Business Analyst

STRABAG; Manchester; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Part time

Job summary

STRABAG in Manchester is seeking a skilled Business Analyst to lead project and division level requirements, identify gaps, and drive process optimisation. This four-day-a-week role focuses on delivering data-driven improvements across teams in a dynamic environment.

You will facilitate workshops with stakeholders, translate complex challenges into scalable solutions, and help shape delivery roadmaps and executive dashboards to support strategic insights.

Qualifications

• Business analysis or related certification.
• Significant business analysis experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Self-Starter, goal oriented, able to plan and prioritise workloads and hit the ground running.
• Experience of working with BAs and procurement teams, requirements analysis and process improvement.
• Proficient in Project Management, Agile, Risk management.
• Awareness of ISO27001 and Data Protection Act.
• AI platforms and workflows (desired, not required).

Responsibilities

• Lead project and division level business requirements activities, proactively identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for process optimisation.
• Facilitate and lead workshops with stakeholders at all levels, fostering informed debate, alignment, and data-driven decision-making.
• Ensuring clarity of objectives and manage competing priorities.
• Translate complex business challenges into scalable, future-proof solutions.
• Create compelling business cases to demonstrate value.
• Act as a trusted advisor and senior liaison between business owners, stakeholders, and technology teams.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with business users, SMEs, delivery teams, and suppliers.
• Working closely with cross-functional and software deployment teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Own end-to-end solution validation, leading UAT strategy, risk identification, and quality assurance.
• Drive the development of structured delivery roadmaps and implementation plans in partnership with business leaders.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives by analysing workflows, identifying bottlenecks, and recommending automation or process redesign opportunities.
• Lead the design and enhancement of executive dashboards and reporting frameworks.
• Establish reporting standards and act as the escalation point for complex analytical requests.
• Support adoption of new systems, processes, and ways of working.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Self-starter

Project management

Agile

Risk management

ISO27001 awareness

Data Protection Act awareness

AI platforms

Education

Business analysis certification

Job description

• Lead project and division level business requirements activities, proactively identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for process optimisation.
• Facilitate and lead workshops with stakeholders at all levels, fostering informed debate, alignment, and data-driven decision-making.
• Ensuring clarity of objectives and manage competing priorities.
• Translate complex business challenges into scalable, future-proof solutions.
• Create compelling business cases to demonstrate value.

Tasks

• Lead project and division level business requirements activities, proactively identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for process optimisation.
• Facilitate and lead workshops with stakeholders at all levels, fostering informed debate, alignment, and data-driven decision-making.
• Ensuring clarity of objectives and manage competing priorities.
• Translate complex business challenges into scalable, future-proof solutions.
• Create compelling business cases to demonstrate value.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor and senior liaison between business owners, stakeholders, and technology teams, helping stakeholders to come to agreement over competing demands.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with business users, subject matter experts (SMEs), delivery teams, and suppliers.

Delivery

• Working closely with cross-functional and software deployment teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Own end-to-end solution validation, leading UAT strategy, risk identification, and quality assurance to ensure outputs exceed business expectations.
• Drive the development of structured delivery roadmaps and implementation plans in partnership with business leaders, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

Business Improvement

• Champion continuous improvement initiatives by analysing workflows, identifying bottlenecks, and recommending automation or process redesign opportunities, mapping as-is and to-be processes.
• Critically assess existing documentation, systems, and interfaces to drive standardisation, improved governance, and enhanced operational efficiency.
• Lead the design and enhancement of executive dashboards and reporting frameworks to support performance monitoring and strategic insights.
• Establish reporting standards and act as the escalation point for complex analytical requests, ensuring timely and high-quality insight delivery.
• Support adoption of new systems, processes, and ways of working.

Please note, this role is working 4 days a week in our Manchester city centre.

Qualifications

• Business analysis or related certification.
• Significant business analysis experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Self-Starter, goal oriented, able to plan and prioritise workloads and hit the ground running.
• Experience of working with BAs and procurement teams, requirements analysis and process improvement.
• Proficient in Project Management, Agile, Risk management.
• Awareness of ISO27001 and Data Protection Act.
• AI platforms and workflows (desired, not required).