Sr. Portolio Business Analyst

We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.

In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients - including governmental agencies and private companies - throughout the United States and India.

We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.

Premier is looking for someone who is passionate about leveraging data and technology to improve the health of our communities. In Premier’s Cost Management division, we create applications and analytics that help healthcare systems improve their efficiency. We’re focused on what our members, an alliance of approximately 3,750 U.S. hospitals and 130,000 other providers, need to drive down costs within their supply chain and provide high value healthcare.

As a Senior Portfolio Business Analyst, you are the accountable liaison between product management, software development, user experience, and support. You understand the business needs of supply chain professionals and the relative importance of these needs. You understand how data is created, stored, manipulated, and used to answer questions and solve problems. You know what it’s like to be a user who depends on workflow and analysis tools daily to perform their job.

In this role you will relate the specific needs and experiences of the users you represent to software developers and testers as well as training, support, and implementation teams. You will need to work with many different functions and personalities to lead the creation of effective solutions. You will also have to stay tightly aligned with product management, helping translate their vision into solutions for our members. This requires adaptability, a good intuition for priority, and the ability to manage up.

And while your primary job is to translate the latest big ideas from product management into bite-sized requirements for development, you’ll be expected to have big ideas of your own. This may be your latest analysis showing how to improve our applications, our processes, or the business. Or it may be an idea for a new product.

At Premier you have the ability to make a meaningful impact on healthcare in the United States. Our culture values its people and their innovation, performance, and teamwork. We are a rapidly growing company with many opportunities to grow along with it, and if this role seems like a fit, we would love to talk to you.

Preferred:

• Experience in an operational supply chain role (e.g. buyer, contract manager, materials manager); OK if early career.
• High-level familiarity with how data is commonly stored, transformed, and how it flows between systems.
• Understanding of supply chain data. Examples: o The specific attributes making up an item master and their use o The important attributes of contract data
• Experience with advanced analysis, visualization and reporting tools such as Tableau, Qlik, Microstrategy, SAP Business Objects, etc..
• Experience in healthcare, with a focus on one or more of the following: o Supply chain operations & staff o Suppliers and distributors o ERP implementation/configuration
• Ability to engage people and use analogies to communicate unfamiliar concepts.
• Proactive and creative problem solver.
• Experience leading the investigation through resolution of issues. Strong root cause analysis skills.
• Experience investigating, evaluating and supporting prioritization of enhancement suggestions from users.
• Ability to effectively lead small teams through a solution. Ideal:
• Agile story-writing o Easily understood by both business and technical audiences. o Detailed/comprehensive acceptance criteria
• Ability to negotiate between users, stakeholders, and developers to find the most efficient way to rapidly deliver small but useful pieces of functionality that sum to achieve the larger objectives.
• 1+ years SQL
• Prior coding experience.
• Ability to understand diverse user personas, particularly those that are less comfortable with technology.
• Ability to develop relationships with Premier’s field team and member health system staff.
• Able to assess and establish relative priority of requirements.
• Able to coach and mentor less senior business analysts and colleagues.
• Innovates in own processes and team processes to improve efficiency. Explores creative new approaches to solving business and customer problems.

Required:

• Supply Chain knowledge & experience in several of the following areas: o Sourcing o Contracting o Enterprise Resource Planning (ERPs) o Purchasing o Value analysis o Warehouse management
• Business analysis experience in one or more of the following areas: o Application development o BI reporting & data visualization o Implementation or customization of software for supply chain management
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple complex projects in parallel.
• Very proficient with basic data analysis tools such as Microsoft Excel.
• Agile development or significant Lean process improvement experience.
• Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and deal with ambiguity.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changes in priority and/or approach.
• Thinks logically. Able to foresee conflicts/contradictions and potential gaps in proposed solutions.
• Demonstrates ownership of projects / assignments.
• Excellent listener and elicits true business needs / requirements (i.e., 90% right the first time, not a note taker).
• Understands the why behind business needs / requirements.
• Able to effectively facilitate small-medium group meetings/calls/presentations including senior staff.
• Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of experience in supply chain

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C2H

H1B,OPT- EAD,GC or USC

DURATION: 6 + MONTHS