Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company which provides a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. The Group believes it is the world leader in food, environment and pharmaceutical products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the key emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing in Europe and the USA.

Group's key figures are approx. 4.2 billion Euros turnover, over 800 laboratories across 47 countries and about 45,000 staff.

Job Description

Role Overview
Eurofins has established a Software Engineering Operation here in Dublin to serve as a Centre of Excellence for all IT Solutions.

We are looking to bring great engineers, business analysts and technologists into the business to build and grow an organization with a start-up spirit, to implement world-class software solutions and the strongest IT foundation possible - Made in Ireland - for a business with an enormous global footprint.

We are on the market for an Agile Business Analyst to work on our ERP platforms for laboratories around driving process. 

Your Main Responsibilities

• Elicit requirements and design specifications using a variety of tools including interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis and workflow analysis.
• Act as a Functional Expert to collect, challenge and agree on business requirements.
• Participate in Agile Scrum activities with the implementation team.
• Translate business requirements into user requirements particularly exercising judgement on simplifying business complexity.
• Use BDD and ATDD techniques to minimise the differences between what is asked by the Business Analysts and what the Developers understand.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal customers under the coordination of the Business Project Manager (BPM) to analyze information needs, functional requirements and deliver relevant artefacts.
• Drive and challenge business unit representatives (Business Process Expert) on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
• Serve as the intermediary between the internal customer community and the software development team through the whole requirements flow.
• Business process mapping – taking processes from As-Is – To Be
• Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.
• Identify Information System weaknesses and develop solution proposals to improve IT and Group systems and policies.
• Support the Business Requirement Owner (BRO) and/or Business Process Experts (BPE) in Business Process design.
• Perform gap analysis and write functional specifications and User Requirements. 
• Actively participate in IT deployments of modules in charge (installation, customization, test development and documentation) in close collaboration with BPM and local IT deployment teams.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Degree in Business or an Engineering Discipline
• Proven track record as an Agile Business Analyst  or Product Owner
• Strong Business Process Analysis and design experience
• Ability to develop Business Requirements, User Requirements, User Stories and relevant artefacts.
• Strong facilitation and listening skills. Strong initiative and results-oriented.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to write technical documentation without support of Developers
• Position entails 25 - 30% travel

Additional information

What we offer:

• A launch pad into various management opportunities – within the many business lines of Eurofins globally – or into the management hierarchy in our different corporate functions.
• The opportunity to grow your skills in a demanding, fast growing organization.
• A chance to become part of a highly motivated international team of professionals.

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