Senior Consultant, Business Analysis

What Business Analysis contributes to Cardinal Health

Information Technology oversees the effective development, delivery, and operation of computing and information services. This function anticipates, plans, and delivers Information Technology solutions and strategies that enable operations and drive business value.

Business Analysis serves as a liaison between the organization's businesses and IT systems development teams to align business strategies and capability needs and to ensure IT systems enable their desired value. This job family identifies and analyzes business needs, defines requirements and objectives, and makes recommendations for solutions using new and existing technologies. This job family researches and documents relationships between the components of the application system (i.e., end users, business processes, data, applications, and devices) and translates business requirements into application requirements.

The Senior Consultant, Business Analysis partners with business leaders and project teams to identify business needs and deliver effective Information Technology solutions. This role defines project scope, facilitates requirements gathering, and ensures solution development, implementation, and change management activities achieve the intended business outcomes.

This position is responsible for deeply understanding the business in multiple functional areas and across business units, as well as understanding the application landscape and its capabilities. Business Analysts maintain strong relationships with the business and helps answer and solve problems the team is having with the systems. Systems leveraged by the team include Alteryx, Tableau, Custom SQL, Business Objects, SAP, Big Query, Manhattan (Score and Warehouse Management).

• Develop and refine strategies for purchasing systems, aligning them with long‑term business and technology goals.
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve issues across both IT and business teams using data mining, system knowledge, anomaly detection, business analytics, and predictive analytics techniques.
• Mediate across different IT teams utilizing knowledge of IT roles and responsibilities within the organization.
• Find ways to improve processes and create solutions that help larger teams achieve goals.
• Lead and prioritize work for IT partner teams, ensuring alignment with business priorities, constraints, and timelines.
• Lead complex projects, including cross‑functional initiatives impacting multiple business units.
• Stay current on industry trends and emerging technologies, applying this knowledge to system strategy, modernization efforts, and process improvements.
• Communicate effectively across cross‑functional teams using diagonal communication to connect stakeholders at multiple organizational levels.
• Focus on process analysis and re‑engineering, with an understanding of technical problems and solutions in both current and future‑state environments.
• Provide data support for projects, including advanced analytics, pattern detection, and insight generation for decision‑making.
• Build, maintain, and enhance reports, dashboards, and metrics.
• Participate in the solutions development process by defining requirements, objectives, and technical business specifications for IT partners.

• 8+ years of experience, preferred
• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
• Strong analytical, technical, and problem‑solving skills, including experience with data mining, business analytics, predictive analytics, or anomaly detection preferred
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives, build cross‑functional relationships, and drive strategic outcomes preferred

• Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects
• Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
• Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models
• Works on or may lead complex projects of large scope
• Projects may have significant and long‑term impact
• Provides solutions which…