Consultant Task – Business Consultant (Parma), published: 22.10.2020

We are looking for a Business Consultant for our client that is the European Food and Safety Authority’s Service Manager Provider. The company is located in Parma and part of the work can be done remote.

The consultant will work closely with the team based in Parma. In che posit

Main duties

The business consultant will analyze, research, and evaluate EFSA business systems and processes to establish, verify, and document business rules, business process models, business requirements, functional and corporate requirements, and technical designs.

Liaise with business managers and low-level users to understand and document business requirements across affected business areas.

Work with business owners and delivery work-streams to develop optimal solutions.

Develop complete and accurate business models including process, data and organisation.

Skills & Experience

  • Ability to quickly absorb and understand business processes
  • Ability to think creatively and come up with innovative solutions to business problems.
  • Strong coaching, teaching, facilitation, and organizational skills, with a solid track record of developing organizational and individual capabilities; possess and demonstrate excellent analytical and critical skills to assess situations, troubleshoot, and make recommendations from both strategic and tactical perspectives.
  • Excellent Business Analysis and Process skills, including strong knowledge of methodologies, processes, and best business practices.
  • Ability to provide reasonable time estimates and complete assigned tasks in a timely manner with a high level of quality.
  • Excellent professional communication skills for communicating effectively and tactfully with management, business users, and team members.
  • Ability to lead and facilitate meetings and interviews with management, business owners and users to define, establish, and document business objectives and requirements, and foster communications with business users and team members.
  • Fluent English written and verbal, strategic thinking, interpersonal, communication and report writing skills.

A level of education which corresponds to completed university studies of at least four (4) years attested by a diploma in one of the following fields:
Computer Science, Information Technologies, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Business Administration, Business Management or related areas.

  • At least ten (10) years of demonstrated experience specializing in Business
  • Analysis including project experience in full systems development lifecycle implementations and robust, enterprise scale applications or initiatives.
  • Two (2) years or more of demonstrated documentation and process development.
  • Knowledge of standards for the practice of Business Analysis (i.e. Business Analyst Body of Knowledge – BABoK).
  • Knowledge of Project Management industry standards (PMI or equivalent).

Location: Parma
Workload: Possibly fulltime 
Start Date:
ASAP
Duration: Long term (Collaboration starts with a 6-month contract)
Language: Fluent English, Italian is a plus

Are you interested?
If this opportunity interests you and you would like to know more, forward your CV immediately to [email protected], specifying as a email subject the name of the project.