IT Lead Business Analyst - Commercial Europe

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The Lead Business Analyst is responsible for understanding business needs and processes and to act as a partnered liaison between the business and the technical team. You will be responsible for providing knowledge and expertise to IT, the business and process owners in identifying opportunities for technology and supporting prioritization. You will be responsible for building strong collaborative relationships with the European teams with a specific focus on the Commercial teams. You will be responsible for understanding business processes, eliciting and documenting requirements, and coordinating communication among various business groups and IS technical teams.

Opportunities & benefits that the role offers

• Opportunity to work on fulfilling and future focused projects, which will contribute to our continued growth and success within the region.
• This position offers excellent opportunities of personal development including stakeholder management within an international medical device company, working together with both functional stakeholders, COE team-members and Divisional senior management.
• Help shape the future of the Pricing COE and the Sales Enablement team in Europe, to ensure the team provide best in class service to our commercial divisions.
• Work in Europe's 6th best "Great Place to Work".

Is this you?

You have Experience You at least 7 years' related experience; with process mapping experience required.

You speak Fluent English A key part of this role will be to work with international stakeholders across the world. Knowing one or more additional languages is a plus.

You have a Bachelor's Degree In Business Administration, Computer Information Systems or related degree; Qualification in Business Analysis or equivalent, is preferred.

You are Skilled Within the Following Areas:

• Knowledge of the Medical device industry, pricing/contracting/tender processes and/or consultancy background
• Salesforce.com
• Oracle CPQ
• SAP
• Model N is an advantage

You love a Challenge A self-starter who enjoys problem solving and creating innovative solutions. You can organize and direct diverse activities in a changing environment, often under time pressure.

You Build Relationships Excellent communicator who is effectively able to establish connection and related to business challenges. Next to that, you build and maintains successful relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and customers.

You do the Right Thing You have a high level of integrity, responsibility, discipline, and attention to detail. You understand the importance of keeping tabs of what is always going on in your goals/projects.

What will you do at Stryker?

• Build and maintain strong relationship with the European Commercial teams and functional teams.
• Partner with business and technical teams to drive consensus on the best solution to business problems and the delivery of new solutions and enhancements.
• Improve the business analysis function through best practices, process management, mentoring, and education.
• Define tangible use cases that align desired technology output to commercial objectives.
• Recommend business process and system changes to improve efficiency and business outcomes.
• Ensure clear communication between business stakeholders and IS technical teams.
• Improve the business analysis function through best practices, process management, mentoring, and education.

The Company

Stryker is one of the world's top medical technology companies and together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. The Company offers a diverse array of innovative medical technologies, including orthopedics, medical and surgical, and neurotechnology & spine products to help people live more active and more satisfying lives. Stryker products and services are available in over 100 countries around the world. For more information, please visit our website at www.stryker.com.

About Stryker
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 130 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com.