Business Analyst

Magic Hat Consulting; Fort Washington (Montgomery County); Presencial; USD 85.000 - 125.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Magic Hat Consulting, a boutique Life Sciences consulting firm, seeks a seasoned Business Analyst (Contract) to support client initiatives across Commercial and IT teams.

You will define business requirements, develop business cases, and support project execution, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. The role emphasizes stakeholder collaboration, requirements traceability, and hands-on UAT and go-live activities.

Formación

• 8+ years as a Business Analyst delivering business and technology initiatives.
• Proven ability to gather, document, and translate business needs into actionable solutions.
• Experience creating BRDs, FRDs, functional specs, and process maps.
• Experience developing business cases with costs, benefits, risks, and impact.
• Strong PM, analytical and problem-solving skills across multiple priorities.
• Excellent communication with stakeholders from leadership to front-line managers.
• Consulting and Life Sciences experience is required.

Responsabilidades

• Define business requirements: Partner with business stakeholders to understand business needs, document requirements, identify gaps, and translate objectives into clear and actionable requirements.
• Develop business cases: Support business case development by defining business needs, evaluating potential solutions, and helping assess costs, benefits, risks, and recommendations.
• Bridge IT and Commercial teams: Liaise effectively between business stakeholders and IT teams to ensure business needs are understood and solutions align with business objectives.
• Support project execution: Manage project activities, timelines, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communications to support successful project delivery.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment: Lead requirements gathering workshops and stakeholder discussions, develop project documentation, and help drive alignment and decision-making across cross-functional teams.
• Perform current-state/future-state analysis and maintain requirement traceability.
• Hands-on experience supporting UAT , defect management, and production go-live activities.

Conocimientos

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

BRD/FRD creation

Project management

IT/Business liaison

Life Sciences

Executive communication

Descripción del empleo

Magic Hat Consulting (MHC) is a boutique Life Sciences consulting firm that helps companies launch products with greater success and enhances overall commercialization and business transformation capabilities. We specialize in Launch Excellence, Marketing Excellence, Business Transformation, and delivering On-Demand Commercial/Functional Expertise.

Position Summary: Business Analyst (Contract )

MHC's Business Analysts will support our client's business and technology initiatives, partnering with Commercial and IT teams to define business requirements, develop business cases, and support project execution. This is a Business Analyst role requiring IT experience and the ability to effectively liaise with Commercial business personnel.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define business requirements : Partner with business stakeholders to understand business needs, document requirements, identify gaps, and translate objectives into clear and actionable requirements.
• Develop business cases : Support business case development by defining business needs, evaluating potential solutions, and helping assess costs, benefits, risks, and recommendations.
• Bridge IT and Commercial teams : Liaise effectively between business stakeholders and IT teams to ensure business needs are understood and solutions align with business objectives.
• Support project execution : Manage project activities, timelines, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communications to support successful project delivery.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment : Lead requirements gathering workshops and stakeholder discussions, develop project documentation, and help drive alignment and decision-making across cross-functional teams.
• Perform current-state/future-state analysis and maintain requirement traceability.
• Hands-on experience supporting UAT , defect management, and production go-live activities.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst supporting business and technology initiatives.
• Strong communication skills with an executive presence. Ability to work with a variety of stakeholders spanning leadership to front line managers across Commercial & IT.
• Strong experience gathering, documenting, and managing business requirements and translating business needs into actionable solutions. Experience creating BRDs, FRDs, functional specifications, and process maps.
• Experience developing business cases and evaluating potential solutions, including costs, benefits, risks, and business impact.
• Strong project management, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to liaise effectively with Commercial/business stakeholders and IT teams and communicate across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Consulting experience and/or Life Sciences experience required.

These are contract roles.