Senior Advisor - Aravo Requirements Manager & Business Analyst

Senior Advisor, Aravo Business Requirements Lead 

Our Dell Global Operations team operates one of the largest end-to-end supply chains in the world. Through innovation and operational excellence, we help Dell Technologies grow and win in the data decade – and the integrity, ingenuity, and expertise of our team is at work every step of the way.  We deliver Dell’s innovative technology and services portfolio with industry-leading scale and supply chain capabilities, creating an inclusive workplace where team members can reach their full potential.  We care about our impact on the environment, the people, and the companies that make up our supply chain.  Furthermore, we proactively work to mitigate risk that could affect our global supply chain and procurement operations.  The Supply Chain Assurance organization, part of the Global Manufacturing & Operations Technology group, helps safeguard the integrity, security, and resilience of end-to-end supply chain operations. The organization partners across Security, Procurement, Manufacturing Operations, Global Audit and Transformation, Legal, Information Technology, business teams, and the supplier ecosystem to ensure that assurance activities are risk-based, well governed, data-driven, and continuously improving.

As a Senior Advisor, Aravo Business Requirements Lead you, will serve as a senior individual contributor responsible for translating strategic, regulatory, operational, and process needs into complete, configuration-ready requirements for Dell’s enterprise Third-Party Risk Management platform. The role will partner closely with and operate across risk-domain stakeholders, Supply Chain Assurance, Dell IT, solution architects, configuration resources, system integrators, and the Aravo vendor team. The successful candidate will lead complex requirements discovery and analysis, develop high-quality user stories and behavior-driven requirements, facilitate solution-design readiness, maintain end-to-end traceability, and help move approved demand efficiently from business need through design, testing, deployment, and stabilization. 

The role requires the judgment to distinguish business requirements from technical solutions, balance competing demands, surface cross-functional dependencies, and move approved requirements efficiently from initial business need through design, testing, deployment, and closure.

You will

• Lead and continuously improve the end-to-end Aravo requirements lifecycle, from demand intake and analysis through prioritization, approval, design readiness, testing, deployment, and closure. Serve as the central business requirements owner for Aravo enhancements, defects, production incidents, regulatory changes, and platform-maturity initiatives. Establish and govern a structured intake process that captures the business problem, desired outcome, accountable owner, affected users, criticality, regulatory driver, dependencies, timing, and impact of non-delivery.
• Lead stakeholder interviews, workshops, process reviews, and cross-functional working sessions to define business needs and align affected organizations.Translate strategic, regulatory, operational, process, data, integration, control, and reporting needs into clear user stories, functional requirements, business rules, BDD scenarios, and testable acceptance criteria.
• Analyze current- and future-state processes and distinguish process or governance gaps from configuration needs, integrations, reporting requests, defects, product limitations, and non-Aravo solutions. Evaluate and prioritize demand based on business value, regulatory obligations, control exposure, operational impact, urgency, cross-functional dependencies, delivery capacity, and alignment with the Aravo roadmap and TPRM operating model. Maintain the authoritative Aravo requirements register and prioritized backlog, ensuring accurate ownership, status, documentation, approvals, dependencies, decisions, milestones, and next actions.
• Identify and resolve duplicate, overlapping, conflicting, consolidated, suspended, withdrawn, infeasible, or non-Aravo requests and ensure each receives a clear, documented disposition. Establish requirements-quality standards and definitions of ready, ensuring requirements are complete, clear, consistent, feasible, traceable, testable, business-approved, and sufficiently detailed for IT assessment.
• Lead requirements walkthroughs and design-readiness sessions with business owners, Dell IT, architects, developers, configuration teams, testers, implementation partners, and Aravo resources. Manage the business requirements handoff to IT, support solution-design clarification, govern changes to approved scope, and maintain clear accountability between business requirements ownership and technical delivery.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability from the originating business need through requirements approval, solution design, development, test evidence, deployment, and final disposition. Support quarterly planning, IT sizing, scope lock, sprint readiness, user acceptance testing, deployment, and hypercare by proactively managing requirements, risks, decisions, dependencies, and delivery milestones. Lead requirements-governance forums and provide clear operational and executive reporting on portfolio status, readiness, priorities, blockers, dependencies, required actions, decisions, and delivery risks.

Essential Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in business analysis, requirements management, product ownership, enterprise application delivery, process transformation, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience owning an end-to-end requirements lifecycle for a complex enterprise application, platform, product, or transformation program.
• Advanced experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, prioritizing, approving, and governing complex business and functional requirements.
• Strong experience developing user stories, functional requirements, business rules, process flows, behavior-driven scenarios, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience establishing and managing structured demand-intake, triage, prioritization, backlog-governance, and requirements-approval processes. Demonstrated ability to translate strategic, regulatory, operational, process, data, control, integration, and reporting needs into actionable technology requirements.
• Strong understanding of requirements quality, definition of ready, traceability, change control, scope management, dependency management, and lifecycle governance.
• Experience leading requirements workshops, stakeholder interviews, cross-functional working sessions, prioritization forums, and design-readiness reviews.
• Experience supporting enterprise workflow-based applications and assessing the impact of proposed changes on workflows, data, roles, integrations, reporting, controls, and user experience. Experience working across business stakeholders, program teams, product or platform teams, architects, developers, configuration resources, testers, implementation partners, and software vendors.
• Experience supporting Agile, hybrid, or structured delivery methodologies, including planning, backlog grooming, sizing, scope lock, solution design, sprint readiness, testing, deployment, and hypercare. Demonstrated ability to manage a complex portfolio of concurrent requirements, competing priorities, cross-functional dependencies, and time-sensitive deliverables.
• Strong facilitation and conflict-resolution skills, with the ability to establish ownership, resolve ambiguity, challenge assumptions, and drive timely stakeholder decisions.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to distinguish business needs from prescribed technical solutions, platform defects, process issues, governance gaps, and non-technology needs. Proven ability to influence without direct authority and drive accountability across a global, matrixed organization.
• High degree of ownership, judgment, attention to detail, adaptability, and independence in an ambiguous and rapidly evolving environment. Undergraduate degree in business, information systems, technology, risk management, supply chain, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Desirable Requirements

• Direct experience with Aravo or another enterprise Third-Party Risk Management, supplier-risk, governance, risk, compliance, or workflow platform.
• Experience with Aravo workflows, surveys, assessments, supplier profiles, entities, attributes, role-based access, reporting, risk scoring, integrations, issue management, and supplier hierarchy structures. Experience in Third-Party Risk Management, supplier risk, supply-chain assurance, security, privacy, legal compliance, responsible sourcing, environmental health and safety, procurement, or operational resilience. Knowledge of supplier onboarding, due diligence, risk assessments, audits, findings, Corrective Action Plans, exception management, continuous monitoring, contract or control requirements, and supplier offboarding.
• Experience managing requirements for regulatory or audit-driven initiatives where documentation, ownership, approval, evidence, testing, and traceability are essential.
• Experience with supplier data, master-data structures, integrations, APIs, business intelligence, executive dashboards, and enterprise reporting.
• Experience with SharePoint, Jira, Azure DevOps, Power BI, Tableau, ServiceNow, or comparable requirements, backlog, workflow, reporting, or portfolio-management tools. Experience managing implementation-partner and software-vendor engagement during requirements clarification, solution design, testing, deployment, and stabilization.
• Experience developing governance standards, operating procedures, requirements templates, stakeholder guidance, and training materials.
• Aravo product training or Aravo Academy certification. Relevant certification such as CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA, Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, PMP, ITIL, or an equivalent qualification.

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Application closing date: 31 August 2026

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