wanted: Business Analyst/Project Manager, Cambridge, MA, Contract

Business Analyst/Project Manager, Cambridge, MA, Contract

Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Business Analyst/Project Manager will have the opportunity to work on various projects supporting Oncology RD.

Initial projects are related but not limited to:

• Target screening, identification and validation systems and workflows
• Use of SharePoint to address Oncology communications and collaboration needs
• Systems and workflows

Duties include:

• Working with Oncology researchers and IS support staff to understand business problems; this may include improvements on existing systems, processes and operations
• Proactively gathering requirements, analysing needs and clearly presenting proposals to researchers and management to address issues or improve the business of Oncology RD
• Architecting technical solutions by working with senior technical staff or provide directly depending upon experience
• Managing projects to ensure deliverables are met within budget and timelines while ensure that a high quality solution is provided

The successful applicant will possess the following requirements (items are required unless noted otherwise):

• Strong PM and/or BA skills and experience
• Broad understanding of IT technologies, systems and operations
• Experience with relational databases (basic SQL skills and modelling concepts) is preferred
• Experience with or knowledge of LIMS or ELN systems supporting research biology or chemistry is preferred
• Exposure to scientific application used for reporting, visualization or analysis is preferred, eg Spotfire, Pipeline Pilot, and Matlab
• Exposure to drug discovery process, in either biology or chemistry
• Strong communications and networking skills
• BA skills in requirements elicitation and analysis expected
• Ability to work seamlessly between scientists, drug development project teams, other application support personn el and infrastructure personnel
• Flexibility, especially as related to changing requirements and needs
• Expectation to learn internal waterfall-based methodology
• Knowledge and experience in Agile or Rapid Prototyping considered a plus
• Experience in vendor management
• PMP or IIBA certifications considered is a plus