Consultant, Business Analysis

Cardinal Health's Information Technology department is responsible for the development, delivery, and operation of computing and information services. The Business Analysis function anticipates, plans, and delivers IT 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. The role identifies and analyzes business needs, defines requirements and objectives, and recommends solutions using new and existing technologies. It researches and documents relationships between application system components (end users, business processes, data, applications, and devices) and translates business requirements into application requirements.

The Consultant, Business Analysis partners with business leaders and project teams to identify business needs and deliver IT solutions. The Consultant defines project scopes to efficiently deliver on the identified business cases and ensures that solution development, implementation, and change management activities achieve desired business goals. Through business process improvements and activation of new capabilities, the Consultant enables business units to reach their operational and commercial objectives.

As part of the Corporate LRCGQ technology team, this role focuses on supporting pharmaceutical distribution quality and compliance, specifically through implementing and maintaining custom‑developed applications for Controlled Substance Regulatory Reporting.

• Apply comprehensive IT knowledge to solve complex business challenges with innovative, objective‑aligned solutions.
• Manage and contribute to large‑scope projects autonomously, with general guidance on new initiatives.
• Actively practice and promote Agile methods within a distributed team.
• Effectively manage multiple tasks, providing clear workload and priority insights to management.
• May act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues.
• Proactively identify and recommend strategic process enhancements to stakeholders.

• Elicit and translate complex business needs into clear user stories and functional specifications and maintain a healthy story backlog.
• Map end‑to‑end processes, ensuring requirements align with project scope and strategy.
• Mediate and foster collaboration across IT teams to design and deliver solutions, leveraging existing capabilities.
• Lead testing, verification, validation of requirements and solutions, and create test plans and scripts as needed.
• Triage product issues and coordinate timely resolution with relevant teams.
• Write SQL for testing, verification, and ad‑hoc data requests.
• Actively participate in all Agile development lifecycle phases and lead agile ceremonies like stand‑ups, retrospectives, and sprint planning.
• Partner with stakeholders (e.g., Regulatory, Quality) to translate needs into technical solutions.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field preferred, or equivalent work experience preferred.
• 5+ years as an IT Functional or Systems Analyst in a corporate environment preferred, with familiarity in custom‑developed web applications.
• Exceptional communication, listening, and presentation skills; able to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including leadership.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and diagramming tools (e.g., Lucidchart, Visio).
• Solid understanding of database concepts and hands‑on experience with SQL for data querying and analysis.
• Proven ability to thrive in Agile environments, demonstrating strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Strong Jira experience for user story management, sprint/release planning, tracking, and report/dashboard creation.
• Self‑motivated, proactive, and passionate about continuous learning and professional development.
• Familiarity with managing or solutioning applications within cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure) is a plus.

$80,900 - $115,500

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• Medical, dental and vision…