Medline is hiring: Sr. Business Analyst in Winnetka

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Job Description
Senior Technical Business Analyst
Medline Industries, LP is the leading nationwide supplier of medical, surgical, and pharmaceutical products to hospitals, nursing homes, HME providers, surgery centers, physician offices and home care/hospice settings. Due to continued growth, we need a Senior Technical Business Analyst to join our IT team.
Summary
Medline Industries, Inc. is seeking a talented individual with knowledge of and experience working with business partners and technical development teams to deliver high quality technical solutions. They will help our Pricing and Customer Projects team to improve their processes, efficiency, and customer experience. This role supports the development of low code Applications, RPA, Data Reporting, and Data visualizations. This is a great opportunity to work with a fast-paced highly motivated team of 12 developers and Business analysts.
Major Responsibilities

• Lead and drive requirements-gathering sessions with multiple stakeholders with minimal dependency on Lead or Manager. Organize and engage in effective meetings with the team and business.
• Identify the inter-dependencies of complex projects across domains. Requires leadership, communication, and collaboration with cross-functional teams including senior leaders and executives.
• Research technologies/solutions available with minimal dependency on lead/manager.
• Take ownership of deliverables and improve existing processes. Define standards for team deliverables and processes.
• Prioritize primary assignments and ad-hoc work for junior team members. Provide feedback to team members as required.
• Investigate and document business requirements from business partners to facilitate discussions and conduct workflow analyses. Construct workflow charts and diagrams, study system capabilities, and write specifications.
• Recommend solutions or improvements to business processes which can be accomplished through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology.
• Interpret business requirements to functional designs. Collaborate with Developers and Engineers on technical designs and development.
• Act as a liaison and lead between the IT development group and business partners for the development and implementation of new systems and enhancement of existing systems.
• Working with large datasets within applications, developing reports and dashboards as well as the creative problem-solving, leadership, and communication skills necessary to drive change.
• Ensure solutions are tested/validated sufficiently before being implemented in production. Test planning and testing results with a minimal level of input and review from management.
• Possess an in-depth understanding of the business function/process supported, and also viewed as a credible representative of that business function/process.
• Working closely with the team to ensure on-time delivery of quality solutions with minimal rework.
• Responsible for product ownership and working with business partners for improvements to drive business.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field; or equivalent work experience.

Requirements:

• 4 years of experience working in a Business Analyst role.
• Strong analytical skills to understand business goals, and complex processes, and design appropriate solutions.
• Experience working in a fast-paced agile / scrum methodology.
• Strong understanding of project management life cycle and system development life cycle, project management methodologies, and procedures, including Agile.
• Proficient in JIRA, MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) software
• Experience working in Custom application development.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in onshore/offshore models.
• Strong prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, project management (from conception to completion), & planning skills
• Demonstrates collaborative skills and ability to work well within a team.
• Ability to work with and influence peers and management.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to translate business processes or concepts into technical requirements are essential.

Preferred:
Experience working with Tableau, WebFOCUS, SQL, SSIS, Alteryx, Power BI, Python.

Benefits - Medline is committed to offering competitive benefits and a variety of choices to best meet the needs of you and your family. For employees scheduled to work at least 30 hours per week, this includes health and well-being, financial fitness, career development, paid time off and more. Employees scheduled to work less than 30 hours per week can participate in the 401(k) plan, access the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and Medline Service Corps. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits, please click here.

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Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.