Cognizant is a world leader in delivering digital transformation solutions to Life Sciences. Through our knowledge and expertise in Automation, MES & Digital, we deliver stable manufacturing systems that are optimized to improve operational efficiencies, whilst maintaining compliance.
Our specialist engineering teams have the aptitude to deliver and support Pharma 4.0 architectures and solutions covering all IT, OT and IoT applications, infrastructures and services.
Operating across 5 continents and with over 300.000 skilled employees, Cognizant partners with the leading Life Sciences companies globally to provide performance improvements, reduced costs and improve time to market. We are your single end to end partner for consultancy, design implementation, optimization and support for all applications in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Manufacturing stack.
We're looking for dedicated, innovative and driven talent to join our expanding team.
Responsibilities:
- Requirement Gathering: Engaging with stakeholders to understand their needs and document specific requirements for IT systems, processes, or improvements.
- Solution Design: Collaborating with IT Digital teams to implement the digital solutions within the site blueprint that meet business requirements.
- Testing and Validation: Participating in testing efforts to ensure that the developed solutions meet the documented requirements.
- Change Management: Assisting in implementing changes by communicating with stakeholders, providing training, and addressing concerns.
- Data Analysis: Analysing data to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can inform business decisions.
- Documentation: Creating and maintaining detailed documentation of business requirements, processes, and solutions.
- Stakeholder Communication: Facilitating communication between business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure alignment and understanding.
- Drives analysis efforts for initial business case, resource ROM, prioritization, and categorization.
- Contributes to resource level of effort, vendor readiness, contract readiness, GxP/SOX assessment.
- Document’s process flows for current state and future state.
- Documents / maintains user requirements / use cases.
- Provides user requirements to development team for functional requirements definition.
- Participates in design reviews.
- Lead UAT testing efforts and ensure UAT issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
- Supports the project rollout on deployment and hyper care tasks.
- Supports value affirmation analysis once the project is operational.
- Work with business stakeholders to understand evolving requirements and translate business priorities into IT solutions.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information sciences or related field or equivalent experience.
- 5 years of Business Analysis experience
- Functional understanding and application of principles, theories, and concepts, aligning with understanding of business needs.
- Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and change with desire to drive teams to productive solutions.
- Understanding of functional aspect of systems in the Manufacturing & Supply Chain area
- Strong people skills to work effectively with business and IT leadership, peers and reports.
- Technical system expertise and understanding of architectural issues.
- Self-starter with demonstrated efficient work methods, analytical & problem-solving skills and ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Program Management experience preferred.
- Strong communication and excellent research skills and learning agility to understand internal business process, best practices and translate into technology needs/opportunities.
- Strong business acumen
- Specific experience in the Life Sciences/Pharma/Medical Devices/Healthcare industries is preferred.
- Pharma MES and SAP experience an advantage.
- Knowledge of business reporting and BI/Visualization tools also an advantage.
