IT Business Analyst-Direct Hire
AdvanSix plays a critical role in global supply chains, innovating and delivering essential products for our customers in a wide variety of end markets and applications that touch people’s lives, such as building and construction, fertilizers, plastics, solvents, packaging, paints, coatings, adhesives, and electronics. Our reliable and sustainable supply of quality products emerges from the vertically integrated value chain of our three U.S. based manufacturing facilities. AdvanSix strives to deliver best-in-class customer experiences and differentiated products in the industries of nylon solutions, chemical intermediates, and plant nutrients, guided by our core values of Safety, Integrity, Accountability and Respect.
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Why work at AdvanSix?
• We provide benefits that are industry competitive and focused on employee well-being
• Total Rewards program includes a competitive compensation, health, dental, vision & wellness programs, paid vacation, 401K with company matching, health savings programs, disability & life insurance, employee assistance program
• Tuition reimbursement for continued education, certifications, training, and development
• Work within a fast paced and innovative company, meeting passionate colleagues and partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences
Direct Hire/Full-Time opportunity.
Hybrid onsite role in Parsippany, NJ.
Are you an experienced business analyst who enables valuable outcomes; leverages data-driven insights to advance business processes and strategic outcomes? At AdvanSix, Digital Transformation is one of our foundational enablers. We implement robust applications, enabling efficient business processes, and meaningful insights that help employees do their best work. Join a growing, contemporary IT team in this key role with opportunity to grow. You will play a pivotal role understanding and bridging gaps between business objectives and technology solutions. You will analyze and solve problems to help meet organizational objectives, acting as a liaison with multiple functions and operations to assess areas for improvement and recommend data-driven solutions. At AdvanSix, we are our customers’ trusted partner for Advantaged Chemistries by caring, innovating, and advancing together. We value diversity and promote inclusivity. Join the AdvanSix family today and advance with us!
What you’ll be doing:
- Data Analysis and Process Optimization: Partner with functional teams (for example – HR, Sales and Commercial teams) to gather and analyze business process/data to identify needs and recommend solutions. Analyze industry trends and best practices.
- Identify value driven opportunities and drive POCs with clear outcomes: Identify improvement opportunities to advance individual and organizational capabilities; partner with third parties to articulate high level solution requirements, ensuring stakeholder alignment; when appropriate, plan & lead proof of concepts to validate solution.
- Requirements gathering and documentation: Translate stakeholder needs into clear, well-structured requirements including functional specifications, practitioner stories, and process flows.
Drive data driven decision-making to enhance ‘fit for purpose’ business processes: Assist functional managers in making decisions based on data insights enabling the organization to improve digital acumen; Define outcome-based business process transformation; explore and implement opportunities for process automation.
Champion Change Management: Understand process change required to adopt new technology, effectively communicate benefits, and drive organizational change management; motivate affected individuals to embrace change.
Risk Management: Identify potential risks of change and recommend mitigations.
Champion for Standardization: Drive standardization by leveraging of out of the box system and simplification of existing processes.
What you’ll bring to the table:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field with minimum of 3 years relevant experience or relevant work experience.
- Experience should include work as a business analyst with one or more functional areas.
- Strong knowledge of business applications such as SAP, other ERP systems, or other contemporary technologies
- Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and/or DevOps methodologies a plus
What will enable your success:
- Collaborates with stakeholders effectively; asks thoughtful questions to identify shared interests, experiences, or other common ground
- Strong analytical, presentation, and interpersonal skills including active listening
- Robust diplomatic skills and ability to help team members see value, opportunities, and risks beyond their own area of expertise, strong business acumen
- Ability to enable business, culture, and technology change in a dynamic operating environment; adjusts thinking and behavior resiliently and uses experience to fuel growth
- Dynamic, curious learner with desire to understand new perspectives and opportunities, to explore new ways to solve problems
- Ability to drive accountability within the team and with peers and stakeholders
- Knowledge of trends and contemporary technology advancements
- Please note: This position does not offer visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
AdvanSix is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, veteran status, or any other protected classification.
To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of AdvanSix about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at AdvanSix via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of AdvanSix, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by AdvanSix for this position and a valid agreement with AdvanSix is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the AdvanSix agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.
Other details
- Job Family IT01 - IT General
- Pay Type Salary
- Parsippany, Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ 07054, USA