Business Analyst (6-months)
Canada, Toronto
Fulltime: 40 hrs a week / CA$ 63000 - 100000 per year
Experience: 4-6 Years
Pharmaceuticals
Introduction
Introduction
We are seeking a strategic and analytically minded Business Analyst to join our client's team. Our client is dedicated to improving lives through the discovery of life-changing medicines, advancing disease management, and supporting patients, families, and caregivers.
What are you going to do
Responsibilities
- Partner with business units to assess current analytics maturity and identify capability gaps.
- Define and prioritize analytics use cases aligned with strategic business goals.
- Support the development and rollout of analytics frameworks, governance models, and best practices.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements for analytics solutions, dashboards, and data products.
- Translate business needs into functional specifications for data integrators, engineers, developers, and BI teams.
- Facilitate workshops to align on KPI definitions, metrics, and reporting standards.
- Drive adoption of analytics and visualization platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) across business units.
- Provide training, onboarding, and support to users to improve data literacy and self-service capabilities.
- Evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies to enhance analytics and reporting performance.
- Work with data governance teams to ensure consistent definitions, data lineage, and metadata management.
- Monitor and resolve data quality issues in coordination with technical teams.
- Promote responsible data usage and ensure compliance with applicable privacy and data protection regulations.
- Define success metrics for analytics initiatives and track performance against business objectives.
- Conduct post-implementation reviews to evaluate outcomes and identify improvement opportunities.
- Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in analytics, data governance, and business intelligence.
Essential skills and knowledgeÂ
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field.
- 3-6 years of experience in business analysis, analytics strategy, or data product management.
- Experience working with datasets from Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, or Health Insurance industries.
- Strong understanding of key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics relevant to the pharma and biotech sectors.
- Proficiency in analytics platforms and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
- Familiarity with data architecture concepts and cross-functional collaboration with data engineers, BI developers, and business teams.
- Experience with Canadian datasets (e.g., IQVIA, EMRs, Claims).
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with data modeling and reporting concepts.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities with attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment and drive alignment across teams.
- Commitment to continuous learning, innovation, and professional growth.
What we offer
What We Offer
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