Alshaya - Senior IT Business Analyst - Retail Domain

I hope you are pretty much contended toward your role, but why not to look if something matches your profile. We are hiring Sr. Business Analyst for our organisation Alshaya.

About Us:

M.H. Alshaya Co. is the retail business of the Alshaya Group, which was founded in Kuwait in 1890 and today represents one of the most dynamic companies in the Middle East. In addition to its retail operations, the Alshaya Group is active in a number of other sectors including real estate, automotive, hotels, trading and investments. We are leading international franchise operator for over 80 of the world's most recognised retail brands including Starbucks, H&M, Mothercare, Debenhams, American Eagle Outfitters, P.F. Chang- s, The Cheesecake Factory, Victoria's Secret, Boots, Pottery Barn and KidZania. The company operates over 3,500 stores across diverse customer sectors: Fashion & Footwear, Health & Beauty, Food, Optics, Pharmacy, Home Furnishings and Leisure & Entertainment.

Alshaya's stores can be found in markets across the Middle East and North Africa, Russia, Turkey and Europe and the company employs more than 50,000 people from over 120 nationalities.

Website- http://www.alshaya.com/

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/m--h--alshaya-co-/

Latest updates of Alshaya: http://www.alshaya.com/en/media-centre/alshaya-news

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Job Location- Kuwait

Role:

Senior Business Analyst is expected to deliver IT solutions that meet business requirements. Success criteria for the role:

Domain knowledge in Retail Demand Planning, Merchandizing for Fashion and Food; ability to convert business need or problem to specific and detailed requirements; ability to work as a team to design, configure, build, test and deliver appropriate packaged software or custom developed solution; ability to define and implement process improvements; expertise in documentation, communication, quality assurance, collaboration, stakeholder and time management;

The below Key Performance Areas include but are not limited to:

- Interpret, understand business drivers as stated in business cases or change requests - conceptualize into viable solutions

- As domain consultant, work closely with customers (business users, stakeholders) to extract requirement details, apply subject matter knowledge and domain experience to suggest better practices, convert requirement details to specifications

- Partner with technical analyst to convert specifications into a design and help build a fully configured, tested and deployable solution; own, engage, and support end to end application change delivery; resolve bugs, defects and issues

- Function as a subject matter expert; develop business analyst talent

- Assist ITBPs and ITSMs in effort, cost or value estimates for business cases or change requests; participate in business need discovery sessions, technology assessment, vendor presentations or other initiatives

- Prepare accurate documentation of requirements, specifications, test cases or other areas where documentation is key

- Identify and recommend business process changes and better practices - saving time, cost or effort; convert to solution

- Be a scrum master, solutions architect, QA engineer, trainer, or change delivery manager as needed; demonstrate agile, lean, continuous improvement practices throughout work method; develop capabilities within domains of interest

- Partner internally (IT) with ITBP, ITSM and PMO to ensure change delivery meets or exceeds customer satisfaction

- Partner externally (customer) with stakeholders at various tiers to discuss requirements, present solutions, evangelize better practices, time management, train users, set and manage delivery expectations

- Partner externally (vendor) with stakeholders at various tiers to discuss requirements, collaborate in solution delivery, manage and report performance, ensure methodology compliance

- Meet KPI targets; support domain leader as backup; actively mentor business analysts

- Discuss or present key subjects in user group sessions; support ITBPs and ITSMs on user adoption as needed

- Develop and manage productivity of a team of 1-8 business analysts

Performance Measurement:

- Performance objectives for the role; Team and Domain KPIs

- IT organizational objectives

- Alshaya corporate objectives

Knowledge:

- Knowledge of business analysis best practices

- Knowledge of domain subject matter in Retial Demand Planning for Food and Fashion.

- Knowledge of retail business drivers, related process and technology trends

- Knowledge of IT best practices; familiarity with IT architecture and service management principles

Experience:

- - 5 years total as an IT or business analyst with experience in Retail domains

- 1-4 years of post MBA experience in retail domain

- Atleast 2 years experience in configuration, support or extension experience in any of the leading Retail Demand Planning, Merchandizing packages years of experience in implementing/deploying leading package software such as JDA,Oracle, SAP etc.

- - 4 years of experience in developing process and data models, value stream maps, problem statements, solution maps, conducting JAD, RAD, JRP or similar methodology/technique for requirement gathering workshops, agile delivery, etc.

- Experience in the Retail/eCommerce industry; keen appreciation of digital enterprise characteristics

Skills:

- Customer Facing

- Analytical and Problem Solving

- People management

- Quick learning

- Multi level stakeholder management

- Team development, time management, crisis management

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