Company Description
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description
Come to work each day with an inclusive and collaborative Business technology team! As a Product Analyst in AbbVie Business Technology Solutions (BTS), you’ll have opportunities to contribute to the digital transformation of a leading biopharma company, helping to create solutions that impact patients and their communities for the better.
The Product Analyst plays a crucial role in the technology product lifecycle assisting in the development and management of technology programs supporting AbbVie’s Commercial Finance & Planning groups across the Commercial Therapeutic business areas of Immunology, Oncology, Neuroscience, Eye care, and Specialty. Manages and provides expert advice on the selection, design, justification, implementation and business use of information systems. Analyzes business processes; elicits, analyzes, and documents business requirements; identifies alternative solutions, assesses feasibility and makes recommendations typically seeking to exploit and leverage new or existing technology components. Translates business requirements into functional requirements; performs data and process modeling; manages change; and leads, coordinates / performs testing, verification, and validation of requirements.
In this role, you'll be responsible for:
- Support the Product Owner in managing technology products from ideation to operation, including securing cross-functional alignment on project scope, solution, deliverables, and timeline.
- Proactively understanding current business processes and strategies, educating business stakeholders on existing technology capabilities, and influencing/developing proposed business-driven technology enhancements & features.
- Identifying current and emerging unmet business needs and evaluating features and technology solutions to address those needs, balancing between short-term and long-term value. Identifying re-use opportunities and proposing viable pilot and MVP solutions.
- Eliciting, defining, validating, and documenting business requirements with input from both business and BTS stakeholders. Coordinating meetings with business and BTS stakeholders, and presenting or participating in discovery, clarification, solutioning or grooming sessions.
- Overseeing the health of all BTS documentation related to specific technology Products, including BRD or User Stories (JIRA), living documents, SLC-related documents, Master metadata or label documents, and appropriate methodologies for documentation maintenance.
- Managing demand intake, scope clarification, epic and story grooming, estimating, traceability, generating timeline plans, defining, and executing UAT and testing strategies, release management, and validating engineering decisions.
- Conducts training. Identify process disconnects and translate them into improvement opportunities, productivity improvements, or revenue generating business benefits. Coordinates end-to-end testing and performance testing throughout sprint or cycle development phase of the project. Responsible for monitoring and tracking issues during UAT and functional testing.
- Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures. Identifies current and emerging business needs and evaluates alternative technology solutions using standard information systems methodologies and best practices.
This role will require 3 days in the Mettawa office. Candidates who are not local or within a commutable distance would be expected to relocate.
Qualifications
What makes you a strong candidate for this role:
Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree with 6 years’ experience; Master’s Degree with 5 years’ experience; PhD with 0 years’ experience.
- Excellent communication and people skills, with a keen ability to build trust, listen, and ask effective questions.
- Ability to interact with business stakeholders to demystify complex concepts without relying on technical language.
- Deep experience in eliciting, defining, and writing requirements for business application delivery in a pharmaceutical/healthcare company setting, including Reporting & analytics focused capabilities, BI and Visualization capabilities, and Business Process workflow or automation.
- Demonstrable working expertise of Agile methodology, process and ceremonies, Dev/Ops methodology, and associated tools. Demonstrable experience with JIRA and Confluence.
Beneficial:
- Relevant experience with Business Intelligence, Reporting and Data Management capabilities in a financial planning & analysis setting.
- Thorough understanding of and hands-on experience with SLC (Software Life Cycle) phases, including Build and Run aspects of a Technology Product.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.
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