Procurement Analyst

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Business Analyst, you will leverage your strong understanding and working experience with the SDLC to drive business outcomes. You will excel in requirement gathering, analysis, and documentation, utilizing your exceptional communication and analytical skills to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Support the full-lifecycle Government acquisition process.
• Elicit requirements using market research, interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis. Translate information into procurement-ready packages.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Responsible for the analysis, evaluation, approving or redirecting of the strategy, plans, and techniques of pre-award and post-award functions involving highly specialized procurements for several information systems programs/projects.
• Provide Pre-Award Contract Business Support to the PD ALTESS mission by working with Contracting Officers to provide complete, compliant, and accurate documentation that is required for contract acquisition packages.
• Review purchase requests and requirements packages for accuracy and completeness, ensures appropriate funding and required waivers, certifications, approvals, and compliances have been obtained, and resolves problems with requesting activities.
• Prepare and coordinates acquisition plans.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: (Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document)).
• Experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies required.
• Successfully engage in multiple acquisition initiatives simultaneously.
• Work independently with users to define concepts and under of the Government Team Lead.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

None

Required technical and professional expertise

• Experience in supporting the Government contracts process or similar experience in local government or public sector.
• Proven experience in researching, developing and compiling documentation to meet a specified requirement.
• Excellent analytic and organization skills with a keen attention to detail, sound judgement, solid technical skills, communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with customers and IT management and staff.
• Must be self-directed, customer-focused, process-oriented, logical and tenacious. You must be able to develop new ideas for ways to streamline efforts while maintaining quality; must be willing to apply extra effort when it is necessary; must accept responsibility for your own work; and willing to assist others as the situation demands.
• Experience in the full-lifecycle requirements development process preferred but not required. Candidate will perform requirements discovery and formalization in coordination with multiple Government teams.
• May require hybrid/onsite in Raeford, VA as needed.
• Secret Clearance is required.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Strong Analytical Skills: Exposure to analyzing complex business cases and developing process maps to guide technical teams. Ability to break down intricate problems into manageable parts and identify creative solutions. Effective analytical skills enable successful business outcomes.

• Excellent Communication: Experience working with stakeholders to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively. Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders and facilitate seamless collaboration between lines of business and development teams.

• Business Case Analysis: Exposure to analyzing business cases and providing guidance to technical teams to ensure solutions meet business requirements. Ability to identify business needs and develop solutions that drive business outcomes.