Covetrus

Sr. Business Analyst, CRM

Chicago, IL (US) Full time

SUMMARY

Covetrus Enterprise Business Systems Mission: “Partnering with business leaders to deliver awe-inspiring best-in-class enterprise-wide business technologies that propel Covetrus in advancing our industry-leading strategy”  

The Sr. CRM Sales, Service & Marketing Business Analyst is responsible for continuous improvement in the effective use and adoption of the company’s CRM, Sales, Customer Service, Product Support, and Marketing Systems. They work with stakeholders to perform full-lifecycle implementation of technology enabled business processes that make serving our customers more effective and productive. This role performs needs assessment, cost/benefit analysis, project planning, change management, system configuration, testing, training, implementation, and follow up. As functional experts in our CRM and integrated software, they seek to first to leverage our systems existing functionality and commercially available solutions before considering custom programming. Manage projects, delivering simple, quick and meaningful releases to provide value to stakeholders. Manage iterative deployments as warranted.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Partnering with stakeholders in sustaining a continuous improvement environment that keeps CRM, Sales, Customer Service, Product Support, Marketing and related systems agile and aligned with current and emerging business objectives

  • Working as project manager and change manager as needed for small to medium sized projects

  • Creating detailed function design documents and project plans to drive successful implementation and adoption of new or changed business systems

  • Using appropriate tools as required to track tasks and production support or efficient management of information system projects and resources.

  • Receiving, soliciting and initiating business systems needs from users and form solutions that have a measurable impact

  • Engaging directly with stakeholders to prepare requests for approval by performing initial needs assessments, resource, and impact analysis as appropriate for size and scope of request

  • Assisting stakeholders in determining and adopting best practices that are natively supported by company standard or commercially available business systems

  • Translating requirements to perform business system configuration and setup in our major business systems to meet project objectives

  • Preparing documentation, work instructions, and training the end-user community relating to operating procedures for system implementations and changes. Log related configurations with appropriate archiving methodologies for maintenance in future.

  • Providing emergency on-call support to the end-user community for systems in production.

  • Providing business systems capability and process consulting for upper management, and consultants regarding programming standards.

  • Maintaining and enhancing existing applications and responding to user’s questions and problems related to these systems.

  • Collaborating with Enterprise Business Systems, Enterprise IT (Information Technology) Infrastructure & Operations, and business unit dedicated IT teams to keep systems up to date and secure.

  • Other duties as needed or required

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Report to Director of Sales, Service and Marketing CoE

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and/or Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Systems, Computer Science, or bachelor's degree in another field with equivalent Business, Financial or computer science experience

  • 6 - 8 years’ experience in leading enterprise systems teams, preferably with CRM responsibilities

Certificates, License & Registrations

  • None

Competencies (Skills & Abilities)

  • Excellent technical knowledge of CRM, Sales, Customer Service, Product Support, and Marketing Systems

  • Must have a strong commercial outlook and the ability to manage project delivery through internal and external stakeholders.

  • Superior CRM systems knowledge specifically Salesforce.com Sales & Service Cloud with deep knowledge of the capabilities therein

  • Excellent understanding of best business practices

  • Strong proficiency with tools, systems, and procedures

  • Excellent planning/organizational skills and techniques

  • Excellent independent decision making, analysis and problem-solving skills

  • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

  • Excellent presentation and public speaking skills

  • Excellent interpersonal skills

  • Excellent conflict resolution skills and ability to deliver difficult messages

  • Ability to build partnerships at all levels within the company

  • Good negotiating skills

  • Ability to resolve complex issues in effective ways

  • Project management, consultative skills, and ability to manage a budget

  • Specialist in multiple technical and/or business skills

  • Ability to cultivate and develop lasting internal and external customer relations

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Requires working on a computer for hours at a time.

  • 15% to 20% domestic and international travel

  • Evening and weekend work required to accommodate the time zones our business units and contract resources are in as well as meetings, conferences, and deployment schedules.

We offer the following benefits for you to take advantage of while you are here provided you meet the eligibility requirements under each governing program:

  • 401k savings & company match

  • Paid time off

  • Paid holidays

  • Maternity leave

  • Parental leave

  • Military leave

  • Other leaves of absence

  • Health, dental, and vision benefits

  • Health savings accounts

  • Flexible spending accounts

  • Life & disability benefits​

  • Identity theft protection

  • Pet insurance

  • Certain positions may include eligibility for a short-term incentive plan

Salary may vary depending on factors such as confirmed job-related skills, experience, and location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case. Sales Positions are eligible for a Variable Incentive.

The pay range for this position is as follows:

$102,400-$146,300

Covetrus is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.