Leverage your business analysis and management abilities to help drive change and innovation by leading a small best practices business analysis team in a wide variety of enterprise software and process projects.

Collective Genius (www.collective-genius.com) is currently looking to connect a Business Analysis Manager with a well-established client organization that’s growing their BA practice.  In this role you will be leading a team of 2-4 BAs, driving requirements for software and process, and acting as a primary communication point between business and technology leadership.

This is a regular full time employee opening and provides competitive compensation including full benefits.

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Performance Objectives:

• Lead a team of 2-4 business analysts to elicit, gather, prioritize, and document software requirements for a broad range of new and off-the-shelf applications
• Lead process and workflow initiatives
• Lead the planning and execution of quality assurance testing.

Qualifications / Skills:

• 2+ years managing or leading business analysis teams
• Senior-level business analysis knowledge and experience
• Working knowledge and experiences of Lean Six Sigma or other process improvement methods
• Senior-level quality assurance knowledge and experience
• Diverse project portfolio management (custom development, vendor selection and implementation, infrastructure, web, etc.)
• Genuine interest in coaching, mentoring and professionally developing business analysis staff within team and across firm

Desired but not required

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certification a plus
• Lean Six Sigma belt(s) a plus

For more information on this particular opening, or to have your questions answered by a recruiter, please contact us at:

talent@collective-genius.com

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Leverage your business analysis abilities to help drive change and innovation by building out process and software requirements with a high performing business analysis team.

Collective Genius (www.collective-genius.com) is currently looking to connect an intermediate level Business Analyst with a well established client organization that’s growing their BA practice. In this role you would be driving requirements for software and process across a wide variety of systems in the organization and acting as a primary liaison across business and technical groups.

This is a regular full time employee opening and provides competitive compensation including full benefits.

Performance objectives:

• Elicit, gather, prioritize, and document software requirements for a broad range of new application and off the shelf applications (use case experience desired)
• ID process and workflow / Develop process documentation
• Plan and execute quality assurance testing.

Qualifications / Competencies:

• 4+ year track record of success in a business analysis role
• 2+ year track record of success in quality assurance functions
• Highly adaptable and able to work with a high level of autonomy
• Excellent time management and prioritization
• Pro-active BA approach / Able to develop options

Desired but not required

• Lean / six sigma experience

For more information on this particular opening or to have your questions answered by a recruiter please contact us at:

talent@collective-genius.com

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Leverage your business analysis abilities to help drive change and innovation by building out a new global social media application.

Collective Genius (www.collective-genius.com) is currently looking to connect a Business Analyst with
a leader in the consumer goods space. In this role you would be driving requirements for a new social
media application and be a primary liaison across business and technical groups.

This is long term consulting role (10+ months) with the possibility of contract to hire and provides
competitive compensation including benefits.

Performance Objectives:
Elicit and gather requirements by working closely and building relationships with business
stakeholders / representatives through group meeting and individual sessions
Analyze and frame requirements in relation to business, technical, and systems aspects (use case)
Analyze and frame requirements in relation to process and workflows
Create Data Maps
Gain Consensus on requirements among all business participants / Communicate requirements and obtain signoff

High priority competencies:
Self-Driven, pro-active, and able to work in a highly autonomous fashion with little supervision
High level of attention to detail / Analytical orientation
Previous experience navigating complex systems / environments
Strong technical BA or development background

Desired but not required:
Consumer facing software development project experience (eCommerce, B2C web)
ARIS experience
Quality Assurance ability

Help drive the full lifecycle requirements for a next generation field services mobile application.

We believe in change. We believe in supporting leaders in socially good organizations and industries to drive innovation and change to make the world a better place.  Believe in work that matters.

Collective Genius (www.collective-genius.com) is currently searching for a contract to hire business analyst to help implement a next generation field services mobile application for a growing group in an established company. In this role you would be working with internal clients to elicit, gather, and document requirements and bridge the gap between business and technical groups. There is a lot of opportunity to have a high degree of impact as a liaison between business and technical groups in this role. This is a six month contract-to-hire project with competitive rates and benefits available.

