Business Transformation Expert for Cannabis Industry

2 weeks ago


Old Toronto, Canada OCS Ontario Cannabis Store Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Business Transformation Analyst to join our Strategy & Transformation team at OCS Ontario Cannabis Store. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in driving business growth and transformation through your expertise in identifying, analyzing, and facilitating capability modeling and business case development.

Your responsibilities will include developing and maintaining key stakeholder relationships, modeling and assessing current processes through facilitation of brainstorming workshops with stakeholders, as well as analysis of existing documentation. You will critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources to understand stakeholder needs and build a full picture, facilitate discussions to identify target operating models and document the conceptual target state and its processes, addressing current state gaps, needs, and pain points.

You will also research and conduct data gathering exercises to support options and recommendations, collaborate cross-functionally to develop options and recommendations to meet a business objective, gather requirements and document detailed business requirements, use cases and user stories, elicit, document, validate and prioritize functional and non-functional system requirements in collaboration with business clients, end users and project stakeholders, apply expert elicitation techniques to probe, challenge, and understand business needs, and influence and provide advice to business and IT stakeholders based on a view of the full cross-functional picture.

Additionally, you will assess various options across a defined set of criteria, conduct presentations regarding assessment findings/recommendations, project status and current issues, ensure project delivered on time, on budget and within quality targets, support implementation teams through execution phases to clarify and address gaps in business requirements while maintaining a customer focus, mentor and train junior BAs through methodology and approach, create a safe place for junior business analysts to learn and grow, motivate and inspire others to achieve results, and stay up to date on the retail industry and business trends via participation in professional associations, communities, and individual learning.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will need to have a post-secondary education in Business Administration, Commerce, Engineering, or related field, with 5+ years' experience in a BA or similar role. IT, Development or QA background or exposure is an asset. You must have strong knowledge of the Business Analysis and Business Architecture Frameworks, Change Management Principles, and Project Management, and be able to conceptualize processes into process models.

You will also need to be proficient in writing use cases, business requirements documents, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and have experience in business capabilities mapping. Strong preference for experience in consulting and business transformation is preferred, and Certification in Business Analysis Professional (CPAB) is preferred. You must be customer focused and collaborative, with strong facilitation skills and writing skills, ability to multi-task and work on multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment, ability to work through ambiguity, and ability to work independently.

About the Job

This position offers a hybrid work schedule with a minimum of 3 days/week in-office requirement, which may be more depending on business needs. The OCS office is located near York Mills and Yonge Street. However, OCS reserves the right to change this policy and its office location at any time.

The estimated salary range for this position is $95,000 - $105,000, placement in the salary range will be based on factors such as market conditions, internal equity, and candidate experience, skills, and qualifications relevant to the role.



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