Business Analyst with Pharma Domain

Functional Business Analyst with Clinical experience

Location: Foster City, CA

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Functional Business Analyst with strong clinical supply chain planning and CDOP (Clinical Development Operations Plan) process experience. The role will support business process definition, requirements gathering, documentation, data readiness, testing, and user enablement for clinical supply planning initiatives. The ideal candidate will have the ability to work closely with business, IT, technical architecture, data, testing, and vendor teams to translate clinical supply chain requirements into clear user stories, process flows, data templates, test scripts, and training materials.

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong experience as a Functional Business Analyst, Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, or Product Analyst supporting enterprise business process and technology implementation programs.
• Hands-on experience in clinical supply chain planning, clinical trial supply planning, study planning, demand planning, supply planning, and CDOP process activities.
• Strong understanding of clinical study master data, supply planning attributes, planning parameters, study setup, supply network, inventory, demand, supply, packaging, depot, site, and country-level planning data.
• Experience documenting requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, data requirements, business rules, test scripts, and training materials.
• Experience creating and maintaining data templates for study master data, supply planning attributes, planning parameters, data loads, validation, and migration readiness.
• Experience supporting data cleansing, data validation, source-to-target mapping, data migration, reconciliation, issue resolution, and cutover readiness activities.
• Experience preparing and executing SIT test cases, UAT scripts, regression scenarios, and end-to-end clinical supply planning process test scripts.
• Ability to work with technical architecture teams to capture business process impacts, integration dependencies, functional considerations, and planning data requirements.
• Strong communication, facilitation, analytical thinking, stakeholder management, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience using tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart, Excel, SharePoint, Smartsheet, ServiceNow, or similar delivery and documentation platforms.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, drive follow-ups, support cross-functional workshops, and collaborate effectively across business, IT, vendor, and testing teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Life Sciences, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Prior experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, CRO, clinical trial operations, clinical supply chain, or regulated life sciences programs is highly desirable.
• Experience with planning platforms or clinical supply systems used for demand planning, supply planning, study planning, inventory planning, or supply chain operations is preferred.
• Experience supporting Agile delivery, backlog grooming, sprint planning, requirements traceability, release readiness, go-live, and hypercare activities is preferred.
• Certification in Business Analysis, Agile, Scrum, Supply Chain, APICS/ASCM, or a related discipline is preferred but not required.