To apply or request more information please reply directly to this posting at HR@collective-genius.com

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Help drive requirements to ensure compliance and safety in the clinical and pharmaceutical industries.

We believe in change. We believe in supporting leaders in socially good organizations and industries to drive innovation and change to make the world a better place.  Believe in work that matters.

Collective Genius (www.collective-genius.com) is currently searching for a long-term consultant to work with a multinational pharmaceutical company. In this role you would be working with clients to elicit and document requirements to help ensure the compliance and safety of pharmaceutical products. There is a lot of opportunity to have a high degree of impact in this critical and high priority project as a liaison between business and technical groups. This is a one year project working with a strong management and business analysis team including Collective Genius and training partner support. The role is located in CT with flexible hours, partial remote work arrangements, and travel options available.

To apply or request more information please reply directly to this posting to geoff.grcevich@collective-genius.com

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Performance Objectives:

Work with marketing and other business functional groups to elicit, gather, and document Use Cases and Requirements for a communications portal project and corporate web site redesign projects

Identify interdependencies across business and technical groups

Translate business and functional requirements into technical requirements for use by IT/development groups

Facilitate negotiation and build consensus across groups

Support UX and Architecture resources in requirements validation

Support Quality Control, Testing, UAT activities

High priority competencies:

Excellent verbal and written communication abilities

Ability to manage across geographically distributed teams

Able to effectively work with non-technical business groups

Able to work autonomously / self-directed

Able to navigate ambiguity effectively

Pro-active orientation: presents solutions/options for consideration

Technical ability with: MS Project, Visio

To apply or learn more about the role contact Collective Genius at http://www.collective-genius.com or hr@collective-genius.com

Senior IT Business Analyst

Leads the business analysis effort to capture, clarify, and manage business requirements for IT projects.  In addition to identifying, documenting, and validating the delivery of business requirements used by the technical team to provide the functionality which meets the business needs, the Sr. BA will work with other team members to help develop plans/schedules/deliverables to meet overall project release schedules.

Main Responsibilities:

¨      Learns and applies existing and new system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of systems which contribute significantly to the business or department.

¨      Works with Project Managers to understand the business goals and objectives, as well as the project scope, to ensure all project requirements are in alignment with these.

¨      Translates business objectives and requirements into system deliverables.

¨      Creates various scope options dependent on priorities and cost/benefit expectations.

¨      Identify, understand and document business requirements using use cases and storyboards

¨      Ability to work with remote stakeholders and team members in various parts of the organization.

¨      Coordinate input, consensus and approvals from business clients regarding functional and system requirements.

¨      Facilitate requirements gathering and JAD sessions.

¨      Participate in user acceptance testing sessions.

¨      Document current and future business processes and provides guidance based on similar projects.

¨      Understand how the business analysts’ deliverables impact other teams and their ability to implement the appropriate systems.

¨      Perform walk-throughs on paper-based prototypes.

¨      Identify and escalate issues and risks early to minimize impact to the overall project schedule.

¨      Ensure the traceability of requirements throughout the project lifecycle, within a division/project.

¨      Participate in or coordinate knowledge sharing sessions with the development and test teams throughout design and development stages.

¨      Participate in estimation efforts for new projects and change requests.

¨      Participate in the definition of acceptance criteria and quality metrics.

¨      Participate in post-project reviews with team members and clients.

Basic Qualifications:

¨      Bachelor’s degree

¨      8+ years work experience in an Information Systems development environment.

¨      5+ years leadership skills including creativity, team building, and negotiation techniques.

¨      5+ years experience writing clear and concise requirements and business communications.

¨      5+ years experience in leading facilitated sessions with business partners.

¨      5+ years experience working with technical teams and serving as a translator between business and technical jargon.

¨      3+ years experience with requirements traceability, wireframe development and the iterative development process.

¨      3+ years experience developing use cases

¨      3+ years experience with data mapping and process mapping.

¨      5+ years experience with a formal IS delivery methodology (e.g., ADM).

¨      5+ years experience with the Microsoft Office suite

¨      Ability to travel up to 10%.

