Analyst, Business Systems

BioSpace; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Short-term incentive programs

Job summary

AbbVie in North Chicago, IL seeks a Business Systems Analyst to contribute to the development, maintenance and enhancement of critical business applications. The role focuses on managing applications, data, performance and accessibility, delivering improvements that boost productivity across systems.

You will collaborate with functional areas, document user requirements, develop specifications, test changes, and support training.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to lead and facilitate meetings with customers and technical staff.
• Deliverables-focused and detail-oriented.
• Strong teamwork and customer focus.
• Experience with system development, implementation and operations of enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Consults with functional areas to understand business needs and impact on the system.
• Develops detailed business requirements, system docs, workflows and data models.
• Negotiates plans, timelines and trade-offs with clients.
• Produces mainframe/ERP reporting requirements and ad-hoc analyses.
• Coordinates testing and training; ensures system documentation is up-to-date.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Verbal & written communication

Meeting facilitation

Deliverables oriented

Teamwork & customer focus

Education

Bachelor's degree + 2 yrs or Master's in IS/related

Job description

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

Purpose

Describe the primary goals, objectives or functions or outputs of this position.

The Business System Analyst are individual contributors to the development, maintenance and enhancement of business applications, providing specialized technical or business knowledge to system projects. The position has the responsibility for the management of applications and data residing in the application. The Business Systems Analyst maintain the application’s data and monitor performance and accessibility. The position will be instrumental in the development, identification and implementation of system modifications that will improve productivity within the system(s).

Responsibilities

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Consults with functional areas to develop understanding of the varied and complex business needs supported by the system. Responsible for determining how changing business needs will affect the system. Understands the role of the system in the big picture and provides ideas and recommendations regarding the evolution of the system.
• Responds to questions and influences the users regarding current and potential system inputs, processes, and outputs. Conducts research and analysis into the nature, effect and results of system problems. Develops detailed business user requirements, system documentation, work flow procedures, and data modeling. Negotiates plans, time frames and trade-offs while ensuring client understands the final results of the project.
• Reviews and routes requested system changes and develops detailed specifications for implementation. Communicates system changes and issues to next level of management.
• Ensures current and accurate system documentation, coordinates and or performs testing of system modifications, both validated and non-validated systems. Provides systems expertise and supports system training, educational tools and materials. Involved with the Purchasing Systems Manager regarding planning/scheduling and resource allocation.
• Produces requirements for mainframe reports, time lines, and graphics using advanced functions of a personal computer. Creates reports from existing client databases to satisfy user requests, development of ad-hoc database reporting, data sampling, project analysis, or testing verification.
• Monitors and audits the use of the systems; executes system control practices and purchasing procedures for regulatory and compliance.
• Accountable to the purchasing customer and purchasing management for the control and administration of purchasing systems. Systems implemented must meet projected timelines and customer expectations. The incumbent supports various mainframe, Lotus Notes, stand-alone applications, divisional interfaced systems that impact the overall purchasing process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 2 years experience or Master's degree in Information Systems or related field is required.
• Experience in the systems development, implementation, and operations of a large-scale, enterprise systems.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and well-developed verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be able to effectively lead and facilitate meetings with customers and technical team members.
• Must be deliverables focused and detail oriented.
• Must exhibit exceptional teamwork skills.
• Must have a strong customer focus.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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