<p>Kforce has a client in Kansas City, MO that is looking for a Business Analyst for a contract opportunity.</p> <p>Summary: The Business Analyst is responsible for discovering the underlying business need to be addressed and information related to the product and project requirements, often through conversations with stakeholders. They will also organize, specifying and modeling the requirements to ensure they are complete and unambiguous. They will also be responsible for documenting the requirements by creating acceptance criteria, user stories, or FSD that can be shared with stakeholders. The Business Analyst will also ensure the requirements map to the real business need, are approved by all relevant stakeholders, and meet essential quality standards (including signoff on test case and test approach) and driving issue resolution related to requirements conflicts.</p> <p>Responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li>Manage the maintenance and execution of all UPC add, deletes and price changes from ensuring input into Ahold system and launched to the stores </li><li>Apply appropriate attributes as part of this process </li><li>Run regular file matches of what is in Ahold's systems compared to Hallmark Master UPC list </li><li>Address any differences </li><li>Manage item maintenance and upload for all promotions </li><li>Manage and execute UPC/sku set up for post season markdowns* High School diploma or GED, unless specified that a higher level of education is required for the position or stated otherwise in the job description </li><li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related field </li><li>3-5+ years of practical experience in the role and works independently in complex situations and tasks </li><li>Effective interpersonal and communications skills, customer service focus, leadership abilities, ownership, urgency and follow-through, organizational and planning skills, facilitation skills, and avid learner </li><li>Experienced with selecting appropriate techniques to accomplish business analysis tasks in different situations </li><li>Good working knowledge of most, if not all, areas of business analysis </li><li>Familiar with and have access key Ahold systems to execute this work; In house and remotely </li><li>Able to provide PC and ensure regular access in office and remote </li></ul>