Business Analyst - Product Owner - 80% to 100%

About the job

Company Description

With more than 13,000 employees representing 160 professions, the University Hospitals of Geneva are a nationally and internationally recognized institution. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to view our 2025 retrospective by clicking  here .

Convinced that "everyone can make a difference," the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) have established an Innovation Center to improve and advance the hospital. A unique exchange platform, the Center fosters collective intelligence by gathering, valuing, and realizing the best ideas from employees. Both a center of expertise and a collaborative workspace, the HUG Innovation Center (CI) offers a range of services to evaluate, support, mature, promote, and enhance innovative ideas and projects from HUG employees and structures. As a laboratory for experimentation, a catalyst for change and participatory approaches, the Innovation Center's mission is to stimulate the deployment of an innovation culture within HUG.  

Managing two digital platforms: Concerto, for patients; and MonEspacePRO for city professionals. The Innovation Center develops these platforms in close collaboration with users and our health network partners.

Job Description

The HUG Innovation Center co-develops innovative digital solutions (web and mobile applications) to improve the practice of professionals and the experience of patients. We are looking for a Business Analyst from the IT field, passionate about digital health challenges, to strengthen our team.

As the interface between business needs (caregivers, doctors, researchers, patients) and technical teams, you intervene throughout the product lifecycle, from design to deployment. You contribute to creating innovative e-health solutions, particularly around Concerto and MonEspacePRO, ensuring a functional vision consistent with institutional expectations and user needs. You manage several developments in parallel while maintaining a transversal vision.

Your mission is to analyze and translate business needs into functional and technical specifications, plan and prioritize requirements according to IT standards, and write specifications and necessary documentation. You work closely with developers and experts in an agile mode, ensuring the quality of deliverables and facilitating problem resolution. You propose functional improvements, anticipate evolutions, contribute to product strategy, and imagine digital or organizational solutions to optimize health processes.

You participate in functional validation, support solution deployment, and coordinate users and stakeholders. You also contribute to project monitoring — budgets, reporting, steering committees — and their internal and external visibility.

Joining our team means evolving in a stimulating environment at the heart of digital health innovation, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams (APPS & UX, Cyberhealth and telemedicine, communication, medical and care management, external partners), and contributing to high-impact projects for professionals and patients, within a collaborative and solution-oriented work culture.

Qualifications

You hold a higher education degree in computer science (engineering school, HES or equivalent), have knowledge in project and IT architecture, and a keen interest in digital health.

Your additional training in BA is an asset and allows you to easily handle its principles and methods such as SWOT analysis, PESTEL, activity diagrams, functional mapping, WBS, mind mapping, BPMN.

You master Jira and Confluence and know how to create stories, epics, and manage a development backlog to monitor and report.

You master writing clear and complete specifications. You have a synthesis and abstraction mindset.

You know and can implement the tools necessary for analyzing, formalizing, and evaluating business needs.

You have at least 3 years of experience in a similar role.

You have a strong interest in health innovation fields.

You have perfect oral and written French skills as well as good writing ability. More broadly, you are curious to explore the latest technical and technological trends in BA, which you communicate effectively to development teams, innovation teams, and business teams. You demonstrate autonomy, precision, rigor, and deliver quality outputs. You communicate smoothly on the progress of your activities.

You possess excellent organization, developed interpersonal skills, great listening ability, and good interpersonal skills.

Your solution-oriented attitude allows you to efficiently manage requests and unforeseen events while actively participating in team life and embodying the image of the Innovation Center.

You can handle workloads or exceptional situations. You have composure and responsiveness to manage incidents as well as good stress resistance. Evolving in a continuously transforming environment, you demonstrate great adaptability to meet the challenges presented according to the Innovation Center's current situation.

Moreover, your good humor makes you an asset to join the Innovation Center team.

Additional Information

• Start date: to be agreed
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 80% to 100%
• Job class: under evaluation (depending on profile and education level)
• Contract: 18-month fixed-term, renewable
• Application deadline: 10.04.2026
• Contact for information: centre.innovation@hug.ch

Your application file must include a letter demonstrating your motivation, your CV, copies of diplomas and certificates required for the position, and the last 2 work certificates.

This announcement is addressed equally to women and men.

Wishing to engage in the fight against unemployment, HUG encourages applications coming from the Cantonal Employment Office.

Only applications submitted via the recruitment platform will be considered. Paper and email applications will not be processed.