The Strategic Projects Team is looking for a Business Consultant, Intermediate to support a wide variety of project activities. The successful candidate will assist with planning, programming, budgeting and defending budget estimates and submissions involving the execution of Strategic Projects. The candidate will need the ability to work independently, to perform a variety of tasks related to translating high level functional request to detailed requirements, work with program managers to create budget and cost data to support the requirements. Where appropriate work with the project teams, procurement and finance to establish and manage SOW with vendors.
This position requires excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as excellent organizational and time management skills. Business Consultant, Intermediate must have a working knowledge of office tools, databases, project management software, and project management methodologies, and a developed sense of attention to detail.
Essential Functions:
With IT Partners, Investigates, documents, and analyzes clients' IT requirements in project areas such as new operations, moves, adds & changes (MACs) and Plant Maintenance and Remodels (PR&Ms) with IT solutions support, market research of emerging or available product functionality and operational readiness assessment.
Assesses scope and impact of client business needs to define a project. Works with partnering IT services to accomplish clients business needs
Identifies and documents cross-functional and/or cross-divisional requirements, IT functional requirements, workflow, information sources and distribution paths, and system specifications
Compiles and writes technical documents for team use.
Interprets complex information and communicates this information in writing in documents, presentations, etc.
Designs communication plans.
Develops simple business cases with cost & service dimensions of proposed IT projects that are used at management and executive levels for funding and scope decisions.
Analyzes and defines efficient, cost effective IT solutions that support client business processes and functional requirements for simple IT projects.
Evaluates existing application products that could address client requirements and develops recommendations where appropriate.
Provides guidance and coordination to clients in the planning, marketing, training and operating of automated systems.
Designs and implements training programs for train-the-trainers for clients of new and enhanced applications.
Applies methodologies/standards to requirements analysis.
Follows Service Level Agreements.
Performs risk analysis.
Develops and implements communication and escalation plans.
Supports the development of project plans for specific client's IT projects or project sub-tasks on MAC, PM&R
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience documenting functional requirements, analyzing business processes, and developing business cases to support IT solutions.
- Proficient in the production of various reports, documents, presentations, and charts using Microsoft Office software
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Strong analytical, summarization, conceptualization, and prioritization of skills.
- Strong negotiating, influencing, and teaming skills.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and within tight deadlines.
- Ability to manage rapidly and frequently changing priorities.
- Ability to communicate and interact effectively with all levels of management and technical teams.
- Proficiency of Microsoft Office products, including Visio, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Project
- Demonstrated understanding of the IT projects and IT project delivery lifecycle and structured methodologies
- Exceptional customer service orientation.
- Excellent Communication and problem-solving skills, with experience interfacing directly with business end-users in design and requirements planning
- Strong detailed analytical thinking, problem solving and results oriented skills
- Ability to manage multiple independent workstreams simultaneously
- Proficiency in customer & client relations including team focus, influence, partnership and collaboration
- Ability to work with and establish relationships with virtual national and regional team members
- Self-starter with the ability to work through ambiguity
- Willing to travel 25% of time
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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