Business Analysis Manager

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

A Business Analysis Manager manages business analysis process. Responsible for delivery of analysis reports and products to internal and external stakeholders. May supervise Business or Management Analysts.

Job Outlook

There were 162 Business Analysis Manager job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 5259 in the United States.

In combination with other careers in the Business / Management Analyst industry, which includes the Business Analysis Manager career, the following graph shows the number of people employed for each year since 2016:

Salary

Many new Business Analysis Manager jobs have salaries estimated to be in the following ranges, based on the requirements and responsibilities listed in job postings from the past year.

National

The average estimated salary in the United States for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $121,638.

State

The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $126,868.

Percentiles represent the percentage that is lower than the value. For example, 25% of estimated salaries for Business Analysis Manager postings in the United States in the past year were lower than $104,190.

Education and Experience

Posted Business Analysis Manager jobs typically require the following level of education. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list education requirements.

Education Level	Percentage
Associate's Degree	0%
Bachelor's Degree	78.15%
Master's Degree	31.22%
Doctoral Degree	2.3%
Other	2.68%

Posted Business Analysis Manager jobs typically require the following number of years of experience. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Years of Experience	Percentage
0 to 2 years	6.09%
3 to 5 years	52.26%
6 to 8 years	31.73%
9+ years	9.92%

Skills

Below are listings of the most common general and specialized skills Business Analysis Manager positions expect applicants to have as well as the most common skills that distinguish individuals from their peers. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is also listed.

Baseline Skills

A skill that is required across a broad range of occupations, including this one.

Leadership (59.4%)
Communication (56.91%)
Management (49.8%)
Operations (33.18%)
Problem Solving (30.33%)
Decision Making (28.71%)
Presentations (24.74%)
Planning (24.19%)
Influencing Skills (22.19%)
Microsoft Excel (21.3%)

Defining Skills

A core skill for this occupation, it occurs frequently in job postings.

Project Management (33.09%)
Data Analysis (42.96%)
SQL (Programming Language) (42.05%)
Business Process (19.61%)
Finance (28.93%)
Business Intelligence (32.21%)
Business Requirements (20.06%)
Business Analysis (29.65%)
Dashboard (35.51%)
Tableau (Business Intelligence Software) (30.01%)
Agile Methodology (14.33%)

Necessary Skills

A skill that is requested frequently in this occupation but isn’t specific to it.

Business Analytics (30.2%)
Power BI (26.88%)
Process Improvement (18.29%)
Computer Science (16.19%)
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (20%)
Statistics (19.32%)
Marketing (16.92%)
Workflow Management (10.65%)
Business Strategies (12.2%)
Data Visualization (18.73%)
Python (Programming Language) (19.3%)
Continuous Improvement Process (12.71%)
Scrum (Software Development) (6.46%)
Automation (12.71%)
Business Decisions (11.5%)
Accounting (8.86%)
Economics (12.07%)
Data Modeling (11.63%)
Business Problems (6.52%)
User Story (4.58%)
Requirements Elicitation (7.37%)
Systems Development Life Cycle (5.76%)
JIRA (5.76%)
Change Management (7.92%)
Business Operations (9.39%)
User Acceptance Testing (UAT) (4.36%)
R (Programming Language) (12.73%)
Data Warehousing (8.57%)
SAS (Software) (7.96%)
Financial Analysis (7.66%)

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is listed.

Business Analysis (100%)

Alternative Job Titles

Sometimes employers post jobs with Business Analysis Manager skills but a different job title. Some common alternative job titles include:

Analytics Manager
Business Intelligence Manager
Business Analytics Manager
Lead Business Analyst
Business Analytics Lead
Project Manager/Business Analyst
Business Insights Analyst
Business Systems Analysis Manager
Reporting Analyst
Business Intelligence Reporting Analyst

Similar Occupations

If you are interested in exploring occupations with similar skills, you may want to research the following job titles. Note that we only list occupations that have at least one corresponding NC State Online and Distance Education program.

Common Employers

Here are the employers that have posted the most Business Analysis Manager jobs in the past year along with how many they have posted.

United States

CVS Health (227)
T-Mobile US (154)
PNC (147)
Walmart (139)
Lumen Technologies (114)
Lincoln Financial Group (111)
PricewaterhouseCoopers (104)
Carrington (100)
Confluent (95)
Humana (83)

North Carolina

Cisco (8)
Wells Fargo (7)
CVS Health (6)
Royal Bank of Canada (6)
PricewaterhouseCoopers (5)
Truliant Federal Credit Union (4)
TD Bank (4)
USAA (4)
Lincoln Financial Group (4)
Launch Potato (4)

NC State Programs Relevant to this Career

If you are interested in preparing for a career in this field, the following NC State Online and Distance Education programs offer a great place to start!

All wages, job posting statistics, employment trend projections, and information about skill desirability on this page represents historical data and does not guarantee future conditions. Data is provided by and downloaded regularly from Lightcast. For more information about how Lightcast gathers data and what it represents, see Lightcast Data: Basic Overview on Lightcast's Knowledge Base website.

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