IT Business Analyst

Your Opportunity

We have an exciting IT Business Analyst II opportunity in our Merriam, KS office. The IT Business Analyst role is to elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users. This includes interviewing stakeholders and gathering and compiling user requirements to understand the technology solutions they need. The IT Business Analyst II will apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help the business make good technology decisions. The IT Business Analyst II will play a pivotal role in ensuring IT’s understanding of business requirements. 

About Us

At Seaboard Foods, we create the most sought-after pork. A top U.S. pork producer/processor and leading exporter to 30+ countries, we are committed to bringing excellence to the table, seeking a better way to produce wholesome pork and connect every step between our farms and family tables. More than 5,400 employees in five states work on our farms, feed mills, and processing plant to produce Prairie Fresh® pork, ensuring the well-being of our animals, the environment, our employees, and the communities we call home. Our commitment to sustainability is reflected in our renewable gas projects on our farms creating renewable energy. Owned by Seaboard Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, and nominated as one of the “Best Places to Work” by Kansas City’s Business Journal, we have a dynamic culture where our employees can contribute and understand why they matter. 

Responsibilities

• Conduct interviews to gather requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, logical data modeling, and other methods.  Identify project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics.   
• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards. 
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project teams.   
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.   
• Where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on user requirements.  
• Develop and conduct peer reviews of business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.  
• Prioritize, manage, and track the status of requirements, with appropriate stakeholders, throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.   
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements – verbally or through written documentation – to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood. 
• Develop test plan/scenarios/cases and participate in the Quality Assurance of purchased or custom solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.  
• Participate in project initiation on project scope definition and stakeholder identification.
• Assess each project’s dynamics and plan business analysis work to be performed.
• Create and/or update application knowledge base: function/process diagrams and other artifacts, user guide, support troubleshooting instructions, etc.  

CORE COMPETENCIES FOR SUCCESS IN ALL ROLES: instills trust, communicates effectively, action-oriented, ensures accountability, and drives results.

CRITICAL COMPETENCIES FOR SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE: customer focus, tech savvy, decision quality, interpersonal savvy, and situational adaptability.

Qualifications

Required: The details listed below are the required knowledge, skills, and/or abilities to perform this role.  Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions of this job.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the core business process and operations, such as:  Order to Cash, Plan to Produce, Plan to Delivery, Procure to Pay, and other areas to meet company needs.   
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development. 
• Understanding of application development and software development life cycle concepts: design, development, and implementation.  Staying well-informed throughout the life cycle of impact to business and technical requirements.   
• Experience overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products of small-scale projects.  
• Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language. 
• Exceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required. 
• Demonstrated project management skills for building project plans with a Project Manager:  planning, organizing, estimating, and managing resources. 

Work Environment

The physical and work demands listed here represent those an employee should possess to successfully perform the job's essential functions.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Primarily an office environment.
• The hours and days of work are established by departmental needs and at the discretion of management.

Why Seaboard Foods?

• Medical, vision & dental benefits upon hire
• 401K with company match
• Paid Time Off & Company Holidays
• Wellness Program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee pork purchase program

For a complete list of our benefits please visit our career site: https://www.seaboardfoods.com/careers/why-sbf/

Seaboard Foods is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans’ status, status as a disabled individual, or any other status protected by law.