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# Lead Business Analyst (Japanese Proficiency) (Contractual) at Lingaro

- **Company:** Lingaro
- **Location:** Philippines
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/lingarogroup/07658ba4-8dae-43b1-bd5b-9dfc569672b7

## Job description

As a Lead Business Analyst, you will play a key role within the Business Analysis competency, partnering with business and technology stakeholders to drive data-driven decision making, process optimization, and successful delivery of analytics solutions. You will lead requirements management activities, facilitate collaboration across cross-functional and cross-cultural teams, and translate complex business needs into scalable Power BI solutions that create measurable value for procurement and finance organizations.

What You'll Be Doing: Business Analysis & Stakeholder Management Lead requirements elicitation workshops and discovery sessions with procurement leaders, category managers, finance controllers, IT teams, and data owners. Analyze and document current-state and future-state business processes. Contribute to and drive continuous process improvement initiatives aligned with evolving business needs within the procurement function. Facilitate alignment between business and technical stakeholders, ensuring a common understanding of project objectives and requirements. Act as the primary liaison between business users, project teams, and technical delivery teams. Solution Definition & Documentation Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications for Power BI dashboards and analytics solutions. Define data model expectations, calculation logic, KPIs, business rules, visualizations, user stories, and user interaction requirements. Produce and maintain high-quality business requirements documents (BRDs), functional specifications, process maps, data mapping documents, and related project documentation. Review solution designs to ensure alignment with business objectives and requirements. Project Delivery & Governance Support the Project Manager in delivering project objectives on time and within budget. Contribute to scope definition, effort estimation, dependency management, and milestone tracking. Ensure requirements-related issues, assumptions, risks, decisions, and dependencies are appropriately tracked and managed through RAID and Decision Logs. Communicate project plans, status updates, risks, and issues across governance forums and stakeholder groups. Testing, Deployment & Adoption Coordinate and facilitate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test planning, defect management, and stakeholder sign-off. Support deployment and implementation activities to ensure smooth solution adoption. Prepare training materials, user guides, and knowledge transfer documentation. Provide hypercare and post-go-live support to business users and stakeholders. Leadership Provide guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level business analysts. Promote best practices in requirements management, stakeholder engagement, and business analysis methodologies. Drive continuous improvement in business analysis processes, standards, and delivery frameworks.

## What We're Looking For

Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Finance, or a related discipline. Minimum 5 years of experience as an IT Business Analyst. At least 1 year of experience in a lead or senior business analysis capacity. Proven experience delivering business intelligence, reporting, analytics, or dashboard projects. Demonstrated success in requirements elicitation, business process analysis, and stakeholder management. Experience producing BRDs, functional specifications, process documentation, and data mapping artifacts. Hands-on involvement in Power BI implementation projects, including requirements definition, dashboard design, data model reviews, and UAT facilitation. Language Requirements Fluent written and spoken English. Fluent written and spoken Japanese, with the ability to facilitate business discussions and documentation in both languages. Technical Knowledge Strong understanding of Power BI, including: Data modeling and star schema conceptsDAX measures and calculationsRow-Level Security (RLS)Incremental refreshDashboard and report design best practices Knowledge of Azure-based data platforms and modern analytics architectures. Understanding of data integration, ETL/ELT processes, and data warehousing concepts. Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Core Competencies Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities. Excellent interpersonal, communication, and facilitation skills. Strong prioritization, organizational, and time-management skills. Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and competing priorities. Experience working across cross-functional and cross-cultural teams. Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivery excellence.

## Preferred Skills

Experience in spend analysis, spend classification, spend categorization, and procurement analytics. Experience working with ERP and procurement platforms such as SAP MM, SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle Procurement, or similar solutions. Understanding of procurement data structures, including: Purchase Orders Invoices Contracts Goods Receipts Supplier Master Data Material and Service Classifications Familiarity with spend classification frameworks such as UNSPSC, eClass, and custom procurement taxonomies. Experience supporting digital transformation, reporting modernization, or procurement optimization initiatives.

