Business Analyst - Clinical Development

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements gathering sessions, stakeholder interviews, and workshops across Clinical Development to uncover both stated and underlying business needs.
• Elicit, document, analyze, and validate detailed business and functional requirements, including User Requirements Specifications (URS) for multiple implementation phases.
• Translate clinical development processes into system capabilities and workflows in partnership with business and IT teams.
• Support the implementation and optimization of Planisware for clinical trial planning, program and portfolio management, resource forecasting, scenario planning, and financial and operational forecasting.
• Assist with data migration activities from existing planning tools, including Smartsheet-based processes.
• Collaborate with project managers, implementation partners, and technical teams to ensure requirements are understood and delivered appropriately.
• Support testing, validation, process documentation, and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Business Analyst experience supporting enterprise software implementations.
• Experience working within a life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or clinical development environment.
• Strong requirements elicitation, documentation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively across business and technical teams.
• Hands-on experience with Planisware or comparable PPM (Project Portfolio Management) platforms such as Planview, Smartsheet, or Microsoft Project.
• Understanding of clinical trials, clinical development processes, resource planning and forecasting, and portfolio and program management.
• Experience supporting data migrations and system integrations.
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills and a demonstrated ability to learn new systems and business processes quickly.

Pay

$65-75/hour