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Qualifications
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Biotechnology, Biology, Agronomy, Breeding or other related degree
- 5+ years of Business Analysis experience or Science related field
The ideal candidate for this position will possess the following:
- Intermediate level understanding of Microsoft Office products including Visio, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Proven ability to interface comfortably at various levels of the organization
- Ability to influence others and drive toward consensus
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to understand the opportunities, identify systems solutions, and define requirements for software development
- Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills, proficiency in team communication and working as an effective team member
- Detail oriented, able to multitask and meet deadlines
- Strong and logical problem solving skills
- Possess advanced analytical skills and be able to think through complex, multidimensional problems and drive solution design and development
- Manage multiple assignments simultaneously and the ability to work independently in a changing business environment
- Be results orientated and able to drive issue resolution
Desired Skills/experience:
- MBA, MS or PhD in MIS/IS, Agronomy, Plant Breeding, Molecular Breeding, Plant Science, Genetics, Statistics, or Chemistry
- Previous work experience in a biotechnology or agricultural industry
- Knowledge of biotechnology or commercial agricultural seed product management
- Experience working in an Agile environment and as part of a scrum team
- Understanding of relational databases and query tools
- Experience creating and documenting detailed requirements, user stories/specification by example, business processes, fit/gap analysis, and business cases for IT software or systems
- Ability to identify system solutions as well as communicate functional design specifications
- Reconcile input from multiple sources to build and drive the feature development plan for an application or suite of research applications