Senior Business Analyst Operational Technology

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Slough, Berkshire, England
Senior level
Consumer Web
The Role
The Senior Business Analyst in Operational Technology will analyze business processes, define IT requirements, manage project milestones, and work with technical teams to translate business needs into functional specifications. Responsibilities also include conducting needs assessments, overseeing user acceptance testing, and creating training materials.
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About the Team
Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means joining one of the world’s largest, fastest-growing, and most dynamic companies. Stanley Black & Decker is unique in that we’ve got a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn’t stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company poised and ready for the future.
Being a part of our team means living our core values of

  • courage & innovation
  • agility & performance
  • inclusivity & collaboration
  • integrity & accountability

It means thriving in an environment of constant innovation and positive change. It means delivering tools, services, and solutions that the world counts on when it really matters. It means maintaining the highest standards in everything you do, every day.

Key Responsibilities:

Understands business processes, process analysis/management, and their related IT requirements. Drives the definition, optimization, improvement, and approved changes to new and existing business processes. Responsibilities may include providing guidance on development and delivery of documentation and training material.

Key Activities:

  • Conducts business process analyses, needs assessments, and preliminary cost/benefits analyses to align IT solutions with business initiatives
  • Works closely with business users to define and analyze problems and figure out the most suitable technical, application or configuration solutions
  • Defines project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and elements; forming project teams; establishing project budgets
  • Works with Architects and Developers to translate business requirements into functional / technical specs
  • Validates business and technical requirements are met during the project delivery process
  • Oversees user acceptance testing (UAT) activities to ensure business and system requirements are met
  • Assists both innovation and strategy development with subject matter expertise, when appropriate
  • Creates, reviews and delivers end-user documentation (user guide, process flow charts, training materials) and training for accuracy
  • Leads cross-functional projects that span various supply chain entities

Functional Skills

  • Ability to simplify & standardize complex concepts / processes​
  • Application domain knowledge​
  • Business acumen​
  • Business process management & modeling​
  • Facilitation of business requirements workshops​
  • Consultative problem solving ​
  • Stakeholder relationship management​
  • Strong oral & written communications​
  • Requirements definition & management​
  • SDLC / Iterative / Agile / Scrum development​
  • Understanding of future / emerging technologies
  • Strong warehousing operational knowledge

Technical Skills​

  • Proficient in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio, JIRA, Azure DevOps, or other requirements management tools​
  • Knowledge of application and system integration methods and computing environments ​
  • Functional knowledge of:​
    • Systems/capabilities like SAP/Oracle​
    • Warehouse management systems such as Blue Yonder, Manhattan, Oracle etc….
    • Transportation planning systems like Blue Yonder, Oracle, TMC, 3T

Behavioral Skills​

  • Ability to influence​
  • Ability to execute​
  • Ability to prioritize and make trade-off decisions​
  • Adaptability / ability to manage change​
  • Creative thinking​
  • Entrepreneurship​
  • Interpersonal skills​
  • Problem solving / analytical thinking​
  • Influencing skills​
  • Detail oriented 

Education/Experience

  • Undergraduate degree and 6-8 years relevant experience, or
  • Graduate degree and 4-6 years relevant experience.
  • Knowledge of system development methodology, project management, system architecture and analytical/problem solving skills.
  • 6-8 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Physical Requirement/Work Location (On Site Critical, Partial Virtual, Fully Remote)

  • Fully remote with 30% travel.

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are 

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Global Benefits & Perks
You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire. 

What You’ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development: 
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.

Top Skills

3T
Azure Devops
Blue Yonder
JIRA
Manhattan
Excel
Ms Powerpoint
Ms Word
Oracle
SAP
Sharepoint
Tmc
Visio
The Company
HQ: New Britain, CT
26,297 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

For the builders and protectors, for the makers and explorers, for those shaping and reshaping our world through hard work and inspiration, Stanley Black & Decker provides the tools and innovative solutions you can trust to get the job done—and we have since 1843.

You repair your home and car with the tools we provide. Your car and your phone are secured with our fasteners. The things you value most can be protected by our security systems. And the roads you drive on, the bridges you cross, the energy you consume, all of these most likely came to you via one of our infrastructure systems.

We join forces to bring together the best of the best to create practical, meaningful products and services that make life easier—empowering people to do better, safer, more significant work. Innovation and excellence have powered our success, but we know there’s more we can do for the world and those who make it. Across our businesses, we’re investing in breakthrough innovation and digital excellence, striving for outperformance and increasing our focus on social responsibility.

We define success as: delivering value to our customers, colleagues and communities. Our commitment to quality, safety and sustainability helps us on our path to becoming the type of uniquely human-centered global industrial company that keeps every stakeholder in mind, while helping to make the world better.

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