Business Analyst, Software Development

About You

Are you passionate about technology and the pharmaceutical industry? Do you want to be part of the software development team developing new tools and technologies that help drive business excellence? Are you ready to tackle a wide variety of projects related to our powerful enterprise-grade software system? Prescient is looking for experienced talent to join us as a Business Analyst for our growing team in India. Do you have experience in and a passion for:

• Eliciting, analysing and documenting the business needs of stakeholders?
• Collecting, understanding and transmitting business requirements and translating these into functional specifications?
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to analyse, design and ship new features?
• Managing Business Analyst workstreams and being a conduit between a software development team and internal/external clients?

If so, consider turning your expertise into a valuable career at Prescient.

About InflexionRx (Proprietary product of Prescient Healthcare Group)

At Prescient, we constantly strive to evolve and maximise the value of intelligence. InflexionRx is our proprietary software platform designed to enhance how our clients interact with the insight we develop, helping them make quicker, more informed and better aligned decisions.

About the Opportunity

You will be part of a fast-growing PE-backed business that allows high-performing employees to make an impact and contribute to growing the business. You will have the chance to channel your experience into supporting the development of our enterprise software system.

You will be responsible for acting as a liaison between our software development team and their internal and external clients/users and helping them to translate their business needs into software requirements. As part of the software development team, you will help to analyse, document and prepare functional specifications and user stories.

• Reporting: You will report to a Manager within Prescients India office

Roles and Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyse, specify and validate the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users
• Provide the link between the customer, development team and other stakeholders regarding software functionality, throughout the development life cycle
• Work with stakeholders and project teams to prioritise collected requirements
• Produce weekly reports for the manager showing progress against outstanding milestones, status, resource requirements, issues, risks and dependencies
• Develop and utilise standard templates to write requirement specifications and user stories accurately and concisely
• Translate conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to the development team
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
• Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project life cycle; enforce and redefine, as necessary
• Communicate changes, enhancements and modifications of business requirements verbally or through written documentation to project managers, sponsors and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood

Required Experience and Skills:

As an ideal candidate, you will have:

• 4-6 years of experience as a business analyst and a bachelors/masters degree
• Knowledge of the pharma/healthcare domain, preferably from a product development background
• Experience of working in an Agile environment
• Good knowledge of software product development
• Able to exercise independent judgment and take action on it
• Excellent written and spoken English language abilities
• Good knowledge of business analysis tools and techniques such as UML or equivalent
• Proven ability to engage and manage internal stakeholders at differing levels
• Project experience in AI, ML or business intelligence will be an advantage
• Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks while under pressure
• Strong customer service orientation

Personal Specifications

You will possess the following attributes:

• Professionalism: Using both formal and informal processes to obtain feedback on performance and development; developing expertise to meet strategic priorities and company requirements
• Strong Work Ethic: Consistently delivering to expectations and commitments, meeting or exceeding agreed standards by coming up with new ways to overcome challenging circumstances; tracking progress and resolving issues promptly where necessary; taking full responsibility for meeting company goals
• Efficient Time-Management Skills: Finding ways to improve use of time; successfully multi-tasking and appropriately delegating to the benefit of the team
• Ethical Behaviour: Acting and encouraging others to act in line with company and client codes of ethics and processes; accepting responsibility and taking remedial and developmental action when mistakes are made; skilfully managing conflicts and sensitive issues within the team; representing the company and promoting its reputation to a high standard
• Effective Team Interaction: Uniting team members to ensure their work benefits from diverse input, promoting a team ethos across the company and ensuring continued collaboration through effective communication
• Decisiveness: Making informed decisions after careful evaluation of multiple sources and application of intuition and judgment, and upholding company priorities throughout

What We Offer

• Competitive package and remuneration linked to performance
• High-growth, entrepreneurial environment where you can create significant business value and forge your own path
• Platform for accelerated professional development and leadership growth with significant levels of responsibility and accountability

About Prescient Healthcare Group

Prescient is a pharmaceutical services firm specialising in dynamic decision support and the development of product and portfolio strategies. We partner with our clients to turn science into value by helping them understand the potential of their molecules, shaping their strategic plans and allowing their decision making to be the biggest differentiating factor in the success of their products. When companies partner with Prescient, the molecules in their hands have a greater potential for success than the same science in the hands of their competitors.

Founded in 2007, Prescient is a global firm with a footprint in 10 cities across three continents. Our team of nearly 475 experts partners with 27 of the top 30 biopharmaceutical companies, the fastest-growing mid-caps and cutting-edge emerging biotechnology companies, including some of the biggest and most innovative brands. More than 70% of our employees hold advanced life sciences degrees, and our teams deliver an impressive depth of therapeutic, clinical and commercial expertise.

Prescient has been a portfolio company of Bridgepoint Development Capital since 2021 and Baird Capital since 2017. For more information, please visit www.prescienthg.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and fully comply with applicable legislation in all the geographies in which we operate. Applicants are considered for positions without regard to veteran status, uniformed service member status, race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other category protected by applicable national, federal, state or local laws.