Do you want to contribute to a larger purpose to save the lives of infants in the NICU? This is Prolacta Bioscience’s mission! Take a look at this opportunity with our Information Technology team, which is seeking a passionate individual, to fill the role of our Business Analyst III.
In this role, you will be responsible for supporting the IT team in all aspects of implementing FDA compliant IT systems with ERP Financial systems being the immediate need. This includes working with business users and Subject Matter Experts (SME's) to understand the end-to-end processes and document all aspects of Requirement, Process Flow, Design and Testing & Training phase in the SDLC. To excel at this position, you will need to have a strong understanding of processes, ERP systems, interpret them into functional requirements and formulate detailed test cases for each requirement.
Who Is Prolacta Bioscience?
We give babies a brighter future by unlocking the biological power of human milk. Established in 1999, Prolacta Bioscience is a privately held life sciences company that has touched the lives of more than 70,000 premature infants globally. Prolacta is the world’s leading hospital provider of 100% human milk–based nutritional products. Based in Southern California, we employ more than 300 people globally, many of whom have dedicated their lives to neonatal care.
For more information, please visit www.prolacta.com
How you will contribute
This role will provide you with the opportunity to contribute to the growth of our organization and develop your professional skills by…
• Lead daily, weekly, and monthly agile rituals as required efficiently and diligently.
• Participates in special projects and/ or other assignments as required.
• Lead communication between the business teams, vendor, IT and other support teams.
• Collaborate with outsourced global resources in the creation and maintenance of software.
Other duties and responsibilities
• Document and understand current as-is processes, collaborate with SMEs to design desired process, performs detailed gap analysis and recommend business process improvements.
• Produce high-quality documentation (e.g. Process Flow charts, stories, FRS, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Summary Reports, SOPs, Training Manuals etc) that meets applicable standards and is appropriate for its intended audience.
• Perform Product Owner functions such as ensuring backlogs are updated, prioritized regularly, define sprint goals, develop, and maintain Product Vision & Roadmap, and ensure our SOPs are adhered to in the execution of tasks.
• Remove impediments as required.
• Recommend relevant user requests by critically evaluating information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts and decompose high-level information into details.
• Lead mid to large enterprise projects independently as a lead analyst.
• Work closely with business stakeholders and participate in establishing the product roadmap for the organization.
• Works closely with the Prolacta Quality team to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Works with the IT team by improving processes, developing standards, improving project documentation and procedures.
• Perform regular one on one meetings with subordinates as part of performance reviews if/as required.
What you bring to the role
Requirements:
• Proven working experience in technical writing of software documentation (5-8 years) and related experience.
• Proven experience in full scale implementation of enterprise wide solutions such as ERP Systems HR Systems or Manufacturing Systems (5+ years).
• Very strong oral and written communication skills required.
Qualifications:
• Ability to quickly grasp complex concepts and make them easily understandable using text and visual aids.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Visio.
• Good understanding of SDLC and software development.
• Understands validation concepts in order to produce documentation for validated systems.
• Good skills and knowledge of facilitation, continuous improvement, empowerment, transparency and servant leadership, Knowledge of Agile approaches - Kanban, Scrum etc.
• Experience running Scrum with JIRA; knowledge and experience with Agile techniques such as Automated Testing, Stories, Continuous Integration etc. preferable.
• Strong quantitative, critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills. • University degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred.
How Prolacta benefits you
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From up to 100% healthcare coverage beginning on your first day, to discretionary stock options and 401(k) match, we value our employees’ health and financial wellbeing. We offer four weeks PTO during your first year of employment and support our new parents with a generous time-off program. We encourage employees to participate in our employee affinity groups, take volunteer time off, and provide access to different educational opportunities.
What else do you need to know
Location: Duarte, CA;
Remote with flexibility of returning to office as needed
Schedule: M-F, 8am – 5pm
Travel: Minimal—determined by the needs of the business
FLSA: Exempt
In an effort to minimize the spread of the coronavirus and to protect our employees, all new hires in the U.S. will need to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by their hire date with Prolacta Bioscience unless eligible for an accommodation as provided by law.
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Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to effectively communicate (e.g., talking/ hearing), walk, sit, use hands and fingers to handle, feel and reach things. The employee is occasionally required to taste, smell, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Employee will frequently lift and/or move up to ten pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.
Sedentary to light work; repetitive motions; pushing; pulling; visual acuity to prepare and analyze data and figures, transcribe, view a computer terminal.
EEO Statement
“Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.” Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. is committed to a proactive program of affirmative action and diversity development. The Company will continue to recruit, hire, train, and promote into all job levels without regard to race, religion, gender, marital status, familial status, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, or veteran status.