Lead Business Analyst - job 1 of 2

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here

The Lead Business Analyst will play a critical role in gathering, analyzing, and defining business requirements while closely working with Sales & Marketing, Customer Service, eCommerce, Logistics, and Finance teams and translating them into scalable technology solutions. This position serves as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure alignment and successful delivery of initiatives.

Position location – Hybrid (onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) - Deerfield, IL.  

What you will be doing

• Collaborate with cross-functional business teams (Sales & Marketing, Customer Service, eCommerce, Logistics, Finance) to gather and document requirements related to business processes.
• Evaluate current business processes to identify opportunities for improvement, standardization, and automation.
• Translate end-user requirements into epics, user stories, features, and detailed functional specifications.
• Leverage Agile practices for requirements tracking, prioritization, and delivery planning.
• Facilitate communication between end-users, developers, and QA teams to ensure alignment and clarity of requirements.
• Partner with IT teams to support the testing lifecycle, including System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Develop test plans, test scenarios, and test cases based on a requirements traceability matrix.
• Evaluate test results, triage bugs, and develop and execute automation testing scripts.
• Lead or support issue resolution activities and perform root cause analysis within the order management domain.
• Support change management efforts, including user training, stakeholder communication, and documentation updates.
• Conduct product training sessions to onboard and enable end-users.
• Conduct demos of software products to showcase functionality and gather feedback.
• Run scrum meetings to track progress and ensure deliverables align with customer needs.
• Create and present status reports and executive presentations to communicate progress to leadership and stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree - technical degree preferred, but not required
• 5+ years’ experience working in IT as a business analyst on cloud-enabled & on-prem applications and services
• 3+ years’ experience writing system test cases/scripts, executing test scripts, defects management, status reporting
• 2+ years’ experience with scrum, hands-on experience with agile based projects
• 2+ years of experience with SQL based databases
• 1+ years of experience with systems design and development from business requirements analysis through implementation
• Good analytical, oral communication and written documentation skills
• General leadership and management skills
• Advanced communication, negotiation, change management, and conflict resolution capabilities
• ITIL & BA Tools: ServiceNow, Smartsheet, Atlassian Jira, Azure DevOps
• Framework: Scrum, Kanban, CSM
• Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2016+ OR Oracle
• Web & Marketing Tools: Shopify, Microsoft Power Apps. Dynamics 365.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Exposure to Oracle ERP or SAP S/4HANA is a plus.
• Manufacturing domain knowledge
• Certifications like IIBA-AAC, QA Certification, PMI-ACP

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $90,000 USD - $143,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

Equal Employment Opportunity:

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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