What Business Analysis contributes to Cardinal Health
Information Technology oversees the effective development, delivery, and operation of computing and information services. This function anticipates, plans, and delivers Information Technology solutions and strategies that enable operations and drive business value.

Business Analysis serves as a liaison between the organization's businesses and IT systems development teams to align business strategies and capability needs and to ensure IT systems enable their desired value. This job family identifies and analyzes business needs, defines requirements and objectives, and makes recommendations for solutions using new and existing technologies. This job family researches and documents relationships between the components of the application system (i.e., end users, business processes, data, applications, and devices) and translates business requirements into application requirements.

Job Summary
The Senior Consultant, Business Analyst partners with business leaders and project teams to identify business needs and deliver Information Technology solutions. The Senior Consultant defines project scopes in order to efficiently deliver on the identified business cases and ensures that solution development, implementation and change management activities achieve desired business goals. Through business process improvements and activation of new capabilities, this job enables business units to achieve their operational and commercial objectives. Given the high degree of experience and knowledge required for the role, the Senior Consultant may lead discussions with senior leaders and serve as a solution owner on a project team.

Responsibilities

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions to elicit business needs, pain points, and goals.
• Build trusted relationships with executive sponsors, product owners, and crossfunctional leaders.
• Translate business strategies into clear problem statements, KPIs, and measurable success criteria.
• Facilitate decisionmaking, conflict resolution, and alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.

Business Analysis & Solution Design

• Develop highquality BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process documentation (e.g., SIPOC, RACI, swimlane diagrams).
• Conduct currentstate (AsIs) and futurestate (ToBe) analysis, including gap analysis and impact assessments.
• Define MVP scope, release plans, and nonfunctional requirements (security, performance, compliance, supportability).
• Partner with architects and engineers to shape solution options, evaluate tradeoffs, and derisk delivery.

Delivery & Governance

• Serve as Product Owner / BA Lead for one or more workstreams; manage backlogs, prioritize scope, and refine user stories.
• Drive Agile ceremonies (refinement, planning, demos, retros) or stagegate governance in hybrid/waterfall contexts.
• Create traceability from business objectives to requirements, test cases, and operational metrics.
• Support UAT, defect triage, and readiness activities; ensure smooth transition to operations.

Data & Process Excellence

• Define and monitor KPIs/OKRs, perform root cause analysis, and recommend datadriven improvements.
• Construct reporting/analytics requirements, data definitions, and quality rules; partner with data teams on lineage and controls.
• Lead process reengineering (Lean, Six Sigma) to reduce cycle time, error rates, and costtoserve.

Risk, Compliance & Change

• Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and assumptions; maintain RAID logs.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations (e.g., SOX, HIPAA, GxP, DSCSA, PCI, GDPR) depending on industry.
• Develop changemanagement assets (communications, training plans, FAQs) and support adoption.

Practice & People Leadership

• Mentor junior analysts; improve methods, templates, and best practices.
• Contribute to proposals, estimates, and statements of work; support presales and solution shaping.
• Champion continuous improvement and innovation across the delivery lifecycle.

Location

• Hybrid role
• Ideal candidate will need to be able to work a hybrid schedule - coming into the Dublin, OH office several times a month.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
• 8-12 years of experience in related field, preferred
• Strong communication skills, ability to ask probing questions, lead cross-functional meetings and provide clear status reports to both technical and non-technical team members and executives

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects
• Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
• Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models
• Works on or may lead complex projects of large scope
• Projects may have significant and long-term impact
• Provides solutions which may set precedent
• Independently determines method for completion of new projects
• Receives guidance on overall project objectives
• Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

Anticipated salary range:$105,100-$135,090

Bonus eligible:Yes

Benefits:Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close:03/16/2026 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidates geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.

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Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.