Sr Associate Business Analyst

About Amgen

Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today.

About The Role

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will help digitally transform Amgen's Requisition to Order (R2O) capabilities by being part of the R2O product team. As a Senior Associate Business Systems Analyst within our global Technology team, this role will help evolve the Procure to pay (P2P) capabilities and support transition from our worldwide ERP instance on SAP ECC to the S/4HANA Intelligent Enterprise. Are you a professional with deep technical experience in Global Procurement processes? Come join a team that is passionate about innovation and making life better with technology!

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Owners and System Architects to manage business analysis activities, ensuring alignment with business and product goals
• Understand customer needs to shape business processes and product requirements
• Work with Product Managers and customers to define scope and value for new developments
• Collaborate with Business SMEs and Product Management to prioritize release scopes and refine the Product backlog
• Ensure non-functional requirements are included and prioritized in the Product and Release Backlogs
• Facilitate the breakdown of Epics into Features and Sprint-Sized User Stories and participate in backlog reviews with the product team
• Clearly express features in User Stories/requirements so all team members and stakeholders understand how they fit into the product backlog
• Ensure Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done are well-defined and understood
• Stay focused on software development to ensure it meets requirements, providing proactive feedback to stakeholders
• Develop and execute effective product demonstrations for internal and external stakeholders
• Maintain accurate documentation of configurations, processes, and changes
  
  

Basic Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 to 9 years of information systems experience
  
  

Must-Have Skills

• Experience with writing user requirements and acceptance criteria in agile project management systems such as JIRA
• Hands on experience in procurement tools like SAP MM and/or SAP Ariba
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies and ability to drive projects using Agile methodology
• Provide support to SAP users, including troubleshooting issues and providing training
  
  

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with stakeholder management, ensuring seamless coordination across teams and driving the successful delivery of technical projects
• Experience in managing product features for PI planning and developing product roadmaps
• Able to communicate technical or complex subject matters in business terms
• Experience of DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery methodology. Experience with Jira Align is a plus
  
  

Professional Certifications

• SAFe for Teams certification (preferred)
  
  

Soft Skills:

• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully
• Team-oriented with a focus on achieving team goals
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills
  
  

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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