Senior Business Analyst

Pleased to be supporting a high profile global brand, based in the Midlands in their search for a permanent Senior Business Analyst. This is paying up to £75,000 base + fantastic benefits.

To support the growth of this modern, high-impact practice you will be highly customer focused, bringing extensive BA experience in IT delivery, as well as bringing a consulting approach to problem-solving, with the ability to influence, challenge, and co-create with clients.

You will build stakeholder relationships at all levels, deliver strategic IT solutions, provide expert guidance in complex, client-facing environments and further develop our business.

Your role

- Lead both face to face and virtual client workshops, managing stakeholders with differing priorities to reach agreed requirements
- Take an evidence-based approach, i.e. using data to inform, and where necessary constructively challenge, decisions, ensuring that the right outcome is reached.
- Work with ambiguity, bringing clarity and cutting through complexity.
- Work closely with Solution Architects, Product Managers, User Experience Designers, whilst also understanding how to work effectively with other disciplines to deliver an end-to-end solution which meets clients' requirements.
- Understand industry trends, look for new opportunities for work within your projects, contribute to bid proposals and drive innovation which will increase client value e.g., use of Generative AI to enhance business processes.
- Take responsibility for leading Business Analysis on complex projects, often in high pressure situations, role modelling professional behaviours to colleagues.
- Have people management responsibilities, driving improvements across the BA profession, actively supporting the development and career progression of other BAs

Your skills and experience

- Working on user-centred product or service development projects.
- Working in a technical environment. Comfortable working closely with solution architects and other technical subject matter experts supporting technical requirements.
- Identifying and developing business opportunities with clients.
- Supporting and developing other BAs through activities such as people management and mentoring
- Working on projects in the Public Sector or other legislative driven sectors such Utilities, Energy or Pharmaceutical
- Incorporating a sustainability mindset into solutions

And the ability to:

- Influence strategy and leadership direction within complex engagements
- Become a domain expert in the field in which you are working
- Understand the architecture and the technologies being used to deliver a solution.
- Work with low level detail, as well as holistically, driving the strategy and seeing the bigger picture.
- Build collaborative stakeholder relationships with a range of colleagues and clients up to the most senior level.
- Become a trusted advisor to our clients, providing coaching where necessary