Lead Business Analyst

About the Company

ZAGENO offers the largest life sciences lab supply marketplace. Our one-stop shop helps scientists, lab managers, and procurement leaders compare products, source alternatives, track deliveries, and communicate order statuses in real time. Leveraging advanced AI, ZAGENO enhances supply chain resilience and makes the customer experience superior, seamlessly integrating with existing systems to boost productivity and make online shopping for research materials convenient, efficient, and reliable.

About the Role

You will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. You'll team with world-class professionals to develop and test strategies that ultimately influence business decisions across pricing, shipping, conversion optimization, supplier intelligence, and operational automation. And you will do it all in a collaborative environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation.

What You’ll Do

• Strategic leadership: Develop business strategies that will drive growth, profitability, and competitive success for ZAGENO in the face of shifting consumer demands.
• Execution & Product delivery: Manage and sequence delivery of business intent, build business requirements and execute against the product strategy. Oversee multiple projects and programs concurrently.
• Partnership: Work closely with colleagues across ZAGENO including: Tech, Product, Lines of Business, and others to drive improvement in quality, volume, service, and profitability.
• Strategic & analytic orientation: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation, and understanding of Statistical / ML models.
• Strong business judgment, leadership and integrity: Should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business.
• Strong executive communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials. Communicate technical subject matter clearly and concisely to individuals from various backgrounds both verbally and through written communication; prepare presentations of complex technical concepts and research results to non-specialist audiences and senior management.
• Clear results orientation: display an intense focus on achieving both short and long term goals. He/she should be able to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment.
• Successful track record of thriving in a fast paced, entrepreneurial and dynamic environment.

The Ideal Candidate

• Inquisitive. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and pushing hard to find answers. You’re not afraid to share a new idea.
• Technical. You’re comfortable developing complex analytical solutions. You have hands-on experience conducting business analyses using open-source tools.
• Innovative. You continually research industry practices and evaluate emerging technologies. You stay current on regulatory changes, state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications and seek out opportunities to adapt to them.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Math, Engineering, Economics, Econometrics, Finance, or Operations Research).
• At least 5-8 years of professional work experience in analytics, business analysis, or data-driven product management.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in the e-commerce services industry, specifically dealing with cross-LOB operations or customer experience
• Proven experience translating high-level business strategy and advanced analytics into tangible products and actionable outcomes.
• 5+ years of experience with Python, R, SQL, and relational databases.
• Proficiency in key econometric and statistical techniques, model design, development, and deployment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.