Business and Technical Analyst, Congress and Events Management Specialist
2 months ago
Astellas Pharma Inc. is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of over 14,000 professionals managing operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. We are a top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the top 10 cancer drug makers of 2024.
Our MissionWe strive to become a cutting-edge, value-driven life science innovator, working at the forefront of healthcare change to turn innovative science into value for patients. Our focus on patients, pioneering innovation, collaborative culture, and the passion of our talented people set us apart.
Job SummaryWe are seeking a Business and Technical Analyst, Congress and Events Management to join our team. As a key player in driving our digital initiatives forward, you will be responsible for understanding the needs of end-users across commercial and medical business domains and utilizing your knowledge and experience in the congress and events management domain to demonstrate how best to meet their requirements using systems/tools such as Cvent, SpotMe, ON24, Impetus, and Veeva Events Management.
Key Responsibilities- Business Requirements Analysis: Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their needs, goals, and objectives, and analyze business processes and workflows to identify improvement opportunities and define requirements for solutions.
- Technical Specification Development: Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications that guide the development of software applications, systems, or processes, ensuring that these specifications meet both business needs and technical standards.
- Solution Design and Recommendation: Work with digital and software development teams to design solutions that fulfill business requirements, evaluating potential technical solutions for feasibility, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with business objectives.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Serve as a liaison between business units and technical teams to ensure clear communication and understanding of project goals, requirements, and constraints, facilitating meetings and discussions to gather feedback and consensus.
- Project Management Support: Assist in project management tasks, such as planning, scheduling, and tracking progress, ensuring that projects stay on track to meet deadlines and budget constraints.
- Testing and Quality Assurance: Participate in the testing of developed solutions to ensure they meet the defined requirements and standards, assisting in identifying and documenting bugs or issues for resolution.
- Training and Support: Develop training materials and provide support to users on new systems or applications, ensuring that end-users are equipped to use the new solutions effectively.
- Documentation: Create and maintain documentation related to business requirements, technical specifications, project plans, and reports to ensure knowledge is captured and shared.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in commercial and medical business analysis at a life science organization.
- Experience with market access and pricing systems/tools.
- Experience in congress and events management domain and systems/tools such as Cvent, SpotMe, ON24, Impetus, and Veeva Events Management.
- Experience in other systems such as Veeva CRM and Adobe Marketo.
- Knowledge and experience in commercial and medical domains in life science/pharma industry.
- Demonstrated experience in business analysis, technical analysis, or a related area, demonstrating a track record of bridging business needs with technical solutions.
- Analytical skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand complex business issues and develop appropriate technical solutions.
- Experience in agile methodology, DevOps, CI/CD principles and practices.
- Technical knowledge: Good understanding of information technology, software development life cycles, and architectural frameworks.
- Communication skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.
- Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a team environment, collaborating with diverse groups of stakeholders, including business users, digital professionals, and management.
- Attention to detail: Precision in documenting requirements, specifications, and project details to ensure clarity and alignment with objectives.
- Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to changing requirements, technologies, and project priorities.
- Familiarity with programming languages, databases, and software development tools is beneficial.
- Certifications in agile delivery methodologies (e.g., Scrum, SAFe).
- Agile champion: Adherence to DevOps principles and a proven track record with CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery.
This position is remote and based in Canada. We recognize the importance of work/life balance and offer a hybrid working solution allowing time to connect with colleagues at the office with the flexibility to also work from home. We believe this will optimize the most productive work environment for all employees to succeed and deliver.
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Full timeAbout the RoleAstellas Canada is seeking a Business and Technical Analyst, Congress and Events Management to join our team. As a key player in driving our digital initiatives forward, you will be responsible for understanding the needs of end-users across commercial and medical business domains.You will utilise your knowledge and experience in the congress...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Full timeAbout the RoleAstellas Canada is seeking a highly skilled Business and Technical Analyst to join our team in Congress and Events Management. As a key member of our digital team, you will be responsible for driving our digital initiatives forward and ensuring seamless collaboration between commercial and medical business domains.As a Business and Technical...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Full timeAbout AstellasAstellas is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of over 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. We are a Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.Job SummaryWe are seeking a Business...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Full timeAbout AstellasAstellas is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of over 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. We are a Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.Job SummaryWe are seeking a Business...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Pharma Inc. Full timeAbout the RoleAstellas Pharma Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Business and Technical Analyst to join our Congress and Events Management team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for driving our digital initiatives forward in an agile organization.As a Business and Technical Analyst, you will work closely with business stakeholders to...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Pharma Inc. Full timeAbout Astellas Pharma Inc.Astellas Pharma Inc. is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of over 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. We are a Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.Job...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Pharma Inc. Full timeAbout Astellas Pharma Inc.Astellas Pharma Inc. is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of over 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. We are a Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.Job...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Full timeAbout AstellasAstellas is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of over 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. We are a Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.In Canada, we are growing to meet the...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Full timeAbout AstellasAstellas is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of over 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. We are a Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.In Canada, we are growing to meet the...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Pharma Inc. Full timeAbout the RoleAstellas Pharma Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Business and Technical Analyst to join our team in the Congress and Events Management department. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for driving our digital initiatives forward and ensuring the successful execution of our business goals.Key ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Pharma Inc. Full timeAbout the RoleAstellas Pharma Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Business and Technical Analyst to join our team in the Congress and Events Management department. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for driving our digital initiatives forward and ensuring the successful execution of our business goals.Key ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Full timeAbout AstellasAstellas is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of over 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. We are a Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.Our MissionWe strive to become a...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Full timeAbout AstellasAstellas is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of over 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. We are a Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.Our MissionWe strive to become a...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Pharma Inc. Full timeAbout the RoleAstellas Pharma Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Business and Technical Analyst to join our team in Congress and Events Management. As a key member of our digital team, you will play a crucial role in driving our digital initiatives forward.Our agile operating model consists of two components – Digital Capability and Digital Execution....
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Full timeAbout the RoleAstellas Pharma Canada is seeking a highly skilled Business and Technical Analyst to join our team in Congress and Events Management. As a key member of our digital team, you will play a crucial role in driving our digital initiatives forward and ensuring the successful execution of our congress and events management strategies.Key...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Full timeAbout the RoleAstellas Pharma Canada is seeking a highly skilled Business and Technical Analyst to join our team in Congress and Events Management. As a key member of our digital team, you will play a crucial role in driving our digital initiatives forward and ensuring the successful execution of our congress and events management strategies.Key...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Pharma Inc. Full timeAbout Astellas Pharma Inc.Astellas Pharma Inc. is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of over 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. We are a Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.Our MissionWe...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Pharma Inc. Full timeAbout Astellas Pharma Inc.Astellas Pharma Inc. is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of over 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. We are a Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.Our MissionWe...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Pharma Inc. Full timeAbout Astellas Pharma Inc.We are a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of more than 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries around the world. We are in the Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.We are looking...
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Markham, Ontario, Canada Astellas Full timeAbout AstellasAstellas is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with a team of over 14,000 managing operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. We are a Top 30 global biopharma company based on global revenues and are predicted to be one of the Top 10 Cancer Drug Makers of 2024 by Fierce Pharma.Job SummaryWe are seeking a Business...