Preferred Qualifications:

¨      BA or PM certification.

¨      Experience working on International projects in addition to experience in training users of diverse cultural backgrounds.

¨      Experience interfacing with back-office financial and enterprise applications.

¨      Experience supporting and developing for a company with a large field sales force.

¨      Experience with Web and mobile applications.

¨      Experience with Lean Six Sigma projects

 Help drive requirements to ensure compliance and safety in the clinical and pharmaceutical industries.

We believe in change. We believe in supporting leaders in socially good organizations and industries to drive innovation and change to make the world a better place.  Believe in work that matters.

 Collective Genius (www.collective-genius.com) is currently searching for a long-term consultant to work with a multinational pharmaceutical company. In this role you would be working with clients to elicit and document requirements to help ensure the compliance and safety of pharmaceutical products. There is a lot of opportunity to have a high degree of impact in this critical and high priority project as a liaison between business and technical groups. This is a one year project working with a strong management and business analysis team including Collective Genius and training partner support. The role is located in CT with flexible hours, partial remote work arrangements, and travel options available.

To apply or request more information please reply directly to this posting to geoff.grcevich@collective-genius.com

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Business Analyst – Improve Health Care Claims Applications

We believe in change. We believe in supporting leaders in socially good organizations and industries to drive innovation and change to make the world a better place. Believe in work that matters.

Collective Genius (www.collective-genius.com) is currently seeking a Business Analyst to drive change with a high performance team where business analysis is a highly valued role. One of our current clients is looking for a contract-to-hire business analyst to help them build out a new department within an established company that will be focused on creating more effective and efficient claims systems to reduce waste and benefit their plan members. There is a lot of opportunity to have a high degree of impact surrounding systems requirements and cross-functional group interaction/communication in this role.

Performance Objectives

Gain an understanding of the Rx claims system and business process within the first 30 days

Scope enhancements with stakeholders, complete scope documentation and estimate. Complete
detailed system requirements within the first 60-90 days

Elicit, gather, and document business and detailed system requirements for enhancements to the
claims system from business groups/end users for use by development(≈60%)

Support enhancements and coordinate with QA/UAT/Release etc (≈20%)

Coordinate and act as a liaison between groups for clarification/change controls etc. (≈20%)

Rank High priority competencies

Strong communication ability (written and verbal)

Able to deal effectively with ambiguity and a highly dynamic environment

Able to propose solutions and ID gaps/opportunities pro-actively

Strong relationship building and negotiation abilities

Able to lead within the role / Challenge stakeholders when appropriate

Exceptional BA practice abilities and understanding of app dev best practices from a BA perspective

To apply or request more information please reply directly to this posting at HR@collective-genius.com

We believe in change. We believe in connecting top performers with the right leaders allowing them to reach their full potential and drive positive change in their organizations, markets, and communities.. Believe in work that matters.

www.collective-genius.com

Collective Genius (www.collective-genius.com) is  currently seeking a Business Analyst to drive change with an innovative high performance company in the web 2.0, CRM, and SaaS/cloud computing space.

The company is known for their flexible, entrepreneurial, and fun environment.  There’s a lot of opportunity to have a direct impact of the success of the group in this regular FTE opening in a variety of areas of business analysis – Take a look:

Objectives

Elicit and build user requirements via individual interviews, remote interviews, and facilitated

workshops

Create business requirement and technical specification documentation

Act as a liaison between technical, business, client, and internal groups

Create requirements planning documentation

Create business process design documentation (process maps, workflow diagrams, swim lane etc.)

ID gaps, opportunities, and provide recommendations/input on project scope

High priority competencies

Excellent client facing and internal communication abilities

Strong cross-group process facilitation ability

Salesforce.com backend configuration and set up experience

Strong cultural fit: (entrepreneurial, fast-paced, high-performance, fun)

Desired but not required

Experience in web based Java, .NET, SaaS environments

CBAP or other formal BA certification / training

To apply or request more information please reply directly to this posting.

www.collective-genius.com or hr (at) collective-genius.com