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Senior Business Analyst

This colleague will support the Pfizer Global Transportation Systems.
These systems support domestic and global shipments to Pfizer Manufacturing sites, Logistics Centers, Sales Force colleagues and outside customers. Colleague would be part of the Global Logistics IT team (includes the Order Management and Warehouse Management teams).

A broad view of system integration as well as an awareness of the direct customer impact for these systems is required.

This role’s primary responsibility will be for the global support and implementation of the Transportation Planning and Optimization software (JDA/Manugistics). Future projects could include other transportation related projects.

The JDA/Manugistics Transportation Suite is a commercial software package. A thorough knowledge of configuration capabilities, Oracle capabilities and interface enhancement capabilities is expected to be acquired.

As Senior Business Analyst for Transportation Planning, duties would include:
• Work with the business clients to analyze data and suggest good future sites for Transportation Planning initiatives.
• Analyze business requirements and translate to technical requirements. Develop system design in accordance to business requirement and technical specification.
• Work with business clients to configure software for new sites and business models.
• Work with vendor and internal IT teams to perform vendor package installation, application of software patches and upgrades on a timely basis.
• Create and/or modify code to technical specifications, configure vendor software, perform testing and implement technical solution to support the business requirements and design specifications.
• Develop, configure and implement data interfaces with internal and external systems.
• Participate in projects involving interfaces between Transportation Systems and other internal and external systems.
• Evaluate the impact of these projects on Transportation Systems. Recommend and deliver solutions to support these initiatives.
• Promote transportation planning functions and suggest enhancements to sites and global teams.
• Analyze business change requests and provide time/cost estimates.
• Maintain project plan and manage project implementation schedules.
• Train sites on Transportation Planning software.
• Provide on-going end user production support for sites. This includes data analysis, creation of adhoc reports and resolution of Help Desk tickets. Work with internal and external IT teams to provide timely resolution for technical issues in Transportation Systems.
• Enforce adherence to Pfizer documentation and testing standards. Develop and maintain full system documentation as per SDLC standards.
• Initiate and manage change controls per Pfizer standards.
• Collaborate and manage project execution activities with the business users, internal IT teams, external vendors and external customers in support of Integration testing, User Acceptance testing, project Pilot activities and production implementation activities.
• Provide frequent and timely management feedback and progress status updates.
• Work cooperatively with all levels of the organization and external companies (software vendor, carriers).
• Represent Pfizer at software vendor or supply chain conferences as appropriate.
• System performance monitoring.
• Understand scope and limitations for changes to global systems.
• Support complex systems with geographically and culturally diverse teams.

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Logistics, or related discipline is required. MS or MBA preferred. Candidates must have a minimum of 5 years of Information Technology experience in implementing systems involving design, development, configuration and deployment of applications within a large IT organization preferably in Pharmaceutical manufacturing, logistics, or supply chain systems. Experience with global systems a plus.

Candidate should have experience in configuration and deployment of Transportation Planning systems with JDA/Manugistics Transportation Suite experience strongly preferred.

Knowledge of the software development lifecycle, configuration management, and software development methodologies (preferably Enterprise Life Cycle (ELC) / Solution Life Cycle (SLC)) is desired.
Full life cycle software design and implementation experience is required. Experience with cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices) and validated systems a plus.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. Candidate will be expected to work independently with a wide variety of global teams including Transportation, Logistics, Customer Service, Data Center Support, technical IT management, offshore coding resources and software vendors. Successful candidate must have demonstrated ability to communicate, understand, and translate business requirements into information technology requirements and deliverables. Demonstrated ability to develop and adhere to project plans required. Ability to enforce thorough testing and documentation standards required.

Strong analytical and problem solving abilities are required. Must be able to analyze and respond promptly to a variety of requests. Excellent follow through skills mandatory. Candidate must also be able to manage a team of 1-3 resources adhering to project timelines, providing day-to-day guidance and feedback, delegating and reviewing project work. Candidate needs to be able to work cooperatively across functional boundaries.

Experience in Oracle RDBMS in a UNIX environment, PL/SQL, UNIX Scripting, Perl scripting and debugging tools is required. Experience in C , Java and Toad is desired. Candidate should have hands on experience in working with these technologies.

Must be available for limited travel within and outside the U.S. as project needs dictate.

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