Business Analyst - E- Commerce

Ready to Make an impact?

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full-time opportunity for a Business Analyst - E- Commerce. This role can be based out of one our main offices including: Stellarton, NS; Mississauga, ON; Calgary, AB.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

As a Business Analyst - E- Commerce with Sobeys, you will:

• Work as a liaison among stakeholders to understand the objectives, policies, and operations of various functions within the organization, and recommend solutions that enable strategic goals to be met.
• Responsible for the partnering with Operations to create business cases to justify new initiatives, programs, and services and technology.
• Responsible for the development of business requirements for IT solutions including but not limited to business reports, systems and applications and vendor programs. 
• Hold requirements gathering sessions by identifying the right participants, preparing the appropriate material, reviewing the project scope, and identifying key assumptions.
• Identify opportunities for new and more efficient ways of conducting business based on market research and competitive landscape; ensure proper vetting against regulatory requirements. 
• Meet regularly with the user groups in all divisions to identify opportunities for enhancements and maintain alignment between functional areas.
• Communicate functional developments and enhancements to user groups through various media (Web, Email, On-site training).
• Contribute to the acceptance of applications and application enhancements via a formal test process.
• May participate in the development of user training material as required.
• Seek final sign-off of the detailed business requirements from the business sponsor.
• Improve business processes by defining the existing “As-Is” process and the new “To-Be” process using proper methodologies.
• Assist in project planning and monitoring activities for projects and initiatives with an approved business case.
• Work closely with the Application Developers to provide business requirements translation.
• Work with the application support team to provide clarification of business requirements to aid in the development of solutions to production incidents and maintenance requests.
• Work closely with Operations and support function to outline business requirements and cost/benefit analysis required for the business case.

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What you have to offer:

Your experience and resume will show us:

• An Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science or Business, or 5 years related experience in retail analysis.
• Experience gathering business requirements, business process reengineering, process mapping and application testing.
• Ability to prototype and/or process map at the requirements stage to firm up and validate requirements.
• Ability to complete a detailed business case for incoming project/initiatives requests that include cost/benefit analysis.
• Ability to complete detailed business requirements documents.
• Ability to walk through the detailed business requirements document with the end-users of the system or process and make any final modifications.
• Ability to resolve conflict between functional groups.