Our client is looking for a Senior Business Analyst Manager to work in their Chicago office. This role will focus on software and engineering solutions in the Sales & Marketing Technology Organization. You will be creating and supporting innovative solutions in direct partnership with the Sr. members of the marketing team. The successful candidate will liaise with the marketing team and be responsible for driving the estimates, planning and leading development and support activities that are executed by both internal and vendor resources. Ideally you will be a “hands on” top level Manager who will provide senior level technical and management direction on enterprise level applications and projects across the teams.
Responsibilities:
- Meet with stakeholders, partners, and customers on a reoccurring schedule weekly, monthly, and quarterly to review team priorities and execution, major incidents and problems, and pertinent business and project updates.
- Leverages project management and/or agile software development methodologies to significantly increase the frequency and timeliness of delivering new application capabilities.
- Facilitates clear and consistent communication about schedule, tasks, resources, and budgets to ensure the optimal function of development teams in delivering new capabilities and non-development teams in delivering new business initiatives.
- Communicates with management and team members, and employs strong resolve to keep teams accountable to defined processes and agreed upon priorities.
- Demonstrates strong planning, cost analysis, and capacity analysis skills to anticipate customer and management course corrections.
- Works successfully with all levels of the organization and external partners.
- Acts as the primary interface with third-party contractors and customers.
- Leverage resources and knowledge and manage across functional boundaries to deliver value to the customer and stakeholders.
- Effectively communicate, negotiate, and resolve conflict with and among teams, peers and leaders.
- Run effective meetings and provide accurate & timely communications of objectives, progress, status and issues.
- Properly manage project timeline and financials including budget, cost, invoices, budget supplements, and change orders.
Experience:
- 10 years of experience leading multiple or cross functional application engineering teams responsible for supporting and deploying products or services.
- Proven experience managing software development lifecycle platforms and tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communications, proven ability to develop and deliver presentations geared for Senior and Executive Management.
- Scrum Master certification or similar Agile and/or SDLC certifications are a plus.
- Experience with QA and software analytic tools.
- Experience with User Interfaces and/or SOA concepts is also desired.
If you would like to be considered for the position of Senior Business Analyst, or wish to discuss the role further then please leave your details below. Your resume will be held in confidence until you connect with a member of our team
