Job Details:
What is the role?
Tyson Foods is growing! Come be part of a team that wants to help transform Tyson Foods by enabling technology to improve processes and our customer experiences. This role will serve as the IT liaison for our International Business Unit teams in Canada and Mexico. As the IT liaison, you will drive the technology strategy for our Sales and Marketing, Operations, and supporting data and analytics technology (e.g. SAP HANA, GCP, PowerBI, etc...). This position will serve as a key advocate for the broader use and adoption of these systems (use cases and solutions that scale).
The Lead Business Analyst provides strategic business analysis services to business partners and IT. The focus of this position is to work closely with the business units to gain in-depth understanding of business strategies, processes, services, roadmap and the context in which the business operates. This role will then take that understanding of business processes to identify and address operational, financial, and technological opportunities to improve efficiency and minimize risks. Responsibilities will include a full range of activities from documenting business and functional requirements to assisting on more complex projects related to operational business functions and strategic initiatives.
The position
Works closely with business to identify and analyze business needs to design the right solution at the right costs with great speed. Involves documenting roadmaps, requirements, proposals, data sources, definitions, process flow, epics, user stories, test plans, etc. This includes working with internal stakeholders and external vendors to understand the data landscape and integrations between other systems and platforms. Aligns with solution architects to ensure that all teams deliver uniform results providing a consistent, governed, and supportable view of data across the organization. Supports stakeholders in gathering use cases and defining business requirements to properly design solutions for business users' need for advanced analytic capabilities. Reviewing what data currently exists and what data is needed for actual business decision-making.
Relationship Management Responsibilities
- Provide strategic business analysis to drive capability development within each technology pillar and measure success by identifying contribution towards strategic objectives.
- Partner with stakeholder teams across business units (e.g. marketing, sales, trade, finance) to document necessary business cases to frame opportunities, benefits, and risks to decide on a course of action.
- Serve as the bridge between business problems and technology solutions by bringing a high proficiency to understand and capture complete business needs to enable effective IT solutions.
- Cultivate strong business relationships by demonstrating an understanding of needs, related processes, requirements, systems and terminology which lead to gaining rapport and trust.
- Liaison and collaborate between key stakeholders and IT shared services on support and maintenance related activities to ensure quality of systems.
Functional Responsibilities
- Analyze an organization or business domain, document the business processes or systems, and assessing the business model or its integration with technology.
- Drive identification of requirements across business units and identify systems and processes through evaluation of business objectives, drivers, and success metrics.
- Document business requirements and detailed functional and technical specifications from multi-department stakeholders for review and delivery to the development team using an agile model and develop epics, user stories, and their acceptance criteria for agile delivery.
- Participate in project delivery and process optimization to support the execution of projects using various project methodologies, including performing configuration within a variety of software packages.
- Identify change management processes and techniques to handle change within a business with mínimal disruption to business activities and maximize adoption of new solutions.
- Develop test plans for given releases as well as execute system and integration test cases.
- Maintain awareness of best practices including processes and technology and identify opportunities for improvement of existing functionality.
- Analyze and interpret information technology proposals and evaluate possible implementation options and recommend the best option, being clear about pro's and con's.
- Ability to take a topic of higher complexity and break it into topics that are digestible by technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Handle multiple engagements simultaneously without compromising accountability or reducing level of engagement.
- Use existing or research new tools that improve the delivery of solutions to customers.
- Provide guidance and feedback to more junior analysts within the team to elevate t