Job Description: OEM Sr. Business Analyst

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

The OEM Sr. Business Analyst is a collaborative, cross-departmental position responsible for the organization and task creation of projects for Dealer Inspire’s OEM Brand Programs. This position serves as the crucial link between our Development team and our Program Management team, ensuring communication, expectations, and priorities are aligned for flawless execution.

Our brand partners rely on integrations that form the foundation for the operation of their dealer network and websites. These integrations can include, but are not limited to, Inventory, Analytics, Leads, and Tagging. The OEM Sr. Business Analyst will be the primary driver in ensuring the team possesses the necessary details related to project scope, project timeline, technical requirements, and definition of success.

Essential Job Functions

• Collaborates with internal stakeholders and external clients to identify and understand desired enhancements or modifications, gathering and documenting requirements for proposed solutions/system functionality.
• Assists with project planning by ensuring expectations are clearly stated, communicated, and documented.
• Provides input into project management concerning the scope, impacts, and risks of gathered requirements.
• Collaborates with business and development teams on various items, including creating testing plans, system execution, and production defect management.
• Participates in the final implementation and integration of solutions by monitoring project progress, tracking development and implementation activities, ensuring the solution meets business and brand partner needs, and publishing progress reports.

Requirements

• Minimum of six (6) years of experience in a business analyst role.
• Excellent time management and organization skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to balance demand and prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency with requirements gathering, process, system and data analysis, and solution definition with a customer focus.
• Understanding of how data can flow between systems via integrations/APIs/ETL.

Company Information

At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure, and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, our reputation-based digital wholesale auction marketplace, Dealerclub, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.

Our Values:

• Rise Together: Putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community.
• Open to All: Encouraging open-minded communication because diverse thinking yields better outcomes.
• Caring to Challenge & Taking Ownership: Fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today.
• Doing the Right Thing: Acting with integrity, even when it's hard.

As a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, we are obsessive about the employee experience. We are among the top 20% being declared “Best” of our industry based on six critical factors important to employee wellbeing, such as quality of pay, benefits, work-life balance, and more.