SpartanNash is a value-added wholesale grocery distributor — supplying more than 2,100 independent grocery retail locations throughout the United States — as well as a grocery retailer, with more than 155 corporate supermarkets in nine states. We also serve the military community through our MDV division; in addition to offering premier fresh produce distribution and fresh food processing through Caito Foods and third-party logistics through BRT.
At SpartanNash, relationships matter, and our Corporate team takes that sentiment to heart in the way we work as one totally aligned team, support and respect each other and share the highest standards of excellence. We’re always looking for the next great idea or a new way to approach a challenge, and we collaborate and innovate to achieve our goals.
A day in the life of the Business Analyst IV is never the same but, in this role, you will be a subject matter expert that combines specialized process and technology knowledge of assigned business area systems to facilitate the translation of business needs into solutions in systems. The Business Analyst IV plays a critical role as a consultant to the assigned business area organization to understand business imperatives, perform feasibility analysis and to translate the business needs into requirements and functional specifications. The position also plays a critical role in bridging assigned business area with technical delivery providers, both internal within SpartanNash as well as external. In addition, it will be a key component part in driving the success of projects, ensuring that the business requirements are adequately considered in the design and delivery of solutions.
What You’ll Do:
•Develop a framework for understanding assigned business area processes and ongoing changes and evolution of these processes.
•Develop in-depth familiarity with an assigned portfolio of assigned business area applications, developing knowledge of how assigned business area users utilize the applications as well as competence in the functionality and capability of the assigned business area applications.
Stay current with the latest capabilities of the applications in the assigned portfolio of assigned business area applications.
•Work closely with assigned business area users on enhancement and project requests to clearly identify and understand business needs and requirements. Lead requirements analysis, validation and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise and comprehensible.
•Work with delivery team leaders and technical architects to assess the feasibility of solutions and to determine the optimal solution approach for delivery. Work with delivery leads on sizing of effort and cost.
•Translate business requirements into written functional and technical specifications and manage changes to the specifications. Review and sign off with business.
•Work with external systems integrators in projects and ensure that the artifacts developed by external partners are appropriate and meets business intent. Provide oversight to development execution and testing for complex projects or solutions.
•Collaborate with business partners to achieve user acceptance of accurate and drive completeness of tests. Work with business users and delivery partners to develop test scenarios and detailed test scripts.
•Ensure changes introduced into the applications are consistent with the strategic direction and long-term viability of the platforms. Drive simplification of solutions and minimize customization.
•The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and levels of work being performed as assigned for this job. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and requirements; additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed.
Sound Like You? Here’s what you’ll need:
•Bachelor's Degree (Required) Information Systems or equivalent combination of education and experience
•Seven Years Business and/or Information Technology experience; must have IT technical knowledge.
•Strong interpersonal and communication skills in order to build effective relationships with business partners and to understand and articulate business needs.
•Ability to lead and manage the work of others, particularly applications maintenance and support vendors and third parties.
•Thorough understanding of all phases of the application life cycle and solution delivery for packaged, web, and cloud-based systems.
•Ability to be flexible about project changes and dynamically mitigate risks with corrective action
The ability to think analytically and solve problems with experience in applying complex requirements.
•Process-oriented with sound judgment, attention to detail, accuracy, and follow-through including the flexibility to perform in an ever-changing work environment. Strong knowledge and understanding of assigned business area principles, practices and procedures.
We are not able to sponsor work visas for this position.
Equal Opportunity Employer – minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity.
