Sr Business Analyst

American Academy Of Pediatrics - Itasca, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Itasca, IL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Business Analyst at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is responsible for developing and managing strategic solutions to enhance domestic and global education products, services, and programs. This role involves providing analytics to implement, measure, and optimize performance strategies, while leveraging partnerships to support educational opportunities and revenue growth in alignment with AAP's mission.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate health education market trends to identify new business opportunities for expanding and enhancing AAP educational resources.
• Execute all aspects of business process analysis, including needs assessment, strategic planning, concept development, scope definition, problem discovery, risk identification, and mitigation planning.
• Develop robust presentations to support and define business cases, needs, and processes leveraging information gathered through interviews, observation, research, and business modeling techniques.
• Work with Education and Global Health staff to develop business plans for new courses and learning products optimizing technology opportunities.
• Develop qualitative and quantitative analyses for program planning and monitoring program performance.
• Perform detailed Gap Analysis between current and future state business models.
• Analyze market trends and product sales to make financial projections for AAP educational products.
• Strengthen relationships with current partners and build relationships with medical education leaders, professional associations, NGOs, and government officials.
• Collaborate with AAP marketing, membership, and public affairs staff to create and enhance marketing materials.
• Provide strategic guidance to supervisor on business opportunities to advance department and AAP initiatives.
• Develop and oversee assigned budgets.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business or related discipline required; MBA strongly preferred.
• At least six years' related experience managing new business development initiatives in health-related field required, including some experience with global markets and education products.
• Experience with budget management, facilitating collaboration, and building consensus among various partners.
• Knowledge of medical education landscape and global health care environment required.
• Demonstrated expertise in building business cases using fact-based market research and cost/benefit analysis.

Nice-to-haves

• Fluency in foreign language(s) highly desired.
• Experience with virtual meeting platforms (e.g., WebEx, Teams) and document collaboration platforms (e.g., SharePoint).
• Experience with budgeting software (e.g., Acumatica) preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Excellent work environment
• Recognition as one of the 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work for in the Chicagoland area