Lead Senior Functional Analysts

Lead Senior Functional Analysts

Job Location: Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, 3050 Spruce Street, St. Louis, MO 63103

Local telecommuting is permitted. The employee must be able to come into the office in St. Louis, Missouri when needed.

5% domestic travel and 5% international travel required per year.

This position is eligible for the Sigma-Aldrich Corporation Employee Referral Program.

Responsibilities:

The Lead Senior Functional Analyst will collaborate with stakeholders, typically product/process owners and senior managers, across the entire business to ensure all requirements gathering, documentation, testing, training, and communication is complete. Specific job duties include:

1. Guide functional analysts to convert business needs into functional requirements;
2. Analyze large scale business problems and opportunities by evaluating, clarifying, and defining business processes and systems to meet user requirements;
3. Review and optimize business processes to minimize wasted time and tailor the application to deliver against an optimized process;
4. Create business process flow diagrams to describe the "as is" and "to be" states;
5. Take ownership of the end-to-end process during the design and development phases and coordinates hand-over of solution to business stakeholders;
6. Investigate, determine, and recommend solutions for change requests and coordinate with IT to identify functional and technical options;
7. Work closely with the development team to define and pressure test the data models to support the application;
8. Review test results, validate through independent testing and sign-off on changes; and
9. Provide leadership and mentoring to less experienced team members by reviewing their documentation for gaps in use cases or business processes.

Requirements & Qualifications:

Employer requires a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business administration, a life sciences field, engineering, or a closely related field and three (3) years of work experience as a Business Analyst/Functional Analyst (“BA/FA”) or related occupation implementing an eCommerce website. In addition, the employer requires the following:

1. Demonstrated ability implementing successful website and ERP projects gained through three (3) years of work experience; and
2. Demonstrated understanding of inventory management, product presentation, product/service marketing, order to cash processing, or order fulfillment gained through three (3) years of work experience.

All years of experience may be gained concurrently.

Applicants can send resumes to Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, 400 Summit Drive, Burlington, Massachusetts 01803 (Attn: Req# 274676) or apply online https://www.emdgroup.com/en/careers/job-search.html?