IT Business Analyst with Validation Focus

Are you passionate about getting the most out of IT Systems, helping the business taking the right decisions and creating value to their daily business processes? Do you have experience within requirement gathering and transferring these into actual system configuration, and can you combine this with critical thinking when it comes to documentation?

If so, now is your chance to join our amazing team at Ascendis Pharma as our new IT Business Analyst.

Ascendis Pharma is a fast-growing biopharmaceutical company with locations in Denmark, Germany, the United States, UK, Italy, France, and Spain.

We are applying our TransCon technology to build a leading, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. Guided by our core values of patients, science, and passion, we use our TransCon® drug development platform to fulfill our mission of developing new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs. Today, we have a growing pipeline of prodrug therapies in development, each designed to be a best-in-class therapy.

We are seeking a passionate IT Business Analyst with experience within compliance to join our growing team. As a key member of the product team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring quality and applying a risk-based approach when gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements. You will work closely with stakeholders in the business to understand their needs and translate them into clear and concise specifications for our development team. The position is based in Hellerup, Copenhagen.

You will be joining the Global Support Functions team consisting of 5 colleagues and 3 Student Assistants, and report directly to Lene Larsen, People Managerwho is also based in Hellerup, Copenhagen.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• To collect requirements from the business related to changes to existing systems or projects, and be able to translate these into User Stories (supporting our agile way of working)
• To ensure progress of the tasks at hand and the ability to reach out to stakeholders to collect input, as well as keeping track and ensuring overview of decisions
• To act as a Compliance Manager within the team, ensuring the documentation is fit for intended use to keep the system in a validated state
• To ensure Stakeholder Management by building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders across departments. Facilitate communication and ensure alignment between business objectives and technical solutions

Qualifications and Skills:
You may hold a relevant IT academic degree or something completely different. Most importantly, you can analyze and visualize business needs and help deliver the solutions to those needs.

Furthermore, you have:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst in a technology-driven environment
• Experience within the agile framework and/or scrum
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team and independently when required
• Experience within support and operations in IT System systems
• Experience within test of requirements in relevant tools – e.g. Azure DevOps
• Previous experience in the pharmaceutical industry is highly advantageous

Key competencies:
You are a strong team player, analytical, thrive in an informal working environment where work is fun, and have a can-do attitude.

You possess an entrepreneurial where innovation and change are key.

To succeed in this role, we also expect you to be open minded, not afraid to take risk and decisions, have a compliant mindset.

Travel: 5 days per year.

Office: Ascendis Pharma, Tuborg Blvd. 12, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark.

Apply now.
Applications will be evaluated when received, so please apply as soon as possible.

All applications must be submitted in English and are treated confidentially.

For more details about the position or the company, please contact Line Kok Jensen on M +45 23651992/ [email protected] or Lene Larsen [email protected] or visit out website www.ascendispharma.com

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