BA Manager - QM Team Lead

To complete our IT Technical & Platform department, we are currently looking for a BA Manager - QM Team Lead.

Position Snapshot

• Location: Barcelona
• Type of Contract: Permanent
• Stream: IT Technical & Production
• Type of work: Hybrid
• Work Language: Fluent Business English

The role

• Responsible for the Regional Business Analysts team for T&P Quality Mgmt - provide leadership, guidance, management to achieve team objectives.
• Manage team priorities, tasks, escalations, and quality of delivery. Manage resource planning, resource management to assigned budget.
• Ensure the regional deployment plan(s) are adhered to, escalating issues to ensure timely delivery and end-user satisfaction. Active participation in Global QM networks in alignment with Design & Build and the other Regional counterparts.
• Ensure team meet service level and compliance objectives.
• Oversee the bond between the IS/IT & business.
• Manage a pool of Business Analysts, overall ensuring a deep understanding of opportunities and issues facing business functions and advises on the best solutions.
• Translate business strategies, opportunities, threats and needs into IS/IT product requirements and play a key role within the Product Group Team to specify, test and deploy those as IS/IT solutions.

What you’ll do

• Management of the Regional Business Analyst team for T&P Quality Mgmt: people management and resource management of the team against assigned budget.
• Accountable for the overall planning, management and communication of regional deployments of QM applications, ensuring alignment with global objectives and processes and on-time delivery.
• Regular communication with QM Product Group and Design & Build QM team.
• Accountable that team adheres to Service Level Management best practices and Compliance & Security requirements. Ensures that team works with markets to ensure Security & Compliance requirements are met for deployed applications.
• Ensures that proper resources and attention are given to regional and market testing of QM applications.
• Communicate and work with business leaders to take sound decisions and manage risks.
• Communicate with and influence business leaders to make sound business decisions and manage risks.

We offer you
We offer more than just a job. We put people first and inspire you to become the best version of yourself:

• Great benefits including competitive salary and a comprehensive social benefits package. We have one of the most competitive pension plans on the market, as well as flexible remuneration with tax advantages: health insurance, restaurant card, mobility plan, etc.
• Personal and professional growth through ongoing training and constant career opportunities reflecting our conviction that people are our most important asset.
• Hybrid working environment with flexible working scheme. Our state-of-the-art campus is dog friendly and equipped with a medical center, canteen and areas to co-create network and chill!
• Recreation activities such as yoga, Zumba, etc. and a wide range of volunteering activities.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, related, or equivalent; M.B.A. preferred.
• 10 years of relevant experience of business analysis in a relevant functional area.
• Understanding of QM business processes and ability to translate it into application requirements. Exposure to Best Practices.
• Knowledge on SAP Quality Management and cross-functional integration. IT Implementation experience.
• Other SAP modules, DMO (Digital Manufacturing Operations) and Nestlé QM complementary applications knowledge is an advantage.
• Understanding of reporting needs in Quality Management and exposure to different analytic tools will be considered as an advantage (e.g: PowerBI).
• Experience working in Agile/DevOps environment using design thinking methodology.

Bonus Points if You:

• Capability to adapt communication to different audiences and stakeholders at different levels in the organization and in English.
• Experience working in a global environment and with virtual teams.
• Proven ability to apply problem solving and root cause analysis methodologies on expert level.
• Excellent understanding of business complexity and interdependencies.
• Strategic and tactical thinking.
• Ability to contribute to a high-performing, motivated workgroup by applying interpersonal and collaboration skills to achieve goals.

About the IT Hub
At Nestlé IT, we are a diverse, global team of IT professionals in the biggest health, nutrition and wellness company of the world. We strive to create an environment where people are valued for who they are. We innovate every day through future ready technologies to create opportunities for Nestlé to delight consumers, customers and employees alike. We collaborate with partners around the world to deliver tangible value at global scale. We continuously work to develop our people to be future ready.

About Nestlé
We are Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company in the world, with a presence in more than 185 countries. With net sales of CHF 94.4 billion in 2022, the company has over 291,000 employees and 418 factories in 85 countries. Our values are based on respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity, and respect for our future. Nestlé is dedicated to offering high-quality food and beverage products and services that contribute to the nutrition, health, and well-being of people, pets, and the planet. Additionally, it is committed to being a leading company in sustainability and achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

We encourage the diversity of applicants across gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief and disability.

Step outside your comfort zone; share your ideas, way of thinking and working to make a difference to the world, every single day. You own a piece of the action – make it count.

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