SiteOps IT Analyst (North America MQ & RD)

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We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

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SiteOps IT Analyst (North America MQ & RD)

Your Role:

The SiteOps team serves the Elanco manufacturing and research and development sites in the North American region. This role is based at the Fort Dodge Manufacturing facility providing IT support primarily for Fort Dodge with occasional support for other manufacturing, R&D and warehousing facilities within North America. The SiteOps team member in this role will closely support our R&D Lab customers in these locations and will need to be able to work across the R&D and Manufacturing Quality Lab boundaries.

The SiteOps IT Analyst must establish close relationships with key business customers to identify business needs and then deploy and support the appropriate information systems to meet those needs.  Solutions might be globally developed/supported applications or locally deployed/supported applications including COTS packages, site-specific solutions, and custom developed applications.  For global applications, the Analyst will provide local support including day-to-day break-fix support, serve as a communications conduit to the global team, provide local validation, and manage deployment and ongoing releases to the site.

For local applications – complete life-cycle ownership will be expected including development or vendor management for contracted or COTS solutions, validation, break-fix, and release management.

The Analyst must develop deep technical experience with assigned technologies and applications.

Your Responsibilities:


* In-depth knowledge of site business processes and how they interact with IT systems.


* Advise and influence business areas during requirements gathering to ensure decisions lead to a solution that represents business needs


* Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis.


* Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret custo...