Pharmaceutical Business Analyst

Overview

This contract opportunity is for a Principal IT Business Analyst supporting pharmaceutical and life sciences work in a remote setting. The role focuses on understanding stakeholder information and automation needs, then turning those needs into well-defined business and functional requirements for IT services and solutions.

The position requires pharmaceutical industry experience and is W2 only. The assignment is expected to last more than 4 months, and compensation is $69.23 per hour.

What the Role Involves

• Work with stakeholder groups to uncover, analyze, validate, specify, and document business and functional needs.
• Collect use cases and requirements to help shape early-stage concepts and projects within the PV IT team.
• Partner with business users to make sure their needs are accurately translated into workable IT solutions.
• Map business processes, define data flows, compare existing and new tools, and help prioritize practical improvements.
• Produce SDLC deliverables such as business requirements, functional requirements, and traceability matrices.
• Report to the Associate Director of PV IT.
• Convert high-level user needs into developer-friendly functional requirements.
• Keep project stakeholders, end users, project managers, and team members informed about requirement changes, enhancements, issues, and solutions during the project lifecycle.
• Align with stakeholders to define project vision and scope, and help prioritize gathered requirements with the project team.
• Gather requirements through interviews, workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and similar methods.
• Prepare documentation such as statements of work, project objectives and metrics, business requirements, use cases, storyboards, functional specifications, and system/end-user guides.
• Support or deliver training for application users and the IT support team.

Required Background

• 5 to 7 years of business process analysis experience in a pharmaceutical environment, especially within development sciences.
• Experience in regulatory affairs, submission sciences, regulatory operations, or preclinical safety is considered an advantage.
• Strong capability in business process improvement and deviation/CAPA management.
• Proven ability to collaborate with business partners and cross-functional teams.
• Experience in requirements definition and management.
• Knowledge of user experience design and analysis.
• Hands-on exposure to user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Experience supporting pharmacovigilance solutions in life sciences, along with familiarity with regulatory guidance and compliance requirements such as GxP and 21 CFR Part 11.
• Background in data migration.
• Direct experience with Veeva Vault; Veeva Vault Safety is a plus.
• Understanding of system application architecture.
• An undergraduate degree, or an equivalent mix of education and relevant experience, is required.
• CBAP or PMP certification is a plus.
• This role is open only to W2 candidates.

Additional Information

The role is remote and based in Illinois, United States. The posting does not specify a set number of openings. Applicants should note that the job requires pharmaceutical industry experience and is structured as a contract engagement.

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