## About Lingaro

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Global end-to-end data and AI partner to leading brands and enterprises, turning complex data into actionable insights and AI-driven automation.
- **Entity Type**: Privately Held (no public funding disclosures; bootstrapped growth assumed)
- **Headquarters**: Warsaw, Poland
- **Founded**: 2008
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: IT Services and IT Consulting; Data & Analytics; AI Services
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large enterprises and global brands, including highly regulated industries (retail, CPG, supply chain, manufacturing)
- **Mission**: Help clients achieve more with data and AI by creating data-driven and AI-augmented experiences that deliver human impact and measurable business outcomes.

## Products & Services
- **Marketing & Commercial Analytics**: Marketing/media effectiveness, sales & channel execution, Revenue Growth Management (RGM), omnichannel commerce & content automation.
- **Intelligent & Resilient Supply Chain**: Demand planning, sensing & forecasting, manufacturing intelligence, inventory optimization, warehouse automation, logistics analytics.
- **Sustainability & Compliance**: Sustainable product intelligence & LCA, decarbonization & net zero pathway, compliance-grade reporting & risk management.
- **AI & GenAI**: Custom AI models, machine learning solutions, automation including GAIA (AI sales & customer support assistant).
- **Data Consulting**: Strategy development, governance frameworks, architecture design.
- **Technology Consulting & Advisory**: Digital transformation guidance, technology roadmaps.
- **Data Visualization**: Dashboards and reporting.
- **Learning Technology & Adoption**: Training programs, user adoption strategies (5x faster adoption with 7 accelerators).
- **Intelligent Operations & Support**: Managed services, 24/7 support, optimization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Over 1,800 employees worldwide (homepage) / 1,092 according to LinkedIn (+3% YoY)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partnerships with leading hyperscalers (not named); no external investors publicly listed.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Recognized as a **Leader in ISG Provider Lens 2025** (Advanced Analytics and AI Services across Europe and the US).
  - **Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For in Europe™** (2024).
  - **Great Place to Work®-certified** in Poland, Philippines, and India (2025).
  - **Best Workplaces™ in Asia** (2024).
  - Supports **75+ leading brands across 30+ countries**.
  - Workforce distributed across 25 countries; operations in 6 countries (Poland, US, Philippines, Singapore, Mexico, Switzerland).
  - Open positions visible on careers page (e.g., Data Engineer, AI DevOps, Supply Chain roles).

## Competitive Advantages
- **End-to-end data & AI services** – from strategy/advisory to implementation, adoption, and managed support.
- **Deep industry expertise** – especially in highly regulated sectors (retail, CPG, supply chain, sustainability).
- **AI adoption framework** – 5x faster adoption via proprietary accelerators and change management.
- **Human-centric approach** – combines design thinking, AI, and human creativity to build user-centric solutions.
- **Global delivery model** – 24/7 support across time zones with strong European roots and global scale.
- **Awards & recognition** – multiple Great Place to Work seals and ISG Leader status validates both workplace culture and service quality.

## Strategic Focus
- **Data and AI readiness** – helping organizations become “data-ready, AI-ready, and future-ready.”
- **Growth in AI & GenAI** – expanding custom model development and automation solutions like GAIA.
- **Supply chain resilience** – intelligent supply chain offerings as a key growth vertical.
- **Sustainability services** – compliance-grade reporting and decarbonization pathways for clients.
- **Geographic expansion** – continues to scale presence in the US, APAC, and Europe.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Great Place to Work®- certified for multiple consecutive years; Fortune 100 Best Workplaces in Europe; Best Workplaces in Asia 2024.
- **Work environment**: Remote and hybrid roles available (e.g., many positions listed as “Remote — Full-time Poland”).
- **Growth & learning**: Strong focus on learning technology and adoption – internal training programs and career development.
- **Global team**: Collaboration across 6 countries and 25 nationalities; exposure to large enterprise clients.
- **Engineering culture**: Heavy emphasis on data engineering, AI/ML, cloud (GCP, Snowflake), and modern tech stacks.
- **Employee rating**: 3.8/5.0 (249 reviews on LinkedIn) with Culture rated 4.0, Work-Life 3.9, Career 3.7.

## Sources
1. [Lingaro Group About Page](https://lingarogroup.com/about)
2. [Lingaro LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lingaro)
3. [Lingaro Careers Page (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/lingarogroup)
4. [Lingaro Group Home Page](https://lingarogroup.com/home)
5. [Lingaro Executive Leadership Page](https://lingarogroup.com/about/executive-leadership-team)

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