Business Data & Process Lead
Posted Today by Whitehall Resources
Negotiable
Outside
Onsite
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Summary: Whitehall Resources is seeking a Business Data & Process Lead for a 12-month contract to support a key client in Cambridge. The role involves on-site work, ideally two days a week, and focuses on managing business data processes and stakeholder relationships within the R&D sector. The position is classified as outside IR35, indicating a favorable tax status for contractors. Candidates should possess significant experience in business systems and data platforms relevant to R&D.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Global R&D deployment workstream, ensuring adherence to project timelines and objectives.
- Develop and maintain a clear roadmap addressing both immediate priorities and long-term goals.
- Establish a solid understanding of the technology landscape and analyze existing processes to identify gaps and opportunities.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to capture their requirements and integrate them into the project scope.
- Translate business needs into clear, structured requirements for technical teams.
- Support technical ideation, development, and build, including alignment on control records and entity relationships.
- Work with data product owners to define data products, including source-to-target mappings and required transformations.
- Support SIT, UAT, and change management activities to ensure smooth delivery into production.
- Lead workshops and meetings to collect feedback and devise appropriate action plans.
- Monitor project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies.
Key Skills:
- Considerable experience with business systems and data platforms (e.g., Snowflake) specific to R&D (e.g., Planisware).
- Experience in ERP transformation and business improvement using SAP.
- Strong business analysis experience and knowledge of analytics.
- Ability to lead across geographies and cultures.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Cambridge
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Whitehall Resources require a Business Data & Process Lead to work with a key client on a 12 month contract.
*This role will require on site work in Cambridge, ideally 2 days per week on site.
*Outside IR35.
Typical Accountabilities:
* Support the Global R&D deployment workstream, ensuring adherence to project timelines and objectives
* Develop and maintain a clear roadmap addressing both immediate priorities and long-term goals.
* Establish solid understanding of the technology landscape and analyse existing processes to identify the gaps and opportunities using previous working experience/knowledge.
* Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders (including GPPM, finance, IT teams) to capture their requirements and integrate them into the project scope, defining the relevant end-to-end business processes and data flows.
* Translate business needs into clear, structured requirements for technical teams.
* Support technical ideation, development and build, including:
* Alignment on control records, entity relationships, and persistent identifiers for key data elements
* Working with data product owners to define data products, including source-to-target mappings and required transformations
* Supporting SIT, UAT, and change management activities to ensure smooth delivery into production
* Lead workshops and meetings to collect feedback and devise appropriate action plans.
* Monitor project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies.
Essential Qualifications:
* Considerable experience and exposure to business systems, data platforms (e.g. Snowflake), and those specific to R&D e.g. Planisware (PLANIT)
* Experience in ERP transformation and Business Improvement, using SAP/ experience in technical data roles
* Strong business analysis experience and knowledge of analytics.
* Ability to lead across geographies and cultures.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline
Desirable Qualifications:
* Regulatory experience, e.g. GxP, SOx.
* Bio-Tech, Pharmaceutical or Life Sciences experience.
* Experience in large scale, complex & multi-year projects.
* Workshop Management.
All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.
Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.