Business Operations Analyst 4

The Business Development and Sales Operations (BDSO) organization supports Lam's Global Customer Operations team by enabling customer success, profitable growth, and predictable business execution. Within BDSO, the Sales Systems and Digital Transformation teams deliver scalable CRM sales system capabilities, process improvements, data and reporting solutions, and user enablement that help global sales, account teams, product groups, and business leaders work more efficiently and make faster, better-informed decisions.

• Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with business, IT/GIS, vendors, Account Teams, Product Groups, Sales Operations, and BDSO stakeholders to clarify needs, manage dependencies, and align on priorities.
• CRM Sales System Delivery: Own and support CRM sales system enhancements from intake through launch, including requirements, design, testing, deployment, adoption, and post-launch support.
• Business Analysis: Document user stories, business requirements, acceptance criteria, process flows, data mappings, business rules, KPIs, and functional specifications.
• Process Improvement: Analyze current-state sales and operational processes, identify gaps, and drive simplification, standardization, scalability, and continuous improvement.
• Testing and Readiness: Plan and support UAT, test cases, defect triage, regression testing, release validation, go/no-go readiness, business sign-off, and hypercare.
• Data, Reporting, and Insights: Improve data quality, reporting, dashboards, and single-source-of-truth practices across CRM, Power BI, SAP CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, and related enterprise systems.
• Adoption and Change Management: Drive user adoption through training, communications, demos, user guides, onboarding, access management, and user support improvements.
• Project Coordination: Maintain project trackers, action item logs, decision records, status updates, open questions, and readiness checklists to keep delivery milestones on track.

Join Lam as a Business Operations Analyst, where you'll spearhead process improvement initiatives. With your systems knowledge and business process acumen, you expertly collect and analyze data, evaluate processes, develop metrics, and identify root causes with data-driven indicators for future improvements. Organizing cross-functional project teams, you communicate team progress and survey best practices, showcasing your commitment to operational excellence at Lam.

• CRM and Sales Systems: Hands-on experience with CRM platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, or SAP CRM; Microsoft Dynamics experience is preferred.
• Business Analysis Skills: Experience gathering requirements, writing user stories and acceptance criteria, documenting processes, mapping workflows, and translating business needs into system requirements.
• Experience: 5-10 years in business analysis, CRM systems, sales operations, enterprise applications, or digital transformation programs.
• Process and Data: Strong understanding of sales processes, opportunity management, pipeline management, CRM adoption, data quality, reporting, dashboards, master data management, and enterprise data governance.
• Delivery and Testing: Experience supporting Agile or Scrum delivery, backlog grooming, sprint planning, UAT, defect management, release readiness, business sign-off, and post-launch hypercare.
• Communication: Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex business and technical topics clearly to internal and external audiences.
• Tools: Familiarity with Power BI, SharePoint, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar collaboration and reporting platforms.
• Change Management: Experience creating training materials, release communications, user guides, and adoption support for business users.

• Preferred: Experience in semiconductor industry, automation, AI-enabled workflows, system integrations, continuous improvement, or Six Sigma methods.

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories - On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. 'On-site Flex' you'll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. 'Virtual Flex' you'll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.