Strategic Business Analyst - Life Sciences (Contract)

Magic Hat Consulting; Fort Washington (Montgomery County); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

BRD/FRD creation

Project management

IT/Business liaison

Life Sciences

Executive communication

Job description

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.