Business Analysis & Change Lead

QinetiQ Group plc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible/Hybrid working options

Performance bonus

Company bonus

Pension matched 1.5x up to 10.5%

AXA group medical cover

Personal training budget

Holiday buy-back scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Car benefit scheme

Job summary

Naimuri in Greater Manchester seeks a skilled business analyst/change manager to join an established analysis community. You will work closely with software development and data science teams, gathering and managing requirements, supporting delivery, and leading acceptance testing to ensure benefits are realised.

You will contribute to risk assessment, change management, communications with stakeholders, and the embedding of new services to maximise value across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Eliciting and analysing requirements - both functional and non-functional.
• Ensuring that customer requirements and priorities are accurately documented.
• Organising and prioritising requirements using techniques such as product roadmaps, epics, user stories and backlogs.
• Generating and defining options.
• Engaging with relevant stakeholders and specialists.
• Evaluating options for financial, technical and business feasibility.
• Developing a business change implementation plan to identify required changes to processes, procedures, systems, structures and ways of working.
• Using a structured process and set of tools for leading people through change.
• Implementing organisational business change management practices to support iterative/agile working.
• Engaging with, and tailoring communication to, stakeholders and everyone impacted by the change.
• Monitoring the impact of the business change management plan and sustaining and embedding change.
• Identifying, classifying and prioritising risks - their impact and probability, and mitigation actions.
• Ensuring the customer is ready to operate the new service when it has been deployed.

Responsibilities

• Eliciting and analysing requirements - both functional and non-functional.
• Ensuring that customer requirements and priorities are accurately documented.
• Organising and prioritising requirements using techniques such as - but not limited to - product roadmaps, epics, user stories and backlogs.
• Generating and defining options.
• Engaging with relevant stakeholders and specialists.
• Evaluating options for financial, technical and business feasibility.
• Developing a business change implementation plan to identify required changes to processes, procedures, systems, structures and ways of working.
• Using a structured process and set of tools for leading people through change.
• Implementing organisational business change management practices to support iterative/agile working.
• Engaging with, and tailoring communication to, stakeholders and everyone impacted by the change.
• Monitoring the impact of the business change management plan and sustaining and embedding change.
• Identifying, classifying and prioritising risks - their impact and probability, and mitigation actions.
• Ensuring the customer is ready to operate the new service when it has been deployed.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Agile testing

Benefits management

Risk assessment

Acceptance testing

Hybrid work

Job description

Naimuri in Greater Manchester seeks a skilled business analyst/change manager to join an established analysis community. You will work closely with software development and data science teams, gathering and managing requirements, supporting delivery, and leading acceptance testing to ensure benefits are realised.

You will contribute to risk assessment, change management, communications with stakeholders, and the embedding of new services to maximise value across the organisation.