Business Analyst - Asset Management

Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) are now CPKC. As the only truly North American railway, we are making big moves! Drawing on our strong foundations and heritage, CPKC moves essential goods across our 20,000-mile network to support economic growth throughout Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Be a part of history as we connect a continent and create exciting career opportunities across our new transnational network. Visit cpkcr.com to learn about the CPKC advantage, our purpose and culture.

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

The Acquire to Dispose (A2D) specialist is responsible for leading business improvement initiatives, gathering requirements, providing subject matter expertise on strategic asset processes, user acceptance testing of SAP and non SAP applications, and driving resolution to complex business issues to improve our systems and technology. In this role, you will engage and collaborate with eight different departments, Engineering, Mechanical (Car + Loco), Railway Technology, Real estate, IT, Industrial Development, and facilities teams to identify opportunities to utilize technology to enable streamlined processes by acknowledging and understanding people, process and technology. The role supports various A2D systems within Canadian Pacific. This position will require providing service, building and maintaining relationships with the business and functioning as a team player. You will also assist with the historic CP and KCS acquisition.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Ability to develop and manage change management tactical plans based on strategy documents
• Roadmap development assistance – work with senior business leaders and Enterprise/Solution Architects to identify, elaborate and plan future integration and transformation programs and initiatives
• Facilitate process improvement through simplification, standardization, and automation processes/solutions
• Gather requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, design thinking, task and workflow analysis
• Performs testing, identify issues with respect to solution performance, communicate required changes to development team and track resolution;
• Demonstrate CP’s leadership competencies
• Business case development – work with business leaders, portfolio management, Enterprise Architecture, and IT delivery teams to develop business cases and funding requests supporting the roadmap
• Ability to adjust to changing priorities and manage customer expectations
• Provides a moderate level of input into system or process availability, in accordance with procedures and policies to achieve optimal performance in the area of expertise.
• Knowledge and expertise to figure out business needs in areas such as Railway Technology, Engineering, Mechanical Services, Real Estate, Facilities and more would be helpful
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, earn trust, build credibility becoming a trusted advisor for the Operations organization
• Lead discussions across the organization to optimize/influence decision making, and drive value

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience with organizational change management
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Mechanical or related field required;
• Experience with gathering requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements and process mapping workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, task and workflow analysis
• Experience developing strategic plans, roadmaps and business cases, having completed multiple projects
• Experience in facilitating process improvement through simplification, standardization, and automation processes/solutions

NICE TO HAVE

• Lean or Six Sigma experience is an asset
• Experience using Design Thinking methodologies to generate innovation is an asset
• Applied understanding of data science

WHAT CPKC HAS TO OFFER :

• Part-time Studies Program
• Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Annual Fitness Subsidy
• Flexible and competitive benefits package
• Competitive company pension plan
• Performance Incentive Program

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

As an employer with North American presence, the possibility does exist that the location of your position may be changed based on organizational requirements.

Background Investigation:

The successful candidate will need to successfully complete the following clearances:

• Reference check
• Criminal history check

Management Conductor Program:

Becoming a qualified conductor or locomotive engineer is the single best way for a management employee to learn the business at CPKC. You may be required to obtain a certification or to maintain your current certification/qualification as a conductor or locomotive engineer.

CPKC is an employment equity employer committed to the principles of employment equity and inclusion. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply including women, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPOC), members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with disabilities. Accommodations for the job application process can be provided, as appropriate, upon request. All applicant information will be managed in accordance with the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)”.

• % of Travel: 0-10%
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Req ID: 101169
• # of Positions: 1
• Location: Calgary, Alberta
• Position Type: Non-Union
• Department: Information Services
• Country: Canada
• Job Grade: Level 4
• Job Available to: Internal & External