Summary:The Business Analyst, Lead is an experienced internal consultant responsible for leading cross-functional requirements gathering, business process evaluation, operational analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives across Redwire. This role partners closely with operations, engineering, policy, data, and functional teams to assess business processes, identify risks and improvement opportunities, define requirements and performance measures, and strengthen enterprise process governance. The Business Analyst Lead serves as a key connection point between business needs, process design, policy, and data. The role leads complex analysis efforts, establishes consistent approaches for documenting and evaluating processes, and supports development of data and dashboards that improve operational visibility and decision-making. This position may also lead and develop a small team of Business Analysts, providing work direction, coaching, quality review, and prioritization while remaining actively engaged in high-priority projects.
Responsibilities:- Lead interviews, workshops, and working sessions with site, functional, and business leaders to understand and document business processes, workflows, requirements, pain points, and operational risks.
- Lead end-to-end process assessments and translate findings into clear recommendations, implementation plans, and measurable improvements.
- Establish and maintain consistent methodologies for process mapping, requirements elicitation, process documentation, and operational analysis.
- Lead the definition of KPIs, metrics, and performance measures aligned with organizational objectives and operational outcomes.
- Analyze operational, financial, technology, and governance risks within existing processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, scalability, and control.
- Partners with process owners and policy stakeholders align business processes, procedures, policies, roles, and controls.
- Partner with stakeholders and IT to translate business requirements into dashboard, reporting, and analytics requirements and validate data readiness.
- Support enterprise initiatives requiring cross-functional business analysis, data interpretation, process alignment, or implementation support.
- Facilitate stakeholder alignment and help resolve competing requirements or cross-functional process issues.
- Develop recommendations and executive-ready materials that clearly communicate findings, decisions, risks, and required actions.
- Provide leadership and work direction to Business Analysts, including project assignments, coaching, development, and review of work products.
- Establish quality standards for analyst deliverables and ensure consistency across process maps, requirements, assessments, and recommendations.
- Help prioritize the analyst team's workload based on enterprise needs and organizational priorities.
- Support development of Business Analysis capability, including tools, templates, methodologies, training, and best practices.
Ideal Experience:- 8-10 years of experience in business analysis, process improvement, operational excellence, management consulting, or a related discipline, including leading complex cross-functional business or process improvement initiatives.
- Strong background in process mapping, requirements elicitation, business process analysis, with ability to translate business problems into actionable requirements and recommendations.
- Experience developing KPIs and using operational data to evaluate performance and building dashboards and analytics in tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar BI platforms.
- Experience integrating business process requirements with enterprise systems, including ERP platforms and collaborating with IT to ensure system design, configuration, and workflow alignment.
- Ability to work effectively across engineering, operations, finance, HR, policy/governance, IT, and data organizations.
- Experience facilitating workshops and presenting recommendations to senior leaders.
- Previous experience leading, mentoring, or supervising junior analysts.
- Experience evaluating operational or process risk
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Data / Business Analytics, or Management Information Systems (MIS)
- Must be able to travel up to 20%, to other Redwire locations
Desired Skills:- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capability.
- Advanced process mapping and requirements-development skills.
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to move from ambiguous business problems to structured solutions.
- Strong written and executive communication skills.
- Familiarity with operational workflows, governance, process improvement, risk identification, data readiness, dashboard requirements, and analytical scripting tools.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple cross-functional initiatives.
- Ability to coach and develop other analysts.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Person as defined by ITAR.
- Ability to obtain security clearance may be required
Salary Range:
$115,000 - $140,000/Annually
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