Business Analyst - Adelaide, Australia - Fivecast

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    • Amazing people, fun culture and a pool table
    • Progression opportunities and share options
    About the Role

    Our Business Analyst will manage our vendor relationships, support product management, and lead conduct data driven analyses to maintain our pricing strategies. You will work within our Product Management team to contribute to our competitive positioning to develop product strategies and roadmaps.

    Responsibilities

    Vendor management & assessment
    • Manage ongoing vendor relationships
    • Identify and evaluate vendors
    • Evaluate vendor solutions from technical and pricing perspective
    • Negotiate and manage commercial agreements and contracts with vendors
    • Understand licencing options
    • Maintenance of pricing for contracts and special pricing agreements
    • Maintains ongoing vendor relationships and re-negotiates contracts when required
    Pricing analysis
    • Incorporate new vendors into pricing models
    • Maintain pricing and quoting tools for use by sales team
    • Engage and communicate with cross-functional teams (product, marketing, sales, finance etc.) to gather valuable insights for pricing strategies
    • Produce documentation of results and findings, with the ability to interpret and present back to the business.
    Product definition and specification
    • Assist Product Managers in writing product concepts, technical requirements and other documents in support of product development activities
    • Work with stakeholders to elicit and refine requirements, including clients, other product team members and the Tradecraft team
    • Perform ongoing product user testing to ensure compliance with concepts and requirements
    Requirements:
    • Bachelor's degree in Business or related STEM areas
    • 5+ years' experience in vendor management, technical business analysis, product management, pricing strategy or related fields
    • Advanced level of Excel skills
    • Strong skills across problem-solving, logic and research
    • Strong organisation skills, detail orientated, and a collaborative team player
    • Ability to interpret and analyse complex information, extract meaningful insights and evaluate options for decision making
    • Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to effectively present and discuss complex information, analysis, and findings
    • Experience within a few of the below areas:
      • Maintaining software contracts
      • Consumer facing, complicated web-apps or products
      • Trade studies of technology providers
      • Identifying integration and API requirements
      • Vendor selection and management
      • License terms and contract negotiation
      • Development of licensing models for cloud software
    About Fivecast

    Fivecast is a world-leading provider of cutting-edge digital intelligence solutions. We enable the world's most important public and private organizations to explore masses of data and uncover actionable insights, critical to protecting global communities.

    As a growing start-up with over 100 people globally, all team members are provided with the opportunity to directly contribute to our success, participate in the development of new and emerging technologies and grow their career in a challenging and dynamic high-tech environment. We are headquartered in Adelaide, Australia with teams in Canberra, Virginia USA, and London UK.

    Our Work Environment and Culture

    Our Adelaide based headquarters is a purpose-built tech hub centrally based in vibrant Hutt Street. We moved into this brand-new space in early 2023 to allow for continued collaboration, innovation & growth.

    Our space has been specifically engineered for brainstorming, idea generation, random encounters across teams and to suit our casual, relaxed culture. This has been achieved through amazing features, including an arcade room, pool table, fully equipped kitchens with fruit and snacks, barista quality coffee machine, end of trip facilities (showers, lockers, bike storage, etc), as well as comfortable breakout spaces.

    Fivecast has a connected work culture with team members taking advantage of our social clubs, local cafes, bars, pubs and sporting facilities for team activities. At Fivecast we support flexible work arrangements, have dedicated training programs and clear progression pathways to grow with us.

    Fivecast is an inclusive employer, we value diversity of thought and experience and believe our inclusive culture contributes to our success. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the communities in which we live and work.
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