Business Analyst

We are looking for someone who can join our development team as an IT business analyst. We are looking for a candidate to be a partner to the business, understanding their processes and their applications, and working with IT and end users on how we can best support the business.

General:
We are looking for a candidate to join our IT team as part of the applications group, with an eye towards being part of the team for the long term. The right candidate will find a home in our team with opportunities for growth, diverse experience, and rewards for years to come.

The ideal candidate should have the ability to be a quick starter, good communicator, able to work in a small team setting, interact with all levels of the business team, and work with minimal oversight.  With the breadth of our responsibilities, they must be willing and able to pick up new skills and knowledge, and dig into applications and technologies to help support our users.

We are looking for an analyst prepared for the challenge and variety of performing the full breadth of analyst duties, from working with the business on process development and requirements gathering, through working with the development teams to design, test and deliver, including opportunities for leading projects, to understanding and providing application support.

Presence and communication are important, as this role will have high visibility with all levels of business users, both in support of applications, and in discovery and delivery.

We are a manufacturing environment and focused on stability and product delivery. The business has been experiencing steady growth in sales and capacity for many years, and expects the trend to continue.

We have several major projects on the horizon and numerous smaller opportunities for this candidate to contribute to the direction of the team, our processes, designs, and applications, and have direct impact on the business.

Skills and Experience:

Technical

• 5+ years Business Analysis experience with business applications
• Experience as the primary Business Analyst on projects involving significant change, working directly with business users
• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience working in an application development team
• Experience in eliciting, organizing and communicating requirements 
• Basic knowledge in generating process documentation 
• Experience building test plans and conducting user acceptance tests
• Experience supporting production applications
• Experience in analyzing data to draw business-relevant conclusions 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including technical writing skills

Business/Soft Skills

• Good communications skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to take on projects as primary BA and business interface
• Proven experience working with business users
• Collaborating with team members

Other Skills/Experience

• Manufacturing company processes
• Mid-sized company processes
• Experience across multiple functional areas’ processes
• Experience managing development projects in a Scrum/Agile environment
• Experience writing at least basic SQL queries
• Experience training users

Other

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance/Supply Chain Management or other ERP/financial system
• Microsoft DevOps for requirements and work management
• Experience with UI design/user experience
• Development experience
• Experience with QA/testing
• Experience with SharePoint, Power Automate/Power Apps
   

For five generations spanning over a century, Daisy Brand has been a family-owned company committed to providing the freshest, most wholesome dairy products. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas with manufacturing facilities in Garland, Texas (1998), Casa Grande, Arizona (2008), and Wooster, Ohio (2015).

Daisy is the market leader in two billion-dollar categories, sour cream and cottage cheese, and generates over half a billion in revenues annually. Daisy Sour Cream represents 1 out of every 2 sour cream purchases in the United States and is the largest sour cream brand in food service, military, and club. It is recognized by consumers for A Dollop of Daisy, a tagline that put this once small brand on the map. Daisy Cottage Cheese is Americas #1 cottage cheese brand and continues to bring new consumers into the category with its innovative single serve packaging and consistent high quality. Daisy recently expanded into a new category with the launch of two dip products and is in the process of expanding distribution.

Daisy's core values, Clean and Trust, resonate in all aspects of our business operations. In 2008, the Foundation for Financial Service Professionals awarded Daisy the prestigious American Business Ethics award.

While maintaining a strong culture of curious and innovative problem-solvers, Daisy Brand has more than doubled employment over the last 15 years and is continuing to grow. Currently, we are proud to employ over 650 full-time staff across more than 25 states throughout the United States.

At Daisy Brand, we value longevity and aim to foster a working environment where employees can envision a long-term career. Companywide, the average employee tenure stands at over seven years. Our corporate office and sales team each boast an average tenure exceeding eleven years, while our manufacturing facilities also demonstrate strong employee retention with tenures averaging over seven years.

Daisy Brand offers an industry leading benefits package that includes:

• A no-deductible, $0 premium option for employee-only health coverage.
• 401(k) with 50% company match on first 8% of earnings you contribute.
• Safe harbor and profit-sharing company contributions to 401(k).
• Company paid short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Company paid 2X annual salary life and AD&D insurance.
• 4 weeks annual paid time off.
• 20 floating holiday hours and 6 company paid holidays. 
• Extra time off for volunteering.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Fitness membership reimbursement.
• And more

Daisy Brand is a nicotine-free company. Daisy Brand is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans and disabled encouraged to apply.