🚀 Senior Business Analyst – Pharma/Biotech (Supply Chain Focus)
Long‑term Contract / Competitive Day Rate / Remote–Hybrid
Are you a highly skilled Business Analyst with deep experience in pharma/biotech supply chains? Ready to partner closely with business and IT teams to drive impactful process and system improvements? This role could be your next big move.
We’re supporting a global biotech organisation undergoing exciting transformation and they’re looking for a confident, delivery‑focused BA with exceptional stakeholder management skills.
🔍 What You’ll Bring
✔ 5+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst in pharma/biotech
✔ 5+ years’ project management exposure (follow‑ups, timelines, governance, communication)
✔ Hands‑on experience supporting Supply Chain teams across commercial manufacturing, E2E processes
✔ Background in biologics and outsourced manufacturing models
✔ Experience collaborating with IT teams on large, complex programmes — while sitting firmly on the business side
✔ Strong ERP systems knowledge — ideally Oracle (others welcome: SAP, Netsuite, etc.)
✔ Experience from big pharma or consulting strongly preferred
📌 What You’ll Do
You’ll play a key role in shaping and enabling supply chain transformation, including:
• Deeply understanding business processes and recommending effective, scalable solutions
• Contributing to roadmap planning and prioritisation
• Gathering business and data requirements via interviews, workshops, prototyping, analysis and more
• Challenging and shaping business requirements to deliver true value
• Translating conceptual ideas into clear, detailed functional requirements
• Partnering with stakeholders and delivery teams to prioritise needs
• Facilitating alignment and resolving competing priorities
• Creating business cases, scope documents and process flows
• Supporting solution development, testing and deployment
• Leading and participating in UAT
• Documenting current vs future state processes and identifying automation opportunities
• Acting as the bridge between the business and providers
• Managing small projects and performing core PM tasks (planning, follow‑up, reporting)
💡 Ideal For Someone Who…
…thrives in a fast‑paced biotech environment, enjoys problem‑solving, loves working cross‑functionally, and has a track record of driving real operational improvement within complex supply chain organisations.
📩 Interested? Let’s talk.
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