Business Analyst

Job description

Responsibilities:
JOB SUMMARY: As the subject matter expert in this position, you will be responsible for leading business
requirements definition to successful completion including the discovery, analysis and documentation of
process flows, use cases, test and training plans. You will be a member of the Business Applications Teamand
the project liaison between partner subject matter experts and the Information Technology (IT) team. This
position is highly visible and interacts with partners within a specific Business Unit. The Business Systems
Analyst is responsible for effective communication between partners and management as well as other
support members and the IT team.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Ability to elicit the true requirements underlying feature requests, align them with alternative
technical and business approaches and work with business and technical teams to develop solutions
that meet goals and requirements.
2. Overseeing business to system knowledge management & documentation and assisting in overall
system design from user interface to backend processes in both custom application development
and software configuration projects.
3. Business analysis processes mapping including assorted requirements gathering methodologies,
documentation and partner relationship development.
4. Will interact as IT contact with business unit partners to facilitate identification of process
improvements, risk management, system design, testing and implementation of complex solutions.
5. Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices.
6. Communicate the vision for the system by extracting, analyzing and prioritizing business
requirements from business objectives, documenting those requirements and refining them into
technical action items.
7. Responsible for interpreting and validating horizontal business strategies and operational needs into
technology solutions that drive efficiency and process improvement.
8. Assist business partners with defining clear, measurable objectives and ensure the solution options
meet the project goals and align with the Global Strategic Initiatives.
9. Identifies issues beyond stated situation.
10. Applies discretion and independent judgement to identify when deviation from standard practice is
required without prior approval.
11. Provide business and technical leadership and work with the IT Project Team to ensure that projects
progress on expected timelines and alert project team to risks and issues related to IT solutions.
12. Complete assigned projects in a timely and cost-effective manner and coordinate the tasks of
internal and external resources where necessary to achieve required results.
13. Follow Company policies and practices while representing Driscoll's in an ethical and business-like
manner in all interactions with employees, governmental agencies, growers, customers, etc.
14. Ensures the security of Driscoll's confidential and proprietary information and materials
15. May lead functional teams or projects.
16. Establishes working relationships with others outside area of expertise.
17. Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovation solutions and develop
new concepts, methods and techniques.
18. Other duties as assigned
19. This job description is intended to describe the general nature of the work performed by employees
in this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all the job's responsibilities. At Driscoll's, all of our jobs
include broad responsibilities for continually improving the processes we use to develop our
products.

Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in a related field and 10 years of work experience in systems analysis and design or
equivalent combination of education and experience.

Data analysts to support the product managers - Minimum 7+ years' experience like Product Manager, experience in SQL and Snowflakes

● Requires strong written, verbal and interpersonal skills to convey both technical and non-technical
concepts to a wide audience.
● Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions and effectively present
findings and recommendations to management.
● Experience in both in-house development solutions and implementation of vendor delivered
applications preferred.
● Requires excellent analytical and problem solving skills. A comprehensive understanding of business
processes and the ability to quickly learn new processes.
● Expresses detail level business/systems analysis using As-Is Swim lane Diagrams, UML Use Case and
other modeling standards.
● Strong experience with Microsoft product suite, including Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project and
SharePoint required.
● Experience with wireframe creation tools.
● Works independently, with guidance only in the most complex situations.