Senior Business Analyst, GES - (MFG & Planning)

Requisition ID: 25399BR Job Title: Sr. Business Analyst, GES - (MFG & Planning) Division: Corporate Business Unit: IT Business Function: Business Sub Function: Country: United States State: CA City: San Jose Shift: 1st Job Description: Key Activities & Accountabilities

Here after are underlined the main activities of the Business Analyst:

- To support the BOM, WIP, Inventory, Costing, Purchasing and Demand Planning (Demantra) Modules in Oracle ERP

- To support the interface of MFG & Planning to boundary applications

- Work with Oracle Metalink support in finding patches or solutions to bugs that are encountered in Oracle ERP

- Work on enhancements to Oracle ERP as requested by business users

- Work on gap analysis, solution specification, design review as well as QA testing for local projects

- Co-ordinate with developers, other business analysts, support managers and DBA's over support issues

- Act as a lead in driving issues to resolution

- Participate in solution design meetings with business teams or other IT teams

- Participate in Test cycles of other projects that impact the Purchasing/Planning area in this division

- To Conduct the solution confirmation activities and the fit/gap analysis, identify key gaps and ensure that the foot print and design meets the local requirements

- Ensure the integration between the project team, Support team and the business community

- Implement approved enhancements and support the project rollouts

- Ensure design fits with current requirements and future business direction

- Ensure processes consistency

- Ensure that Change Management process is followed for all changes to Production System

- Ensure timely issue identification, resolution, and appropriate escalation

- Participate in status review meetings and provide timely feedback to team

- To communicate the functional and process requirements to the development team by developing and maintaining functional specs documents

- To run functional, integration and solution acceptance testing

- To lead functional conversion activities in the specific area of competency

- Reduce our dependency on consultants, in the application area, through an efficient knowledge transfer process

Job requirement

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Business or IT

- Travel to Stryker sites as needed

- 25% average travel

Experience

- At least 5 years of professional experience in Oracle EBS systems implementation activities or Oracle Production Support experience

- At least one full circle implementation in MFG and/or Demand Planning (Demantra) modules

- Experience/functional knowledge of Oracle ERP in any of the following Supply Chain areas is preferable: Inventory, Shipping, Order Management, Advanced Pricing, ASCP, Costing

- Experience in Inventory, BOM, WIP, Costing, & Purchasing is a must

- Experience in gap analysis, functional specs doc creation, design review, creating functional test cases and performing functional testing

- Good communication skills

Competencies

Must

- Oracle eBusiness suite experience in a large distribution business, cross-countries

- Good understanding of the main business functions in large-scale companies

- Strong leadership skills

- Good communication skills

- Business level of English

- Flexibility, availability and ability to travel

- Positive attitude

- General administration, Development, and Quality culture

- Functional and technical specifications writing

- Responsibility, accountability, authority, credibility, and integrity

- Intercultural awareness

- SQL skills

Plus

- Experience in international/medical companies

- Experience in change management Qualifications/Work Experience: Percent Travel Required: 25%