g2 Recruitment Solutions - Life Sciences Transformation - Business Analyst

• Location: Antwerp, Belgium (Hybrid)
• Contract: 12-Month Initial Contract (Extension Likely)
• Language: English
• Start Date: December
• Industry: Life Sciences / Healthcare
• Engagement: Freelance

Our client, a leading European Life Sciences & Healthcare organisation, is embarking on a large-scale IT, Cloud & Business Transformation Programme aimed at modernising core business applications, streamlining operational processes, and accelerating their cloud journey.
As the programme enters a critical delivery phase, they are looking for a highly hands-on Senior Business Analyst who can bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technology teams, driving requirements definition, process optimisation, and transformation initiatives across multiple workstreams.
This is not a documentation-only role. We are looking for someone who enjoys being Embedded within the business, challenging existing ways of working, facilitating workshops, and actively shaping future-state solutions.

Responsibilities

• Engage with business and technical stakeholders to understand current-state processes and system landscapes.
• Lead requirements gathering workshops across multiple departments.
• Analyse and document complex business processes, identifying inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.
• Develop current-state and future-state process MAPS.
• Define and document business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Translate business requirements into actionable functional specifications.
• Work closely with solution architects, developers, project managers and integration teams throughout project delivery.
• Support cloud migration and application transformation initiatives.
• Conduct gap analyses between legacy systems and future-state solutions.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment and decision-making workshops.
• Support testing activities including UAT planning, execution and defect management.
• Track requirements through implementation to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across business and technology functions.

• 7+ years' experience as a Business Analyst within complex enterprise environments.
• Proven experience working on large-scale IT transformation programmes.
• Strong background in business process analysis and optimisation.
• Experience gathering and managing requirements across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated experience working on cloud transformation, digital transformation, ERP, CRM or systems integration projects.
• Ability to challenge stakeholders constructively and influence decisions.
• Strong workshop facilitation skills.
• Experience operating in Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery environments.
• Excellent communication skills with both business and technical audiences.

Preferred experience:

• Experience within Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Healthcare or Medical Devices industries.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Experience supporting application migration or modernisation programmes.
• Understanding of regulated environments and compliance requirements.
• Knowledge of data migration, integration projects or enterprise application landscapes.

Key skills:

• Business Analysis
• Requirements Engineering
• Process Mapping
• BPMN
• Stakeholder Management
• Workshop Facilitation
• Gap Analysis
• Systems Integration
• Cloud Transformation
• Agile Methodologies
• User Stories
• Functional Specifications
• UAT Management
• Change Management