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We are currently engaged with a client who is seeking a Business Analyst to join their Business Design, Strategy and Innovations Team who will articulate how innovative consumer product offerings bring value through strategic business models and business cases.  In this role, the Business Analyst will:

• Work with a team that drives innovative ideas and crafts and builds new products, offerings and services by combining strategic thinking, quantitative analysis and human centered design thinking techniques and practices.
• Develop business cases and business models for enhanced and new product offerings and solutions utilizing advanced Excel tool sets.
• Support strategic, product and business model design that includes market and financial analysis.
• Create roadmaps for pilots and scaling of new solutions while identifying which assumptions to test.  
• Work with research resources to define and execute pilots to test solution viability in-market and provide in-depth quantitative analysis of research.
• Work with Business Stakeholders, Technology Teams, Vendors and Partners to define capabilities needed and define delivery roadmaps to deliver a solution and a plan to acquire/leverage them.
• Support the Strategic Design team in understanding business flows, data analysis, business needs, and user insights when applicable.
• Identify existing workflows and integrate new offerings into the current processes; leveraging human-centered design mindset for business units, employees, and customers.

The appropriate individual will have demonstrated experience in the following:

• A background in business analysis, business design or quantitative research that includes:  business modeling and business case development, scenario planning, and forecasting, with deep utilization of MS Excel.  (i.e. Pivot Tables, Sensitivity Analysis, Toggles, True False, etc.)
• Data extraction, data manipulation or data visualization with tools like MicroStrategy, Microsoft PowerBI, SQL or other Business Intelligence tools. (Preferred) 
• Strong quantitative research capabilities.
• A combination of business acumen across one or more of the following areas:  Product Development or Management, Marketing, Strategy, Design, Operations, and Finance.
• A combination of strategic thinking, business ideation, quantitative analysis, modeling and or human centered design thinking techniques that craft and build new products, services and offerings. (desirable)
• A combination of product strategy, service, and innovation design. (desirable)
• An understanding of strategic frameworks and approaches that include (e.g., the Strategy Choice Cascade or DVF, desirability, viability, feasibility).
• A systems thinker who is a team player, flexible contributor, optimistic, iterative, curious, and open-minded.

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We're happy to arrange a preliminary conversation to discuss the opportunity.  Please forward a Word copy of your resume and let us know when there would be a convenient time to discuss. 

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