What you'll do:
Reporting to the Manager, Enterprise Portfolio Management, this role is responsible for translating business needs into clear, actionable requirements and supporting delivery from idea through to implementation.
- Work with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business requirements for enhancements and new initiatives aligned to corporate strategy.
- Facilitate discussions to validate, prioritize, and refine requirements, ensuring shared understanding across business and delivery teams.
- Analyze current business processes, identify gaps or opportunities, and recommend practical improvements.
- Develop clear documentation, including process flows, use cases, and user stories, to support solution design and delivery.
- Lead requirements activities throughout the project lifecycle, including elicitation, analysis, modelling, validation, and ongoing management of requirements scope.
- Participate in Agile delivery, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and other team ceremonies.
- Maintain and manage requirements in Azure DevOps, including creation of epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria, reflecting how requirements are continuously defined and refined in SCIC’s Agile approach
- Work closely with development and quality assurance teams to clarify requirements, support testing, and ensure solutions meet business needs.
- Support user acceptance testing, helping stakeholders validate that solutions align with requirements and expected outcomes
- Review designs, prototypes, and delivered solutions to ensure business requirements are accurately reflected and aligned to intended outcomes.
Act as a key resource to project teams, providing business analysis support and guidance throughout delivery.
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Qualifications:
To be successful in this position, you will have:
- A diploma in Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field, along with experience analyzing and improving business processes.
- Completion of, or progress toward, a Business Analysis Certificate.
- Strong knowledge of business analysis practices, including requirements elicitation, facilitation, and documentation.
- Knowledge of project delivery and Agile practices; experience working in a delivery team environment is considered an asset.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into clear, structured requirements, including user stories and supporting documentation.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to assess impacts, identify risks, and recommend practical solutions.
- Experience using Azure DevOps or similar tools to manage requirements and support delivery.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and adapt to changing timelines using sound planning and organizational skills.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to work effectively with both business and technical teams.
- An innovative mindset, with a focus on improving and streamlining business processes.
- A criminal record check is required.
- If participating in the Crop Insurance or AgriStability Programs, the employee’s account must be in good standing.
- Candidates selected for this position must provide proof of their educational qualifications. As part of our recruitment process, education credentials will be verified through an external background check provider.
Competencies:
- Service Excellence: Builds strong, collaborative and mutually beneficial relationships with customers. Develops and implements practices and programs that will benefit the organization while improving customer satisfaction and customer experience.
- Personal Leadership and Development: Models integrity and inclusiveness by being open, acting with empathy, sharing resources/knowledge across teams and being respectful of all skills and viewpoints. Recognizes strengths and is open to feedback on enhancing skills.
- Strategic Thinking: Translates high level and complex information into realistic plans. Listens and influences others to generate enthusiasm and commitment to the organization’s vision, values, mission and strategic direction. Commits to achieving success at the team and organizational level.
- Decision Making: Balances risk and potential implications before making a decision. Explains the rationale for decisions and how it may impact the workplace. Able to adapt decisions based on new and changing information.
- Innovation: Thinks outside the box to identify new solutions. Thinks outside the box to identify new solutions. Encourages different opinions and perspectives.
- Analytical Thinking: Asks pointed questions and does research to learn more about the issue. Makes intelligent assumptions to develop explanations and determine possible steps and options. Evaluates the impact of possible outcomes to determine the best possible option.
- Team Collaboration: Develops relationships by establishing respect, trust, support and understanding. Encourages, supports and motivates team members to share ideas, knowledge, solutions or concerns. Seeks the opinion of others when developing solutions.
- Building Organizational Community: Actively builds relationships by establishing respect, trust, support and understanding. Ensures cross-team collaboration for organizational effectiveness. Communicates team objectives and accomplishments both inside and outside the team.
- Communication: Responds to audiences needs by modifying the approach, content or format of the communication. Presents constructive feedback or difficult communication in a manner that supports expectations and fosters an open conversation.
- Accountability: Strives for excellence in personal performance and coaches others to perform at their best. Promotes integrity in others by maintaining consistent values and performance standards. Takes personal responsibility for fulfilling own commitments and the commitments of the team.
- Performance Management: Completes all assigned duties on a consistent basis with energy and drive. Continuously strives to meet or exceed organization and unit goals and objectives. Makes timely decisions to move work forward; takes responsible risks to improve services and achieve goals.
- Planning and Risk Management: Thinks ahead, evaluates risks and plans contingencies. Clarifies outcomes and provides ongoing feedback to team members to achieve plans. Continually adapts priorities and responsibilities in response to changing needs.
Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation (SCIC) is committed to equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility. SCIC welcomes applications from all individuals and encourages applicants to self-identify in their application. We affirm our Commitment to Reconciliation as we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees.
We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. Please tell us of accommodation measures required to help you be assessed fairly. Please note that the information you provide will be treated confidentially.
