtaining buy-in from stakeholders
• Map,analyseandvalidateinformation flows within a complexorganisationalsettingand contribute to process and system design improvements
• Plan,organiseand lead workshops that generate ideas and resolve problems
• Champion business analysis best practices and principles within the BA community
• Challenge and influence decisions; focusing on customer and business value
• Monitoring,trackingand communicating progress and issues relating to the projectas a wholeapplyingproject ment practices
• Capturing information in teams Jira and ensuring they are kept up to date what you will be doing
• Develop an understanding of the technology stack, systemcapabilitiesand data landscape to support effective solution delivery

Within 3 Months, you will:

• Strengthen team ceremonies conducted regularly, adding value to the delivery process.
• Have an understandingofthe team’s context in the broaderprogrammeand business.
• Havedeveloped relationships with team members and core stakeholders.
• Be familiar with the technology stack and data landscape
• Can co-plan,organiseand lead group sessions that generate ideas and resolve problems.
• Can unearth the root cause(s) andvalidatebusiness opportunities and problems.
• Be an active participant of the Business Analystcommunities.

By 3-6 months, you will:

• Have a clear understanding of the team’s priorities and be able to communicate this to stakeholders.
• Build relationships with key providers and dependent teams.
• Be able tomonitor, track and communicate progress,risksand issues to stakeholders.Be able toprioritisecompeting demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders.
• Map,analyseandvalidateinformation flows and user journeys to and from the product/service digital estate.