What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Business Analyst position at Semios?
Who we are:
We are a bunch of people who really care about agriculture, food and the challenges facing farming. We want to help farmers with data driven decision making to help nature feed a growing population. Join our team of expert engineers, agronomists, entomologists, crop researchers, and data scientists who are continually conducting research to help drive innovation in agriculture.
Semios is a market leader in leveraging the internet-of-things (IoT) and big data to improve the sustainability and profitability of specialty crops. With 500 million data points being reported by our sensors every day, we leverage our big data analytics, such as in-depth pest and disease modeling, to empower tree fruit and tree nut growers with decision-making tools to minimize resources and risks.
Our innovative work has received several industry awards:
- AgTech Breakthrough Awards Program (2023) - Selected as winner of the “Overall Smart Irrigation Company Of The Year” award.
- Sustainability Changemaker by SDTC (2022) - Named as one of the companies which recognize homegrown innovation in sustainable technologies in Canada.
- AgTech Breakthrough Awards Program (2021) – Selected as winner of the "Pest Management Solutions of the Year" award.
- Google Accelerator (2020) – Selected as 1 of 9 companies for the inaugural Google for Startups Accelerator Canada cohort, who are all using technology to solve complex challenges.
- Global CleanTech Top 100 (2020) – Identified as one of the companies best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges.
One of our partners produced this short video which shows what we do and our positive environmental impact.
We know our journey is only achievable by having a great team who shares ideas, tries new things and learns as we go.
Who you are:
Motivated by meaningful work, you are looking for more than just a job; you want to work for a dynamic, growing company that finds solutions to real-life problems, such as helping the world reduce the use of pesticides and helping nature feed a growing population. Your ideal work environment includes a collaborative team spirit with the opportunity to learn and grow as you take the initiative to try new things.
As a Business Analyst you'll liaise with cross functional teams to deliver processes and systems improvements, leveraging your strong analytical, stakeholder engagement and problem-solving skills. Your will play an important role in elevating our business operations and enable us to achieve operational excellence.
What you will do:
- Analyze business processes and systems, pin point inefficiencies and opportunities including AI-enablement, and propose improvements to enhance operational efficiency.
- Take ownership of gathering and delivering business requirements, end to end process flows and user stories ensuring clarity, accuracy, and completeness.
- Proficiently and succinctly convey the requirements to key stakeholders, ensuring comprehensive understanding of the proposed solutions meeting business needs.
- Apply previous experience and knowledge of business systems and processes, and evolving technologies like Generative AI to provide insights for optimizing business processes like inventory management, field services planning, sales operations.
- Actively participate in driving adoption of processes and systems changes through participation and facilitation of user testing, building and delivering training content development and monitoring user feedback.
- Monitor and evaluate process performance through data trend analysis for further improvements, generating insights and recommendations.
- Contribute to enablement strategy development with a strong understanding of business needs and impacts to influence roadmaps.
- Prepare and present data-driven insights to informed decision-making.
